Preferably non-PC. If you do list a PC game, then list a non-PC game too please. (for me)
My greatest online experience has been SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 1 on the PSP. It's probably the few online games that I could play every day for months (Years) at a time. I would play this game whenever I went to the bathroom. The game is awesome. When you win a game with a team, you know you did something right. When you lose, you know you did something wrong (like taking a bad route, rushing in without back-up, etc.).
There were tons of hackers. I would say about 1 in 5 games had hackers or glitchers, however I still came in game after game to play more and more. It was that Awesome. I don't play it much today because there are about 30 people playing at a time (mostly hackers).
SOCOM offers something that other games can't match (Uncharted, Gears of War, Call of Duty). I don't know what it is, but if I had to guess. I would say that the maps were the main reason why online was so awesome.The game is Fucking Awesome.
I think that's the main reason I can't play too much of games like Uncharted or Gears online. The levels are poorly designed IMO. Two Reasons. 1.) they were too small and 2.) there was cover everywhere. You could move two steps, take cover, take two steps, take cover, etc. With SOCOM there wasn't much cover and if you wanted to get from your base to your enemies base, you and you're team would have to carefully plan a careful route to get there. Long Story short, The maps were awesome. Oh and Stealth was also important in SOCOM.
I love playing Suppression with no respawn or playing captive.
I'm SUPER HYPED for SOCOM 4. The gameplay looks completely dissimilar to past SOCOM's but I'm still buying it. If Zipper keeps making those awesome maps, then I'm sure I'll love it. If SOCOM played like Uncharted 2 and had the same maps from SOCOM FTB1, then, I'm pretty sure I'd love it.
I haven't played any of the SOCOM's on the PS2, but I hear those are the best. I played SOCOM: Confrontation (PS3), however, I still need to play more of it.
I want to buy FTB2 & FTB3 but I'm afraid there won't be many people playing. Does anyone own either of those games?
I'm hoping Sony makes a SOCOM game for the PSP2, I'd buy one. SOCOM needs more Love everywhere.
And Left 4 Dead 2 would take my #2 spot. It's always fun to sneak on people with that lizard thing and catch them with your tongue.
Bad Company 2 is awesome too!