Lars, of course billard balls don’t shoot back, if you hit them with a lame stick. Use some real weapons, and they’ll probably shoot back. Try some rocket launcher.

To me, the best shooter is the original QuakeWorld TeamFortress. Screw non-Linux-supporting modern stuff like counterstrike. It’s boring.

I think I never played any shooter beyond Quake3, actually. That one didn’t care about being “realistic” (which sucks) but was about fun and arcade.

Oh, make sure you don’t install sgt-puzzles. Best make any local packages of yours (say… your self-compiled kernel with suspend2) conflict with it. It’s just a couple of tiny games, with very simple rules. But they totally take over your mind.