Shooter games of 2008

With some shock outcomes, it also introduced a new sense of mortality to our usually superhuman shooter protagonists. While later CODs overplayed the role of NPC buddies and embraced a numbing cacophony, Modern Warfare managed to retain a sombre, fearful quality despite all the explosions and whatnot. It also set the standard for present-day shooter multiplayer, albeit without quite so much focus on unlockable gizmos.

You take on the role of hunters with the express aim of assassinating an AI "boss" tucked away somewhere on the map. Trouble is, there are other squads also attempting to do the same thing. Die and you lose your equipment forever.

Survive, and you'll not only keep your stuff, but get some of the spoils too. That's the tension for you - every single foray into the dark could spell disaster. The audio design's also sterling in Hunt: Showdown too, with gunshots that ring out from miles away, and the clang of chains could help you locate an enemy that's stalking you nearby. Even swapping your weapon or reloading in quiet moments might give away your position.

It's an FPS that's unlike anything out right now. So instead of pistols and shotguns, you've got staffs that belch blue blobs and swords that sling arcs of mana. It's also quite crafty with some of the usual FPS suspects that hinder fluidity nowadays. There's no fall damage and you can breathe underwater without a worry. The focus is entirely on smashing skeletons with your spells, and I like that.

Wipe out enough enemies and you can turn on Soul Mode that'll turn your weapon into a hose of pain. Enemies aren't your usual aliens either, but often strange beings from astral planes. And I appreciate that the environments are dark and dingy like other throwback FPSes, but colourful and riddled with secrets. Alright, yes, you'll need a VR headset for Half Life: Alyx, alongside a powerful enough rig to run it nicely. But, if you've got both of these things, then you're in for a treat.

Graham said in his Half-Life: Alyx review that this is "the Half-Life game you've been waiting for, even if it's not the one you were expecting". And this is because the game's been designed with VR in mind. You're now able to reach out and touch City 17, and the motion control shooting "feels better than Half-Life's combat ever has".

And Half-Life: Alyx embraces horror too, with moments where you're cowering in corners or chucking objects to distract enormous monsters. You're even able to cover your mouth with your actual hand, and have it replicated in-game. It's very much been lifted by VR, and not harmed by it. This could have been the best singleplayer FPS of , if it hadn't been for the new Doom.

Nonetheless, if you want straight-up action thrills with a whole lot of flash, some particularly glorious movement and impressively stressful mech-based boss fights, this is going to make you very happy. And hey, there's a robust soldiers vs giant robo-suits multiplayer mode in there too, building on what the multiplayer-only Titanfall 1 already established. That is, assuming you can find opponents. Titanfall 2 suffered from something of a failure to launch, having resolutely lost the marketing wars of late It may stay alive over time thanks to word of mouth, but even if it doesn't, definitely check it out for that singleplayer campaign.

It is, however, on the brief side, so we strongly recommend playing on Hard difficulty - as well as making it last longer, it makes the mech fights particularly feel that much more satisfying once you finally claim a steel scalp.

Halo has some of the weightiest, most wonderful shooting out there. The story's also not half bad, for those into John and his quest to stop aliens from doing nasty things.

But it's really the action and the moreish multiplayer that'll keep you coming back. And come back you shall. No Halo: 5, should I add, although you can pick that up separately if you'd like. Matchmaking is also smooth, so you'll have no trouble finding other players to tango with if you're feeling competitive.

Few shootybangs feel as fluid as this MMO bullet-hoser. By the barrel of a big energy rifle, that is. Since Destiny was only for console creepers, PC players will have to catch up on the story for this one.

Short version: aliens are bad, shoot them. There are fewer spongey enemies, and a bit more humour and brightness to proceedings.

The story itself is still a bit pants. But this is more about having a gorgeous, free-wheeling target range painted across the solar system than following any grand tale. You have special powers like the ability to swing a ludicrous sword around, or batter multi-limbed baddies with a big electrostomp.

But most players will tell you the fun only starts with the multiplayer raids and dungeons, tough battlehells where teamwork and timing are as important as they are in any classical MMO. Rainbow Six Siege does what Battlefield games have thus far only pretended to do: provide a multiplayer world which is destructible at a granular level. Instead of buildings collapsing when scripted levers are pulled, in Siege almost every door, window, wall, ceiling, and floor can have a hole poked in it via gunshot, grenades, battering rams and breaching charges.

It feels like technical wizardry and the consequences ripple throughout the entire experience, creating tension from the ability to be attacked from any angle, encouraging teamwork through asymmetric missions which force one team to defend themselves against the other's attempt to breach their compound, and forcing traditional Rainbow Six tactical awareness without a planning phase by requiring you to hold a perfect mental map of the building around you at all times.

It's equally impressive for being a team-based multiplayer shooter that feels fresh, offering something different from the Counter-Strikes and Call of Dutys while staying true to the spirit of the Rainbow Six series. A beautiful hellscape of big square pixels against a midnight backdrop, monstrous things looming at you from the darkness, and the dance, the endless dance.

A pure test of everything that first-person shooters ever taught us. Reflex, awareness, movement, practice, true grit and no surrender. It is about your own time and only about your own time, because that is all that matters - everything else that shooters ever added is mere fluff.

Of course. So much is in Half-Life 2, from an unprecedented level of architectural design to facial animation which rendered anything else obsolete overnight, to a physics system which transformed shooter environments from scenery into interactive resource, to some of gaming's most striking baddies in the Striders and a huge step forwards in making AI companions believable and likeable.

It's also a long, changeable journey through a beautifully, bleakly fleshed-out world, and although of course you are on the hero's journey, it's careful to keep you feeling like a bit player in a wider conflict.

That this, plus the cliffhanger ending of Episode 2, left so much more to be told leaves PC gaming in a perpetual state of frustration that the series has, publicly at least, ground to a halt. I don't think all of it is as striking as it once was - particularly, much of the man-shooting feels routine and slightly weightless now - but Half-Life 2 gave us more than any other first-person shooter before, and maybe even since.

Oh my, Apex, what excellent bumslides you have. What solid shootsing you offer. Since its launch Apelegs has added plenty of new characters, new maps, and even a new Arenas mode. It's a solid murder hike every time you dive into Apex Legends, and there really is nothing that matches its pace in the Battle Royale realm. There's no elegant way to put this: Valorant is Counter: Strike but with wizards and ninjas. One team wants to plant a bomb, the other needs to stop this from happening.

By inching around corners, having decent aim, and making strong callouts in the team chat. Patience is rewarded here, as is coordinating with your team to control each map.

If Valorant sounds like Counter: Strike, that's because the gunplay is pretty similar. However, where it differs is in ability usage. In a routine mission, Soldier Ethan Cole must survive a degenerative contamination and find out what is behind everything, which includes events and cases about UFO's and non-terrestrial life covered by the government.

M Action, Adventure, Crime. Black Ops soldier Sgt. Jack Kellar gets interrogated about his actions in the previous four days towards an international weapons-dealing terrorist organization known as "Seventh Wave. Point Man and his deceased brother Paxton Fettel both have supernatural powers and must work together to face off against an evil presence from their past.

Power corrupts companies for defense and Shadow Warrior Lo Wang discovers Master Zilla's plan to take over Japan, using creatures summoned from the dark side. A man of honor, Lo Wang quit, only to be Zilla's next target. Action, Adventure, Comedy. Lo Wang, a top hit man for the Zilla Corporation, is trying to retrieve an ancient sword during a demon invasion.

T Action, Adventure, War. You play as three different Allied nations: the Americans, the British, and the Russians. From to , you must answer the call of duty and defeat the domination-bent Germans. Votes: 6, T Action, War. T Action, Adventure, Fantasy. You guide mercenary Kyle Katarn, who must stop the evil plot of a renegade Jedi by relearning his skills as a Jedi Knight.

Joseph Turok's ship is shot down during a mission to hunt down a war criminal. Turok and the rest of his squad are scattered across an alien planet inhabited by both the War criminals army and dozens of species of blood thirsty creatures. M Action, Crime, Thriller. The storyline takes place five years in the future - in Star: Lani Minella. M Action, Crime, Sci-Fi. Set before the events of Pitch Black , this game tells the story of how Richard B.

Riddick obtained his ability to see in the dark. Featuring a remastered edition of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay , as well as a new full-length campaign, Assault on Dark Athena picks up moments after Riddick's escape.

A single marine crash lands on an alien planet. You mission is to destroy the bio-mechanical enemy and the big gun. Star: Carly Staehlin-Taylor. Take on the role of Lieutenant James Patterson. You are the Allied force's most reliable military special agent. From storming the front lines of Normandy Beach as an infantryman to becoming an elite intel officer. The Chimera have launched a full scale invasion on both the east and west coasts of the United States.

Hale joins a special task force group put together by the SRPA, who are also resistant to the Chimera virus. M Action. Andrew Sterling is an MI6 agent captured while spying in China. To repay M Action, Crime, Drama. On his 21st birthday, mafia hit man Jackie Estacado is possessed by an ancient demonic force called The Darkness. This further complicates his relationships with his mafia family, a corrupt police department and his childhood love Jenny. Dungeon Fighter Spirit. Dungeons and Dragons Online.

Dynasty Warriors Mobile. Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed. Elder Scrolls Online. Elemental Knights Online. Emil Chronicle Online. Empire: Four Kingdoms. Emporea: Realms of War and Magic. Empyrion - Galactic Survival. Eternal Return: Black Survival. Evolution: Battle for Utopia.

Extra Dimensional War. Fantasy Tales Online. Fantasy War Tactics R. Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Final Fantasy Record Keeper. Final Fantasy The Awakening. Forsaken World Mobile. FreeStyle 2: Street Basketball. FreeStyle Baseball 2. Galactic Junk League. Game of Thrones: Conquest. Ghost Recon Phantoms. Ghost Recon Wildlands. Goddess: Primal Chaos. Graal Online Classic. Guardians Of Divinity.

GunZ 2: The Second Duel. Heavy Metal Machines. Heroes of Incredible Tales. Heroes of Order and Chaos. Heroes of the Banner. Heroes of the Dungeon. Heroes of Shadow Guard. Huxley: The Dystopia. Infestation: The New Z. Infinity: Battlescape. Invasion: World War 3. Khan: Absolute Power. Kingdom Hearts Union X. Kingdom Under Fire 2. Kritika: The White Knights. Last Day on Earth: Survival.

League of Angels - Fire Raiders. League of Angels - Paradise Land. Legends of Runeterra. Levorium: Rise of Empires. Lineage 2: Blood Oath. Lineage 2: Revolution.

Logres: Japanese RPG. Lord of the Rings Online. Lord of Vermilion Arena. Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu. Luna: Moonlight Thieves. LYN: The Lightbringer. Magic Duels: Origins. Magic: The Gathering Arena. Magicka: Wizard Wars. March Of War: Face Off. Marvel Contest of Champions. Metro Conflict: The Origin. Might and Magic: Duel of Champions. Might and Magic Heroes Online. Mirage: Arcane Warfare. Mission Against Terror. Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra.

Mobius Final Fantasy. Monster Hunter Online. Monster Hunter: World. Monster Super League. Mount Shu Chronicles.