If you haven't checked it out already, you might wanna check out Lost Planet for the xbox 360. The only reason why I thought I'd recommend it is because I hate first person shooters, I absolutely loath them, but for what it was, being a third person shooter, I really liked the Syphon Filter series, even if the only reason was to use that EMP Tazer and watch all your victims burn to a slow fiery death.
In the case of Lost Planet, they seem to toss in enough variety in order to keep things interesting; you fight snow pirates as well as these monsters called the akrid and you get to jump into these mech suits from time to time and each level ends with a crazy/frustrating boss fight. But overall It progresses in the same linear fashion as Syphon Filter did but with fewer check points.
One thing I thought that was neat about the game is if you toss a grenade and if you're good enough, you can shoot it immediately afterwards and it'll make this splash effect.
Not a lot of people like this game, so this might be right up your alley, who knows.