Jerykk wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 00:49:

You really can't pick a sub-genre (or worse, sub-sub-genre in modern day military shooters) that is, in it's very nature restricted to realistic locales for conflict and then complain in any justifiable manner that there's not enough variety in that sub-genre.

The problem is that the modern military sub-genre is dominating the shooter genre as a whole. Even when games are made that have different settings (whether it be WW2 or sci-fi), the actual gameplay mechanics and level design generally remain unchanged. Killzone, for example, is basically CoD with space Nazis. We occasionally get a shooter that introduces new gameplay mechanics or design approaches, like Bioshock or Bulletstorm, but these are sadly few and far between.

I guess my biggest issue with modern shooters is that the gameplay is almost always the same. Cover-based, hitscan weapons, pseudorealistic damage models (i.e. headshots). I'd love to see more shooters with run 'n gun gameplay and a variety of genuinely unique weapons that require completely different skillsets to master. More interesting traversal mechanics would be nice too. TF2 is really the only game that fills that role right now, though Prey 2 has potential.