The Best Shooter Games for PC: From Battlefield V to Borderlands 2

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The Best Shooter Games for PC

Battlefield V

Battlefield V doesn’t drastically alter the first-person-shooter field, but what’s in this package is quite good. The EA DICE-developed game features a gorgeous World War II scenario and lightning-fast gameplay that’ll keep you running and shooting for hours on end.

Battlefield V encompasses all the hallmarks of a modern first-person shooter by including respectable single-player content (War Stories) and fresh takes on multiplayer gameplay (Grand Operations). Firestorm, the game’s squad-based battle royale mode, supports up to 64 players, putting the series’ signature environmental destruction on display in glorious fashion.

The Darkness

Starbreeze had a knack for making great games out of bad licenses. With The Darkness they turned a laughable comic book into a Grand Guignol of a game that delicately weaved over-the-top gore with some of the quietest and most human moments found in any shooter. This is a game where, depending on what hardware you’re playing on, you could watch the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird from your character’s perspective as he snuggled quietly with his girlfriend on the couch. Some of the designers behind The Darkness also worked on The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Wolfenstein: The New Order, two other games on this list that mixed surprising character development with original ideas for first-person shooter set-pieces.

The Operative: No One Lives Forever

No One Lives Forever isn’t available anywhere for digital purposes thanks to the bureaucracy of game publishers, and that’s a goddamn crime. NOLF is not only a great first-person shooter starring a witty, charming heroine, it’s also a hysterically funny send-up of spy movies from the 60s. Also, you got to use a briefcase containing a missile launcher, so y’know, it reaches the top 50 for that alone.

Call of Duty

After years of World War II shooters, it’s easy to think there was little room for innovation. There was still Infinity Ward, though; a studio formed from the makers of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, who created a series that would persevere long into the present day with Call of Duty. Adding even more storytelling and blockbuster sequences, while creating a new and inventive style of multiplayer, Call of Duty solidified itself as the definitive World War II shooter, and one of the best of the era.

Perfect Dark

James Bond may be the name everyone remembers, but Joanna Dark is the true professional. Perfect Dark exceeded the reach of Goldeneye 007, its predecessor, in nearly every way other than popularity. Not only was the game more technologically innovative, but it was thematically groundbreaking as well, quietly subverting standard notions of videogame heroism through its artfully understated female protagonist.

Medal of Honor: Frontline

If you didn’t own an Xbox or a PC that could play cutting edge games at the dawn of the 21st century, this PlayStation 2 and GameCube classic was probably your favorite first-person shooter of the era. The fourth game in this classic World War II shooter series wasn’t the first to bring dual joystick controls to consoles, but it was one of the earliest ones outside of Halo to combine that standard shooter set-up with a fully realized campaign and well-designed levels. Both the Medal of Honor series and the World War II shooter genre quickly wore themselves out, but Frontline remains one of the more significant first-person shooters ever released.

Borderlands 2

With Borderlands 2, developer Gearbox Entertainment and publisher 2K Games return to the comedy-filled warzone. If you played the original Borderlands, you understand how this first-person shooter operates.

You play as a Vault Hunter, a treasure hunter looking for an alien vault on a barely colonized planet. Throughout the guffaw-filled adventure, you collect hundreds of different guns, each with its own unique stats and attributes. The heavy metal lets you mow down a seemingly unlimited number of robots, mutants, and Mad Max-style raiders.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

The Call of Duty franchise has been all over the place in recent years, with a focus shift from WWII campaigns to space adventures to battle royale action. Although Call of Duty has strayed from its roots, the Infinity Ward-developed reboot of the seminal 2007 title grounds the first-person shooter series.

Modern Warfare has the tactical single-player and robust multiplayer modes one expects from a Call of Duty title, but successfully strips away all superfluous elements. That’s not to say that Modern Warfare lacks cool features. New to the game is a rewards-based morality system that ranks your ability to properly discern innocent people from legitimate threats in the singleplayer campaign.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve’s free-to-play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (AKA CS: GO) is one of the most iconic titles of its generation. Buoyed by a strong FPS heritage that includes the original Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source, CS:GO is a fast-paced first-person shooter from 2012 that still holds its own against contemporary titles.

Sure, CS: GO is starting to show its age in certain areas, particularly in regards to the somewhat dated visual design, but the incredibly active community offers a highly competitive esports scene.

Duke Nukem 3D

It’s almost a little embarrassing to go back today in 2015 and profess any admiration or fondness for 1996’s Duke Nukem 3D, especially following the fiasco of Duke Nukem Forever, but like it or not, this game forms part of a triumvirate with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom as the best early shooters. And honestly, compared to those earlier titles, Duke Nukem 3D was an FPS that truly had personality and character rather than the faceless nature of Doom Guy. Duke’s hyper-macho quips are juvenile, but in a time when the market was largely seen as prepubescent boys, it made sense.

The gameplay, meanwhile, was quite a step forward from anything people had seen before, with its destructible level designs and multiple pathways. The weapon designs were likewise awesome—who can forget the first time they shrunk an enemy with the shrink ray and then stepped on them like a bug? That particular style of weapon has never been done as well again in an FPS in the last 20 years.

What is a popular shooting game?

What are the most popular first person shooting video games in 2020? Doom Eternal. Destiny 2. Call of Duty: Warzone. Battlefield V.

What is a shooter game called?

Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character’s enemies using the weapons given to the player.

What is the best selling shooter game of all time?

cod is the best selling fps of all time with over 400 million copies sold. destiny is in a close second with an estimated 92 million in its first week.

What is the #1 game in the world?

Also, What is the #1 game in the world 2020? Developed by Epic Games and released in 2017, Fortnite remains one of the most popular video games of 2020.