Best Controls?

Written by 2Three // Filed in General // Viewed 814 times

[February 18, 2009]

game-controls.jpgThere, now that I have your attention, I’m curious which game (or series) you folks think offer the best controls, out of first and third person shooters of course.

I decided against holding a poll for a couple reasons. The first being that I don’t feel like setting another one up. How’s that for honest writing? ;) And second, with this question the answers from each of us could vary so much that it would be really easy for me to leave out someone’s choice in a voting situation.

For me, no game’s controls could compare to GoldenEye for years. But nowadays, I find the controls in the Call of Duty series to be the most comfortable. Other games tend to feel pretty clumsy in my opinion compared to it, with the exception of Halo.

So what gets your pick? It can be from this gen, last-gen… whatever.

*Image courtesy of Spike.com (where else?)

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16 Responses to “Best Controls?”

  • teej says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Halo CE (1) revolutionized 1st person console shooters and brought me back into non-sports gaming. Legacy and their other innovative options did it for me. Bungie is hands down one of the best when it comes to controls.

  • Batian says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    No dout GoldenEye,Halo and Call of Duty Modern Warfare. GoldenEye because it was THE first big shooter for console, Halo cause it bring the level of the shooter game on console closer to those on pc and Call of Duty ModernWafare for inoving with the perk system.

  • Atlantic says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    for some reason, I’m thinking of duke nukem

  • mclovin says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    Halo hands down, COD4 & 5 are good but much prefer aiming in by clicking down the right thumbstick. Timesplitters 3 is up there with Halo, but just misses out in the fact that when you aim in, you are forced to aim completely with the left thumbstick, well with legacy scheme anyway.

  • soulwarrior says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 2:16 am

    For me this would be Resistance I & II, as you had the option to remap every button.

  • Kula says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 5:50 am

    Timesplitters allowed full button customisation and all 4 stick layouts. You could also change the stick layout when you held down the aim button. If we’re talking about default layouts then Halo3 gets a mention. ‘ Green thumb’ is an excellent layout. Melee on the right stick and reload on LB/RB is perfect.

  • darren says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 7:16 am

    COD 4 IMHO is a really comfy feet to it (legacy), nice and ergonomic, and more important, when you go to other games its made them feel ‘not quite right’, the buttons all feel right and well placed.

  • xDark007x says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:52 am

    It’s a tie for me, between Halo and CoD 4 & 5. Both are very comfortable in Legacy, except COD when I lay down. Its nearly impossible to aim down the sights while laying down in legacy

  • darren says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    @ xDark007x
    Here Here

  • 2Three says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Not many major surprises here with GoldenEye, COD and Halo being common choices.

    Resistance… now that was a little unexpected!

  • mitch82cc says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Halo 3 specifically because it introduced Bumper Jumper….the most amazing addition to Legacy controls I’ve ever used. Now I can jump strafe for the first time comfortably. Also it is much easier to pilot the Banshee using LB to roll instead of A. An awesome combination with Legacy controls!

  • SQU1FFY says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 3:37 am

    HALO CE is the moment it all clicked into place and felt so right, there had been others before it (Goldeneye, TUROK and QUAKE II on the N64). But it’s HALO for me, COD 4 hits the nail on the head as well and UNREAL III with it’s fully customizeable controls comes close, but I’m a HALO fan at heart and the BUMPER JUMPER setting on H3 is as close to control nirvana you will get in a FPS.

  • ryan says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    halo 3 and left4dead have been particularly suited for me. I’m not a long time console gamer (started with shooters on pc), but halo 3 has always fit like a glove.

  • Volvagia says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Quake III Arena on the Dreamcast.

    Yes, I know the controller didn’t have 2 joysticks but it allowed you to map ANY function to anything, I mean ANYTHING! If you for some reason wanted to shoot when you hit the joystick right, and jump when you hit it left, you could map it! It is the only console game I know of that has ever offered that much depth of button mapping.
    I usually would play with a legacy control scheme but sometimes I like to play it with the joystick as analog movement and the mouse as aiming, it’s awesome!

  • Doug says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 6:58 am

    Mix of cod4 and halo. x = reload, a = jump, b = melee, right stick = toggle crouch is my favourite setup, no inversion. I had to stop playing FFXII because forced inversion was ruining my play time with other games which didn’t have inversion.

  • ghost1 says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    definitely the COD series on Xbox 360.

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