Need advice: FPS for a 7 year old

borderlands 2 might be great

The Plants vs Zombies fps, Portal, Serious Sam with the gore turned off, Duke Nukem 3D with family mode, Mirror's Edge

Ehh how about the Borderlands series?
I really enjoyed that one cause it's funny.

I think legos are the best for 7 years old. Back in my days when we used to craft our own toys with wire :)

What about something like Goldeneye Source?

No, just no!
How about a Pokemon or Zelda game or any other Nintendo game?
What's wrong with these games?

Max Payne and Hitman low violence? Nope...

I think Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike using the low violence comand are good. You need to mute everyone in the server, haha.
Also, some Lego games.

Kids are really impressionable, he's probably into FPS because he's seen you playing them or heard about them being cool. In my day the cool games were platformers and beat em ups.

My advice is to give him Sonic/Mario/Rayman something like that, I fucking loved those as a kid(Lion King was the hardest game ever), we used to go in school and show off about progress. Lemmings was another. Then there was Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 doing the rounds! Tomb Raider and Resident Evil came out when I was in my final year of Primary School so I was 11? I remember them causing a bit of a stir when a few lads got hold of copies off brothers and such. That was with blocky, horrible frame rate graphics. I can't begin to imagine what playing Hitman must be like nowadays, I think the parents back then would have exploded.

The age of 7 is still a very impresionistic age. Why the FUCK are you allowing him to play super violent games? What the HELL is WRONG with you?! Give hi something like Minecraft or Terraria. Games that aren't super violent but are still decent for a 7 year old.

Someone should teach you how to be a good and caring parent. Not one that teaches the morals of violence to a child. That's like bringing up the child in a neo-nazi household.He'll learn bad values.

Hatred

or Splatoon

Moorhuhn. Lots of shooting.

When I was 7 yo I played Super Mario Bros... FPS aren't for children.

I know they arent on your list, but have you considered any of the Fallout games? My mom plays about the same as your son (like taking her hand off the mouse to jump and moving with one finger), and shes been binge playing Fallout 3 on very easy mode. Not sure if youd consider the story too dark/scary for him though.

Just give him some good old Serious Sam. I'm sure he'll love it.

Ace Of Spades is better. either the steam paid version or the classic free version at http://buildandshoot.com/

Not shooter. Fast paced game A Story About My Uncle. But as i said it is fast paced maybe he can`t play.

He should definetely play Hatred though.

It's not exactly an FPS, but how about Rez?

Would also recommend Mirror's Edge.

I know you are asking about FPS, but I think a third person game would be easier for a kid. Do you have a controller? Using one instead of k+m is far easier when you are little, cos little hands you know.

A good FPS for your kid would be any of the COD series. I played COD 4 when I was 6 and I played on veteran difficulty fine But if your kid is as "inexperienced" as you said you can just put it on easy and he should be able to play through that game at ease.

Alice is a decent game that isn't all murder, etc... It's dark, but hey, I liked the dark tales, even as a child, so it should be fine... It's not a FPS, but it's good.

Let him try CoD and Medal of Honor series, they're fairly easy and I finished some of them by the time I was 8.

Also some recent FPS's I've finished you might want to check out ;

Alien Rage (kinda hard though, it's actually easy but millions of bugs make it hard)
Bedlam (incredibly well-done old-school)
Wrack
Binary Domain (TPS like Max Payne, might get complicated through the end but gameplay is amazing and simple)
Bulletstorm (BEST FPS I'VE EVER PLAYED)
Call of Juarez Series, Especially Gunslinger(gory though, and might be hard for him I'm not sure)
Crysis 1-2 is fairly easy
Homefront
Sniper Elite V2
Sniper Ghost Warrior 2
Spec Ops The Line

EDIT: Geez, some comments here ... Can you really be that ignorant ? Not all 7 year olds are retarded. And no, he won't turn into a sociopath for playing a gory game. I constantly played Doom, Call of Juarez and Wolfenstein at that age while watching Happy Tree Friends and I turned out fine. I think. I hope.

Original doom =)) Only hardcore =))

Maybe try something turn based (i.e. Legend of Grimrock) or some walking simulators to get (plenty of free ones) or combat-less first person games (Viscera Cleanup Detail) to help him get used to the controls. A controller may also be a good idea as even if he isn't familair with using one, two handed usage will possibly be more natural for him,

Half Life.
If you're going to get him started on FPS, start with a good one.
Then after he's died over and over, you can say "git gud, scrub." It'll build character.

Of course, this is probably why I'm not a parent. :)