I think the best FPS ever was System Shock 2, It's got FPS, survial Horror, and RPG elemnents. I think the last truely innovative game was Mario 64, that was the game that took us into the 3D era and showed that it could be done. I cannot think of a game that had so many people talking about the future of video games. Grand Theft Auto 3 got a lot too but that game is just a build off of the M64 concept. I'd be surprised if any game comes out in the next 4-5 years that does invent a new game genra that's truely unique. I grew up playing VG, as have most on this site, there's not much I haven't seen. When I was in highschool and freshman in college I bought a LOT of game, easly 20-25 a year then rent another 10 or so a year. Now a rarely rent games and may only buy abouy 10 games a year. A majority of games (weither they be good games or not) just don't intrest me. I've seen it, played it all before and unless there's something realy cool/unique about the game (story, a gameplay element) I don't want to play it. And of those games I buy about 1/4 of them I never finish, which I never use to do. So I think a lot of us are jaded when it comes to games. And that we have to come to grips that there's not going to be these amazeing games like we've never seen before, and look for those ones that take the concepts that we know so well and make a realy good game in all other respects.