What happened to using AI in FPS?

Back in the old days you could pop in your favorite FPS load up with of the maps and choose some AI to battle.....Well they just don't make games that way anymore. The only way to battle the AI is to play the story mode. Why did the gaming industry move away from doing this? I would have loved to load up my favorite halo map and battle against super hard AI that had the same body/height/speed/weaknesses...but they only have AI with different body/height/speed/weaknesses. And I'm not just talking about Halo, I would like in Call of Duty series as well.

And I'm just gonna through a name out there cause I think they had the best AI to play against in FPS............Perfect Dark(N64)....I know it was basically a OO7 remake, but they did enhance the AI quite a bit, it was there way of upgrading and putting a different face on the same basic body.


That is my biggest want these days, an intelligent AI to play against in FPS that will let me change the difficulty levels.

 

I know what you mean, although COD Black Ops has "Combat training" which is the online maps and perks etc against AI, I play it often, it's good fun. I wouldn't recommend playing it on veteran though, basically as soon as they see you.... you're dead. :-D

 

We should get a campaign going for bringing back an offline based AI that you can play against on the same maps as you would in multi-player.

 

The problem is that developing a smart and realistic AI is becoming more and more difficult. We gamers have raised our expectations, and standards have gone up. Simply put, it costs a fortune to develop a skilled AI to play against, especially when compared to the cost of developing a multi-player map where at least in theory the people playing better opponents than AI anyway.

It's all about the money.

 

So sad. I would enjoy an AI so much. Even it it meant a stupid one that moved around and could barely aim. Something that would produce semi random movements that I could try sniping or throwing grenades at for hours without becoming bored and telling me that they would rather do something else like most real players would do.