@Zucas
Half Life 2 (and the 2 Episodes, especially 2) is the best FPS EASILY!
But it is obvious that either you haven't played many FPSs or you are just biased against the genre and you keep bashing top games of the genre and confuse about what a FPS or a shooter is just for the sake of it.
Every experienced FPS or shooter gamer knows that there is not so much in common between Gears and Half Life, between RE4 and Halo, between Mass Effect and Doom 3 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein, between Quake and System Shock.
I've been playin FPSs since the original Doom and I still think that as long as Half Life 2 is the best FPS ever made, Gears of War (the first one cause I didn't try the second part yet, it waits me in my room wrapped in plastic) is the best TPS.
What's the difference? The lovers of the genre know. Believe me.
Unfortunately, despite the fact I totally agree with your conclusion, your opinion that "in shooters you shoot things so they are all the same genre" is almost not worth commenting on.
