FPSs really get higher ratings than they deserve if you ask me. I went for years without playing them and have recently come back and I've been severely disappointed by the highly rated games that everyone else has been raving about (Half-life 2 and Bioshock). Bioshock was especially disappointing. The view of Rapture from the outside was amazing, but inside they just had kitschy crap plastered all over the walls and called it an art deco inspired design.
The big problem is that FPSs lack variety. A typical FPS has you spend 2 or 3 hours in environment A fighting 2 or 3 types of enemies, then 2 or 3 hours in environment B fighting 2 or 3 types of enemies, then 2 or 3 hours in environment C fighting a mix of the enemies from environments A and B, and so on and so forth. It just gets so tedious fighting the same things over and over again without any real variety in the setting.
The only game first person series that I've played that breaks away from this is Metroid Prime which has much more elaborate and varied environment designs along with an immense variety of enemies. But we all know that the critics loved Bioshock more than Metroid Prime 3.
Well at least multiplayer FPSs are still fun. I just wish they'd rerelease Tribes 2 using a modern engine with all of the community features fixed. TF2 is the next best thing though.
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