Nothing really plays like Goldeneye anymore just due to the fact that it was built around not have a second analog stick to aim, but let's see.....best I can come up with that doesn't focus on those things....
No One Lives Forever
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Borderlands
Bioshock
Tribes: Ascend
Planetside 2
Far Cry
Rainbow Six
Team Fortress 2
Unfortunately Perfect Dark HD didn't come to PC
Anyone planning on buying Life is Strange?
The trailer gives me a bit of that "hipster indie teenager" vibe that i dont like.
But it looks very interesting and i will certainly pick it up.
The trailer gives me a bit of that "hipster indie teenager" vibe that i dont like.
But it looks very interesting and i will certainly pick it up.
Far Cry 1 in Wine. Pretty good shooter (not the most modern though). Until recently there was an issue with it segfaulting, but it was fixed in the 3.18 kernel and was supposed to get backported to 3.16. But I didn't actually try if it works now in Debian out of the box. I'll try installing it again. There is a workaround for it with a small patch module and modprobe in case the kernel didn't get the fix yet.
Bioshock is good, but it has mutants (not zombies at least).
Deus Ex is very good, but not recent at all.
Far Cry 1 is also available on GOG. It actually has some inner DRM removed, unlike the Steam version (I don't mean Steam DRM, some in game copy protection stuff which confuses debuggers). Wine developers pointed it out when trying to hunt down the segfault bug. They did it using GOG version, because Steam one was obfuscating the execution.
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Also I'd highly recommend VtM Bloodlines. Not exactly a shooter (RPG really) but it can have a lot of FPS style action if the player wishes to. Similar to Deus Ex in this aspect (i.e. often gives an option to use stealth vs brutal force and etc.). Getting it DRM-free requires buying a disk and removing disk querying however. Wesp's community patch is a must if your wife would decide to play it. It works in Wine very well.
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WITHOUT zombies or demons or monsters? Well, Far Cry is out. So's Bioshock and Borderlands. The excellent Vampire Bloodlines should be played by everyone always, but you -are- the monster in that, sooo...yeah..
Call of Duty series is monster and zombie free - the latest is pretty good, Modern Warfare 1 is very good and whichever one features the battle crossing the river at Stalingrad is a classic.
Alpha Protocol has no zombies or monsters and is an RPG-FPS/TPS. Quite good.
I liked Watch Dogs, but I'm in the minority. It's pretty modern though.
Hard Reset is generally thought well of.
Deus Ex Human Revolution someone else mention..it's another one we should all play. Because Cyberpunk 2077 is coming and I want you to see how much better it will be. And I love DXHR.
Sleeping Dogs is very good.
I liked the new Tomb Raider.
Arma 2 and ArmA 3 are both good, but complex.
Too bad about the monsters thing - STALKER, Call of Pripyat and Metro 2033 are all very good to superb.
Ah, and I forgot to mention that in a few places it has zombies... Lots of zombies actually, and a character named Romero ;D
Thanks @Sardukhar. Some of my recent favorite FPSs include the Metro series and Shadow Warrior 2013, but those would be out of the question. She has seen both and we both actually like horror but she wants to shoot plain old humans 
Alpha Protocol did come to mind as well as DXHR, both of which I played sometime ago.
Thanks everybody for the suggestions!
Alpha Protocol did come to mind as well as DXHR, both of which I played sometime ago.
Thanks everybody for the suggestions!
Well, if she's really after a shooter, I'd be careful with Alpha Protocol. The gunplay is not really on par with a Shooter.
Just Cause 2 if she likes it over the top, doesn't care much for story and wants to have a blast while blasting things.
Max Payne 3 (or the first ones if they're recent enough) if TPS is okay and she likes Film Noir'escque stories.
The latest Tomb Raider, again TPS but a great game, imo.
Transformers: War for Cybertron / Fall of Cybertron - if she's into the G1 Transformers at all or at least might like it.
Fallout 3/NV or Mass Effect if you want to push her towars RPGs.
Call of Juarez 1 and 2 for classic Western feeling.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (which includes the first game, Escape from Butcher Bay) - has a rather short passage of mutants though.
Just Cause 2 if she likes it over the top, doesn't care much for story and wants to have a blast while blasting things.
Max Payne 3 (or the first ones if they're recent enough) if TPS is okay and she likes Film Noir'escque stories.
The latest Tomb Raider, again TPS but a great game, imo.
Transformers: War for Cybertron / Fall of Cybertron - if she's into the G1 Transformers at all or at least might like it.
Fallout 3/NV or Mass Effect if you want to push her towars RPGs.
Call of Juarez 1 and 2 for classic Western feeling.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (which includes the first game, Escape from Butcher Bay) - has a rather short passage of mutants though.
Third person shooters Rogue Trooper (GOG) and the Punisher are pretty good. Alpha Protocol is fine if you know its kinks, assault rifles special move is broken, I just use it for sniping with subsonic rounds, for everything else I use the pistol, its chain shot ability is fantastic and a bit op. CQC is pretty good as well, just don't try it with Brayko.
It appears Star Citizen is starting to look more like an actual game instead of just random bits and pieces:
That looks pretty good, though it's mostly footage from other trailers put together.
I can't believe that this is a Mount and Blade mod!
Oh, and here's the moddb page:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/laigle
Oh, and here's the moddb page:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/laigle
Like there's something off about it and you can't put your finger on why? Yeah I get that as well, I don't know why though.
SC feels more like a pipe dream to me. Too good to be true. Too ambitious and massive for its own good.
We'll see in a few years. But I'm not gonna board the hype train on this one. Hopefully it'll turn out okay.
I backed Star Citizen when it was on Kickstarter simply because they were trying something new and ambitious. The past few years (decade?) I've been a bit burnt out on gaming because every new release seems like something I've already done a hundred times before. In a way Star Citizen is already a success simply because so many people have supported it and it has generated more funds from crowdfunding than any other game. I think developers need to see that interest exists for something new; that people will support such endeavors. Here's hoping that the dev team behind it can pull it off and create something worth playing so that it can be successful as an actual game too!
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So long as it keeps Chris Roberts from making any more movies, then it's righteous.