i've never been into gaming, but would like to start. Any ideas on which game i should start with? I'm into more war type action movies. So maybe COD?
Call of Duty and Medal of Honor WWII series games were great! I don't care too much for modern warfare because the technology does too much of the fighting for you. You can't beat running around taking panzerfaust pot shots at the rear of a Tiger I until you bring it down. No laptop to call in a Smartbomb in that era! Same with combat flight sims- give ne a propellor and an iron gunsite! If you go that MOH/COD WWII route I would recommend using Steam to get them because a few you have to do things with files, etc to get them to work right. I forget which one but it looks for a specific PhysX driver even if you don't have a card. If you don't uninstall whatever driver you have and install what the game wants it just hangs. I had that happen with XP SP3.
Airborne and Pacific Assault also had some install issues with Windows 7 from my disks. I just went to Steam where there were still plenty cheap and just worked!
A few others are Battlefield 1942 and the expansion packs Secret Weapons and there was another as well. Brothers in Arms were good but some of the squad command -you command a 5 man squad in those- was a bit clumsy and the artificial intelligence is more artificial questionable actions at times. Company of Heroes is a WWII based strategy game where you can play as armor, airborne, or infantry and is one of the very few such games I like.
Another series is called Theater of War which is sort of like Battlefield in the way it plays. Those are also available from Steam.
If you like action/adventure shooters beyond straight military the STALKER series is great! If you get them, Clear Sky is a bit buggy so make sure you download the patches. At a site called DBmod -dot- com look for the 'Stalker 2009 Complete mod' for Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky. They are superb improvements and I have played them both multiple times and the WORK! Another great mod for Shadow of is called the Oblivion Lost Mod. The last one, Call of Pripyat is very stable and a bit different- different story line, different area, different character, and somewhat different game-play. There should be another 'Complete Mod' by now for it I would think. Another is supposed to be out sometime in 2012.
The Half Life series was also pretty good although later games seem to have the devs getting lazy and way overusing enemy creatures, especially ant lions, and the story line gets pared way down. Still, even the very first on holds its own. There was a Half Life 2 and then what were supposed to be periodic short additions called 'Episodes' released periodically. A few were released but then stopped. I think the shift of focus away from Dr. Gordon Freeman who was always the main character to the daughter of a scientist who played a minor role early on lost a lot of players.
Anyway- that's a few suggestions for ya!