Guardians, raids and the loot loop; Bungie after Halo.
Time moves only when you move; the FPS as a puzzle.
Five attackers, five defenders, destructible walls; the tactical shooter esport.
A cult in Montana and Hope County; the Far Cry formula in America.
Raid, loot, extract or lose everything; the hardcore shooter.
Squads of three with a ping system; Respawn's battle royale.
Talos I, mimics that look like coffee cups and the GLOO gun; Arkane's System Shock.
Return to Rapture as a Big Daddy; better combat, smaller story.
Rip and tear on Mars to Mick Gordon's metal; id reboots Doom as speed.
Tracer, Mercy and payload maps; Blizzard's hero shooter.
Handsome Jack, a billion guns and four-player co-op on Pandora.
A campaign about a pilot and his mech, and the time-travel level; Respawn's best-kept secret.
BJ Blazkowicz in a Nazi-occupied America; MachineGames' pulp.
The Doom Slayer with a meat hook and a resource loop; faster than 2016.
Samus with Wii pointer aiming across three planets; the trilogy ends.
Moscow's survivors in the metro tunnels; the Russian post-apocalypse from Glukhovsky's novel.
No Russian and the most played multiplayer of its generation.
Columbia in the sky, Elizabeth and the lighthouse ending.
All Ghillied Up, the nuke and the multiplayer perks that changed shooters.
The Arbiter, dual wielding and Xbox Live multiplayer; the console shooter online.
The Zone around the reactor, anomalies and artefacts; the Ukrainian shooter from Roadside Picnic.
The nanosuit and the PC that could not run it; "but can it run Crysis?"
Vaas explains insanity and a tourist becomes a warrior on a tropical island.
Four survivors, the AI Director and a chainsaw; co-op zombie shooting at its best.
Finish the fight; the trilogy ends with Forge and theatre mode.
Samus in first person on Tallon IV, scanning everything; Retro Studios' miracle.
Nine classes, hats and the Heavy; Valve's cartoon shooter, free since 2011.
Instagib, Facing Worlds and the announcer; the arena shooter of 1999.
Master Chief on the ring world, the warthog and the Flood; the Xbox is launched.
Strippers, pigs in cop uniforms and "it's time to kick ass"; the Build engine shooter.
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