My favourite game genre is first person shooter. Nothing beats shooting baddies through the eyes of your avatar. There is one annoying trend in the fps worlds - aliens. So many great first person shooters just boil down to fighting aliens. I hate fighting aliens, I much prefer killing humanoids or androids. Ok, that didn’t come out right, but you get my point. The main reason why I hate aliens in fps is it blends a perfectly good fps with the horror genre. Look, if I wanted to play a horror game, I would go a buy one - but stop messing with my first person shooters!

There are some exceptions like the Half-Life and Doom series. In these games you expected aliens. But there are some offenders that have tricked me by first introducing humanoids, and then switching to aliens. Red Faction, System Shock, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (here I lump the undead in with the aliens) are all games that I started playing and loved, right up until the aliens showed up.

I don’t understand why we don’t have more android in first person shooters. I would much rather unplug the enemy than step on them.