I think your a bit wrong there, Deus Ex as a differant style of FPS, and so was Normality and realms of the haunting.

But doom 3 does rock thou.

hl2 is an obviouse buy but as far as fps go i know there all the same but CS was something different it to the fps game 2 a different dimention... not just running arround corridoors which u think  u controll your direction but actually u dont

im really thinking of getting FFXI

the only problem with games like SWG is that it often takes soooooooooo log to get into the ga,e, eg richie is still probably killing nothing stonger than butterflies at the moment. The only other thing that I think is wrong with it is the mission system, theyre all essentially identical which therefore makes them rather boring.

The same COULD be said of CS however the number of connotations of CS rounds and gameplay make it more interesting. In CS literraly ANYTIHNG could happen, depending on who you're playing against any 2 rounds will never EVER be the same whereas you know with SWG youll go out, find the base, kill the 2-3 defenders, shoot the base once, kill the next 2 defenders, shoot the base again, kill the last defender then blow up the base, over and over, and on, and on, and on and ariston (old skool ads baby!)....

The real interest for me would be trading and flying ships etc however to get to that level of gameplay you ahve to go through about 6 months of killing butterflies...

wrong wrong and wrong , for a start you automatically say missions and killing , swg isnt just about that , and there are very very varied and diverse missions from entertainer missions were u have to perform "gigs" to bounty hunter missions which involve sending imperial searcher droids out then traveling to wAypoints in order to try and find your "bounty", then theres simply delivery missions for cash or indeed the destroy missions , theres quest were u have to search caves for items , then theres pvp player versus player, a hole new set of rules and different pvp moves and rules , then theres the crafting experiance  making anything from dress slippers to wookie armour to guild halls and hospitals , theres surveying for resources theres image design for makeup , tattoo, hair design , theres creating foods via the chef profession to sell on a vendor , there politics , learning to set yup your own guild or town/city , you will soon be able to be a fighter pilot in your own space craft , you can be a smuggler who slices peoples weapons and armour for cash , theres creature handler ,were u learn to capture and tame wild creatures then train them and sell them on as pets or combat helpers. etc etc i could go on n on theres loads more you can do in SWG , ive not even mentioned the jedi prof which is yet another completly different ball game to normal play . Anyhu boring it aint , some parts can be a little samey but its so diverse you can simply do somat else while you have a break from grinding xp , go shopping visit the games Points Of Interest etc etc.

Faee did a trading prof in about a week with no shooting anything , she had her own shop with a little monetery help as i said before you dont have to stand there "shooting butterflies". you can shoot rabbits , meatlump baffoons , sharnaffs (well i can) gubbers (froglike things) snakes , dragons , lizards , jawas, tuskan raiders etc etc

SWG ROXS........