Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare vs Planetside 2
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a first-person action-shooter game from the critically-acclaimed Call of Duty franchise that's set in a futuristic and advanced world where soldiers of that era have access to a wide variety of "fun new toys" including powerful exoskeletons, covert cloaking abilities, advanced biomechanics, specialized drones and even a cool hoverbike. The game's strongly story-driven, providing players with a pretty linear path (with a few pockets of freedom) to go through in order to learn more a world that is dominated with private military corporations (PMCs) with largest PMC, Atlas Corporation, in the center of it all.Although Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare offers multiplayer mode, it is basically dead since you'll mainly be matched up with bots rather than actual human players, though if you can get a couple of friends to play the game with you, you might still get a decent multiplayer experience out of it. The game's campaign though is simply amazing - you should definitely check it out.
Planetside 2
Planetside 2 is a sci-fi-themed MMOFPS game that's the explosive sequel to its predecessor, Planetside, which was released back in 2003. In a way, the game is more inclined towards the extravagant and yet is still rather down-to-earth mainly because it features massive battlefields where hundreds to even thousands of players can battle it out for their faction. In fact, the game has an exciting gameplay which may bring to mind the games in the Battlefield franchise albeit the futuristic sort.Not to mention, Planetside 2 has an actual war playing out on the map where players who won a certain battlefield will essentially "claim" the land for their faction. The tug-of-war-like power struggle between factions help to bond the players in a way that resembles the deep rift between the Alliance and the Horde in World of Warcraft. The game is also developed by Daybreak Games which is in pretty good company along the likes of EverQuest 2, DC Universe Online and Lord of the Rings Online.
So, if you're looking for an epic MMOFPS game to fully immerse yourself in, then Planetside 2 is your best bet. If not, there are plenty of other casual shooters out there, but you can definitely expect that none of them can measure up to the faction-vs-faction tension, which usually erupts into another battle, offered in this game.