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The 28 Best FPS Games

From the dystopian corridors of BioShock's subterranean "paradise" to the Strogg-infested space stations found throughout the Quake franchise, First Person Shooters have found countless ways to establish themselves as rich, enjoyable experiences, capturing the hearts and trigger fingers of gamers worldwide.

Even if it's just blasting away wave after wave of demons in Blood, or perhaps saving mankind from itself as you traverse Half-Life 2's City 17, the FPS genre has proven itself time and time again.

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Close_Second - 322 days 14 hours ago

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1 - The only thing that list does...

...is show us just how generic the FPS genre is. Yes they have become technically more impressive over the years and are still fun to play but nothing about them, in terms of game mechanics, has really changed.

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Eiffel - 322 days 14 hours ago

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That speaks for almost all games of every genre these past couple of years.

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Shankle - 321 days 18 hours ago

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Thief, Portal, Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Metroid Prime 3. Innovation, my friend.

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mintaro - 322 days 13 hours ago

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They put Halo 3 over Halo CE? For shame...

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 322 days 12 hours ago

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They put A Halo on the list. Isn't that bad enough?

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mintaro - 322 days 12 hours ago

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You funny, funny troll.

:)

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Panthers - 322 days 11 hours ago

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Halo CE is some of the most fun I have had with shooters. It deserves to be on the list. Playing that game Co-Op was amazing.

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SAiOSiN - 322 days 13 hours ago

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We'll see an update to that last on Feb. 27. :)

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xXDevil-HunterXx - 322 days 9 hours ago

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3.1 - HELL YEAH

KILLZONE 2 Baby!!!1

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marichuu - 322 days 13 hours ago

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4 - Bad list is bad

Even though I didn't like the first Resistance, I still believe it's better than some of those games listed there...

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 322 days 12 hours ago

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What? Resistance: Fall of Man was a great shooter! Despite the graphics, the storyline and gameplay were incredible! The only problem with R2 is that the storyline is short. The multi-player is better than COD, the co-op is addicting as frick, and the storyline was really good. (Extremely surprising ending though. Like...holy frick!)

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PS360WiiRocks - 322 days 13 hours ago

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sad thing is to this day I still haven't played Half Life 2, lol I'm a terrible gamer. But Bioshock and Half Life 2 are probably some of the best games ever made no matter of genre. Their is absolutely just something about Bioshock that still to this day makes me remember it, and I haven't played it since 2007.

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marichuu - 322 days 13 hours ago

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I dunno... Bioshock was "meh" after the first 30 mins... rest of the game was just shoot this, hack that and repeat. Oh, and the fact that guns > plasmids (is that what they were called? can't recall) was a really bad thing btw ;<

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PS360WiiRocks - 322 days 12 hours ago

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Really? I thought the game was gripping, awesome and the plasmids were totally the coolest part of the game. I dunno what it is about the game, it just has 'it' for me at least. All FPS are "go here and shoot this" though

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marichuu - 322 days 12 hours ago

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Yea, the plasmids were cool, but I wish they were a bit stronger... or more fights like the final one at least. No multiplayer was the most disappointing part of the game... it could've been really addictive with all the different plasmids available.
Dunno... I just never really got into it... maybe I should give it another shot when I get bored of the gazillion great games that came out lately and the ones coming up in the next month.
One more thing... is there any difference between the PC and the 360 version?

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PS360WiiRocks - 322 days 11 hours ago

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From what I know like most PC games it just has better graphics. It's a pretty good system hog for sure.

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I_am_rushin - 322 days 12 hours ago

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6 - Automatic Fail!

Where is Black? Sure it was short and didn't have multiplayer, but imo it was a great shooter.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 322 days 12 hours ago

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It was good, but come on...how many exploding barrels can we have?

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Shankle - 321 days 17 hours ago

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Be fair to it. Those exploding barrels were some of the best exploding barrels we've ever seen.

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Unicron - 322 days 12 hours ago

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For me, the tops will always be Quake 3 Team Arena, UT2004, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, and CoD4.

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shawnsl65 - 322 days 6 hours ago

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Golden Eye with the 4 player split screen. GOOD TIMES! *places down a proximity mine and runs*

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Akiira - 322 days 2 hours ago

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perfect dark was awsome. so many good memoryies with that game

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 322 days 12 hours ago

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Halo 3 over ANY of those games?

Seriously?

Halo 3 over System Shock 2? They're obviously devout gamers, but what are they smoking? Halo 3 is one of the shallowest games I've ever played.

How do Unreal Tournament, Tribes 2, Counter Strike, F.E.A.R., Battlefield 1942, NOLF, and Wolfenstein get listed below Halo 3?

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marichuu - 322 days 12 hours ago

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Haha, I was about to punch you in the face when I read "How do... F.E.A.R."
I thought you were about to write "make it on the list", but then I saw something more awesome "get listed below Halo 3" :D

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NaiNaiNai - 322 days 12 hours ago

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the only reason halo 3 is on the list is its the only FPS on console that lets you take the game so far.
A. map editors.
B. new updates.
C. large community (even if 40% are under 15)
D. always a match to play
E. ranking system that has been modified i believe 2 times now to help know boosters and people who drop ranks on purpose.
F. no to mention the large fanbase. there maybe alot of people who hate the game, but it has a massive crowd that follows it.

its no wonder its in there. personally i liked halo 3 for awhile and ill pick it up every now and then, but its by far not my favorite FPS. at the moment that goes to L4D.

and yes Black should have been higher up. i bet if it had Mutiplayer it would have been.
-nai-

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Akiira - 322 days 2 hours ago

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so true Nai

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 322 days 12 hours ago

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Half-Life 2...YES! The Episodes were great also.

I would put Bioshock higher though...believe it or not. Bioshock is one of the best games ever made.

I think they should be shot for putting Halo 3 up there with such epics as F.E.A.R., System Shock 2, and Bioshock. How do you really compare them? Is it a popularity contest? It Halo 3 good because people bought it? People buy Madden every year, but I've yet to enjoy myself with that series.

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Marquis_de_Sade - 322 days 8 hours ago

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After 4 comments, we get the idea, you hate Halo 3. Great, thanks and bye.

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ballerjoe121 - 322 days 2 hours ago

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9.2 - haha

lol. "we get the idea, you hate Halo 3. Great, thanks and bye." haha

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Viatrophy - 322 days 11 hours ago

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10 - Oh my...

How the hell did Halo 3 get on the list but not Halo CE or 2? Both were much better.

Timesplitters 2 was better than Future Perfect.

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NaiNaiNai - 322 days 10 hours ago

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timesplitters 2 was the best of the series. >.> i just wish they didn't cut free radical i wanted a TS for this gen. =(
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kharma45 - 321 days 19 hours ago

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TS2 really should be in there instead of TS: FP, and even then, it should be much higher up the list, TS2 was an awesome game!

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Jason 360 - 322 days 11 hours ago

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11 - Thanks for the spyware.

CLICK spybot do your thing

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Wolf873 - 322 days 10 hours ago

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12 - Its funny, why did the author felt the need to mention Halo in comments for most games,

well whatever, its an okay list. I don't agree with some of the numbering for games though, but its matter of opinion just like the list is so no need to get worked up about it.

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Cheeseknight28 - 322 days 10 hours ago

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No Team Fortress 2? For shame...

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Dark General - 322 days 10 hours ago

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It's like i said. Dues Ex didn't make top 10? But somehow BioShock, HL2 AND CoD4 make top 5? I've played them all (i didn't play Bioshock in full though) and DE easily tops them all.

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Akiira - 322 days 2 hours ago

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well Dues Ex was really more of an rpg with an fps element in it. as for cod4, hl2, and bioshock those games are all extremly good and prolly should be in top 5 or atleast top 10.

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Dark General - 322 days 1 hour ago

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HL2 wouldn't make my top anything besides besides my top over rated games of all time. I was expecting it to be this great video game, with a really intriguing storyline and characters. It didn't have a storyline really, bad narrative, worser level design and superfluous weapons. I own CoD4 and it isn't that great, but i haven't really played the single player that much. BioShock i can see why since it copies in essence of System Shock 2 and Dues Ex, but since i've had a experience like that before it wasn't that great to me.

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Halochampian - 322 days 6 hours ago

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perfect dark deserves to be number 1 imo. Loved that game. Might have been the first FPS I really loved.

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RebornSpy - 322 days 5 hours ago

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15.1 - @Halochampian

The first FPS that I ever loved was Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, but it definitely doesn't deserve to be on the list, let alone number 1.

I played Goldeneye on the N64 the other day, and it was bad. It's hard to go back to 1 stick when you've trained yourself with 2.

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Halochampian - 322 days 4 hours ago

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perfect dark > Goldeneye

Perfect Dark is one of the best rated games of all time.

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Akiira - 322 days 2 hours ago

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totally agree with ya there

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wwedx - 322 days 6 hours ago

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16 - WTF

no CoD WaW the list is a fail

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DMasta718 - 322 days 5 hours ago

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COD:WAW on the list? No

I would've replaced Halo 3 with Halo 2

Goldeneye 007 will always be my top FPS ever. It introduced me to the genre.

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Akiira - 322 days 2 hours ago

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lol cause that game was better then cod4....not

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y0haN - 322 days 4 hours ago

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Their CS: Source screenshot is actually a screenshot from CS: Condition Zero :/

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phosphor112 - 321 days 21 hours ago

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I thought i was the only one that noticed that since no one mentioned it. CS:CZ sucks horribly. Its either 1.6 or Source, 1.6 has been for the most part turned into a modfest. It's hard to find just the regular objective based CS for 1.6. All I can find now a days is either DM or some zombie mod thats pretty horrible.

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smurfie4 - 322 days 4 hours ago

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If this list doesn't have duke nukem 3d then the author has no taste.

edit: it does have duke nukem gj.

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I still think to this day that Half-Life (original) is the best FPS ever made, Half-Life 2 is second. If you played Half-Life when it first came out, it blew your mind, guaranteed.

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caladbolg777 - 322 days 11 hours ago

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1 - Best FPS = ???

Team Fortress 2.

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