Whoa - I missed this first time around, so I figure I'll add my $0.02CAN to it.
INF: Beyond the bugs, INF is good once you realize what it is. INF is not an FPS. INF is a simulator. It has more in common with the F22 Lightning series or the earlier MechWarrior games then it does with good old fashioned UT.
INF is for people who read Tom Clancy novels, armchair generals and the like. Because it takes itself seriously as basically a multiplayer conversion of Rogue Spear, it has my grudging respect.
Now, the rest of the other RL mods, especially in all their disgusting lack of variety, annoy the piss out of me. Those ones are for people who are too unimaginative to grasp unreal settings. They're people who just really, really want to run around with a Barett Light .50 and don't actually want to be annoyed with the realism - they just want things to _look_ realistic.
Those people are stupid. I've tried to shirk the issue other ways, but I give up. They're just dumb. They're deliberately trying to fool themselves - they want everything to look realistic, but that's just because they're minds are too bland to actually enjoy an artistic setting. They just want stuff to look familiar.
CounterStrike is popular because there are a bazillion people who want to pretend they're on an anti-terrorist team, but don't actually have the patience for a game that really simulates the experience. These games are not popular for good gameplay - they're popular simply because they're the game the gamers want, regardless of whether or not its fun.
Honestly, some of these pseudo-CS games have a good feel to them - but they're still boring. 60 of the same weapons, endless redundant media - its all so dreadfully dull. The only thing actually interesting I find that they bring to the table is fear. After all, you're essentially playing 1-life Instagib stuck on superslow - its all about panicly trying to insure that nobody has line-of-sight with you. The moment somebody even knows where you are, you're dead. And when you die, you wait. So death is scary.
Still for that appeal, I think the trappings of money and realism are just dumb.
Anyhow - Neme - I still think you get the Tomahawk a bad rap. Personally, as a sniper-hater I find it the ideal replacement for sniper rifles - its got the super-ultra-long reach of the sniper rifle, but none of the annoying gameplay of "lets make it impossible to cross the bridge just 'cause of all the sniper whores!". Face is actually _fun_ with it.