The Slayer's medieval war with a shield saw and a mech; the 2025 prequel.
Numbers stations, Vietnam and a Cold War conspiracy told from an interrogation chair.
Thirty-two players, planes, tanks and Wake Island; the series starts here.
El Alamein, Stalingrad and Normandy, with regenerating health for the first time.
The Pacific and the Eastern Front at their ugliest, and the first Nazi Zombies map.
Noir, Mona Sax and the Havok physics; Remedy's tighter sequel.
Operation Metro, jets and the Frostbite engine at full volume.
The 2003 original: three armies through the Second World War, and squads that shout.
Escape Castle Wolfenstein floor by floor; id's first-person shooter before Doom.
A pedal to duck behind cover and a light gun; the arcade shooter with a foot pedal.
Two players, top-down corridors and a self-destruct countdown; Team17's Aliens tribute.
Caleb, a pitchfork and a can of aerosol; the meanest of the Build-engine shooters.
A 3D roguelike where the difficulty rises with the clock; four-player chaos.
A bullet-hell dungeon of gun puns; Dodge Roll.
A corporate explorer on a sarcastic alien world; Typhoon's comedy Metroid.
Counter-Strike with abilities; Riot's tactical shooter.
Spread managed democracy with friendly fire and stratagems; the co-op hit of 2024.
Raid, loot, extract or lose everything; the hardcore shooter.
A pilot dies on an alien planet and restarts; the roguelike bullet-hell that cost sixty dollars.
Bolivia as a cartel sandbox for four players.
Dimension hopping with no loading; Insomniac shows off the PS5.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
A brutalist bureau that shifts its walls and a telekinetic director; Remedy's weird office.
Four dwarves mine an alien planet and shout Rock and Stone; the best co-op shooter.
Five attackers, five defenders, destructible walls; the tactical shooter esport.
Space ninjas and a decade of free updates; the co-op looter that outlived Destiny's rivals.
Guardians, raids and the loot loop; Bungie after Halo.
Turf war, Salmon Run and the Splatfests; Nintendo's shooter at its best.
Squid kids paint the map in turf war; Nintendo invents a shooter.
A Dubai buried in sand and a shooter that asks why you are enjoying it; Heart of Darkness with guns.
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