Thanks to whoever recommended Metro 2033.
Lost 2 days to the game and have just got the novel on Kindle. Love it, the station Artyom lives at was my local one twenty years ago.
STW, always comes up trumps!
I’m surprised no mentions of Specs ops the line (OK it’s third person) But it’s got a good story line, it’s a modern military shooter, great playability and looks good too. £20 on Steam at the moment but I’m pretty sure I got it for a tenner a while ago, so it’ll probably come round in an offer of sorts at some point in the near future.
Oh christ, Spec Ops: the line. that one dives straight down the rabbithole.
As above, not an FPS, but a game that takes familiar “america **** yeah!” be the hero fantasy tropes and tears them up in your face in the most savage way imaginable.
The gameplay is solid but unremarkable, the narrative is something else.