What started life at Valve as a military shooter based on a Half-Life mod eventually emerged as the cartoon classic half the planet plays today. Team Fortress 2 is one of the greatest free games ever made - a hopelessly addictive, endlessly deep take on the team shooter which never fails to surprise.
Underneath all that bombast and showmanship stands a grand shooter experience. Modern Warfare is one of the most influential games ever made. BioShock may toy with the concepts of choice, but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty action it's about taking apart a lumbering mechanical beast with traps and every last bullet you can scrape together. Imbuing your character with increasingly lethal Plasmids, that include sending deadly bees and cyclones at enemies, adds a tactical layer on top of the tight gunplay.
Everyone stopped moaning when they realised the sequel was significantly better, adding melee weapons, new characters, crossover missions and more. We still play this game. The first-person shooter's first-person shooter. You play Counter-Strike to win, not for fun.
What started as a Half-Life mod has spawned a handful of great sequels and got the creators a job at Valve. This is the mod by which all other mods are measured. You might not play it for raw enjoyment, but you need to play it to understand the basics of how a competitive FPS works. It's not a game; it's an education.
Heroes never die. Overwatch is a shooter where every character feels completely different to play. While Timesplitters 2 might have got there first with character-based shooting where you play the objective, Overwatch cranked it right up and polished the formula to a mirror shine. Everybody has played Doom. Whether it was the violence, the perspective, or the exploration that got you hooked, it's easy to look back now and realise this was never a novelty game.
It's been ported to every format from PC to mobile, and for very good reason: it still stands up as the epitome of first-person shooting. Wolfenstein 3D may have kickstarted the genre, but Doom distilled and refined it to the model that still influences new games to this day. Few games will ever claim to carry the weight of Half-Life 2.
The shooter stretched all the boundaries of physics and storytelling when it released in , and became a precursor to Half-Life 3, the most famous game never made.
You'll never forget your first dabble with the gravity gun or a renewed feeling of confidence as you're joined by Dog. Half-Life 2 is the first-person shooter that changed the rules. Rainbow Six Siege is a shooter built around a gimmick: destruction. Just mute chat, yeah? While Wolfenstein: The New Order has an arguably more varied campaign, Wolfenstein 2 takes the lead because of its angry, angry guns.
Every weapon in Wolfenstein 2 feels powerful, and every shot does terrible damage on scenery and skin alike. While not a traditional first-person shooter, Dishonored 2 is the best immersive sim since Deus Ex. The first-person viewpoint pulls you into its detailed, complex world, and the freedom on offer to approach each objective allows you to play creatively. How many other first-person games let you decapitate a man, place a mine on his severed head, and lob it like a grenade?
It turns out wall-running and double jumps - you know, like in a platforming game - can change multiplayer shooters considerably. Combining two different types of gameplay into one shooter - the stomping mayhem of piloting a mech across the map and the weasel-quick shooting as an on-foot pilot - Titanfall 2 never has a dull moment.
Not only is the online portion of the game fast, frenetic, and fluid, the single-player managed to deliver one of the best campaigns of recent times.
Every mission has a new gimmick or twists to keep you sprinting to the credits. Not only did we finally get a military story with a sense of humour, but this spectacularly idiotic shooter became one of the first games not to over-promise on destruction: it actually worked. Bad Company 2 offered something different to other shooters at the time, placing tactics above twitch skills. Despite the size of its maps, it also had some of the most memorable and varied arenas ever created for an FPS.
It's still the best online shooter ever made. Battlefield 5. Battlefield 5 is probably the best Battlefield game since Bad Company 2. Yes, the union jack face masks were a bit tone-deaf, but you can't deny that Battlefield 5 is an excellent shooter.
You have your single-player War Stories that take you across different theatres of war and place you into different perspectives and a solid multiplayer experience which values tactics and positioning over twitch skills and a keen focus on team-playing and support classes that makes you feel like your role in the team really matters.
It captures the camaraderie described by those who survived through the war, whilst giving you a taste of the horrors that would have ensued on the battlefield. War is hell, after all. Black Ops 4 released in October to rapturous success and introduced the first battle royale mode in the series, Blackout. Blackout is by far the best battle royale mode out there, taking all the best bits from the previous Call of Duty multiplayer modes and creating a map filled with easter eggs, zombies and a collapsing circle.
What else do you really need? It's a much more mature version of the mode popularised by Fortnite and PUBG, and hardcore Call of Duty fans are revelling in how much fun Blackout is to play. Just watch out for that zombie horde when you're searching the Mystery Box. Monster Hunter Rise failed to save bug explained. Monster Hunter Rise best Palico support type and Palico skills.
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Read our editorial policy. So load your gun, go prone, and take aim at the 50 best FPS games. GoldenEye One of the best movie tie-in games of all time, GoldenEye was released during Rare's glory years. Planetside 2 Few games can match what Planetside 2 has to offer - a vast battle across Auraxis with thousands of other players online, where teamwork and skill are essential to winning the war.
Wolfenstein 3D We associate the classic id Software designers - Carmack, Romero, Hall - with Wolfenstein 3D, a widely copied, much-respected and endlessly influential run-and-gun through a distorted view of the Second World War. Perfect Dark Was Perfect Dark a great first-person shooter on the N64, or was it just a decent one that has been elevated because of the Rare brand? Duke Nukem 3D Duke Nukem is an asshole, and that's why this game is remembered more for an idiotic lead character rather than the surprising gameplay subtleties.
Quake Quake changed everything. Mirror's Edge Another game that dared to experiment with the first-person formula with mixed results, Mirror's Edge is more about traversing the environment than it is about planting a headshot. Borderlands 2 The second Borderlands was a force - a honed RPG-shooter that captured many players for many months.
Bulletstorm Why didn't anybody buy this? Dying Light While much of Dying Light is focused around melee and fluid movement, the gunplay isn't to be sniffed at. At the very least it will make for an interesting conversation. Epic Games is known most prominently for Fortnite now, but prior to that they made a big scene on the multiplayer market with the first Unreal Tournament.
That is a free bonus piece of trivia. Unreal Tournament for the PC then was sort of a sequel and an expansion and is well regarded as one of the best in the series let alone one of the best multiplayer shooters of all time. Quake is another famous, or more like infamous multiplayer shooter in PC. By this point it is another footnote in the gaming history landscape.
That is to say it is a series now forgotten among other juggernauts. The first game is still played today though. It is no Fortnite , or Call of Duty , but as is the case with other classics of this era, like Counter-Strike , it still has a dedicated following some twenty years later. This review is for the PS3 version although the Xbox version has the same score.
Anyway this may not have had a better campaign, but it is more renown for being a multiplayer addiction. It improved everything that the first Modern Warfare started and made it better.
This is really when the series took off in a big way. This is another case of multiple versions sharing the same score, which is to say Portal 2 got a 95 on PC, PS3, and Xbox The PC version was first for whatever reason. Calling it a first-person shooter is kind of disingenuous to what this game is actually about.
Those who disagree will be launched into space with Wheatley. One of the earliest multiplayer phenomenons was GoldenEye on the N Epic Games is known most prominently for Fortnite now, but prior to that they made a big scene on the multiplayer market with the first Unreal Tournament.
That is a free bonus piece of trivia. Unreal Tournament for the PC then was sort of a sequel and an expansion and is well regarded as one of the best in the series let alone one of the best multiplayer shooters of all time. Quake is another famous, or more like infamous multiplayer shooter in PC. By this point it is another footnote in the gaming history landscape.
That is to say it is a series now forgotten among other juggernauts. The first game is still played today though. It is no Fortnite , or Call of Duty , but as is the case with other classics of this era, like Counter-Strike , it still has a dedicated following some twenty years later.
This review is for the PS3 version although the Xbox version has the same score. Anyway this may not have had a better campaign, but it is more renown for being a multiplayer addiction. It improved everything that the first Modern Warfare started and made it better. This is really when the series took off in a big way. This is another case of multiple versions sharing the same score, which is to say Portal 2 got a 95 on PC, PS3, and Xbox The PC version was first for whatever reason.
Calling it a first-person shooter is kind of disingenuous to what this game is actually about. Those who disagree will be launched into space with Wheatley.
One of the earliest multiplayer phenomenons was GoldenEye on the N The campaign was good and highlighted great moments from the film, but everyone was more infatuated with playing with friends.
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