# Help me remember the name of a FPS video game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 25, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179 "2013-12-25T22:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/1 "2013-12-25T22:41:47Z")
I’m trying to identify a PC video game that I played about five years ago, but it may be even older than that. It was a pretty famous game, a FPS with lots of levels, and the main weapon was a glove that shot green organic blobs that could bounce around corners and kill enemies. Not much to go on, I know, but any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/2 "2013-12-26T15:37:17Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I’m trying to identify a PC video game that I played about five years ago, but it may be even older than that. It was a pretty famous game, a FPS with lots of levels, and the main weapon was a glove that shot green organic blobs that could bounce around corners and kill enemies. > > Not much to go on, I know, but any help would be appreciated. Rise of the Triad: The Dark War [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e9GZlHmru_8/hqdefault.jpg "Rise of the Triad cheats in action") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GZlHmru_8&t=1m30s) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/3 "2013-12-26T18:44:29Z")
I appreciate the response, but that’s not it. It was more like Half-Life or Unreal in graphics (and I can’t be sure it wasn’t a version of one of those), and the spores the thing shot were definitely green. You could get a bunch of them from certain plants, but they would also slowly regenerate in the gun, so you never completely ran out of ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/4 "2013-12-26T18:51:16Z")
Unreal Tournament 3 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGfaQ3FWr4) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/5 "2013-12-26T18:57:12Z")
Nope, it was a single player game. A little more is coming back to me. The gun or glove or whatever was kind of alive, and during lulls in the action the avatar would stroke it like a kitten. ---
**Author:** ![doverpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@doverpro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doverpro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/6 "2013-12-26T19:08:25Z")
Sounds like one of the Half-Life sequels, maybe Opposing Force. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/7 "2013-12-26T19:22:55Z")
I didn’t play much of it, but it sounds like it could be [Prey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(video_game)). ---
**Author:** ![Peaton\_of\_peat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Peaton\_of\_peat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peaton_of_peat)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/8 "2013-12-26T19:28:30Z")
> [@doverpro](#): > > Sounds like one of the Half-Life sequels, maybe Opposing Force. It’s definitely [Opposing Force](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36S7KwSj_w). That fish gun was easily the best part of the game, although the rest of it wasn’t bad. On sale on Steam right now, I dunno if it’s gone 75% off yet this season though. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-a-fps-video-game/677179/9 "2013-12-26T19:38:59Z")
> [@Peaton\_of\_peat](#): > > It’s definitely [Opposing Force](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36S7KwSj_w). That fish gun was easily the best part of the game, although the rest of it wasn’t bad. On sale on Steam right now, I dunno if it’s gone 75% off yet this season though. YES!! That’s it! For some reason I thought it was a glove, and googling for green spore glove got me millions of hits about gardening, so I couldn’t find it. Thanks very much, Dopers. ETA: And reading about the game, I see that I was conflating it with the hivehand.