Return to Rapture as a Big Daddy; better combat, smaller story.
Handsome Jack, a billion guns and four-player co-op on Pandora.
A Dubai buried in sand and a shooter that asks why you are enjoying it; Heart of Darkness with guns.
The Doom Slayer with a meat hook and a resource loop; faster than 2016.
Rip and tear on Mars to Mick Gordon's metal; id reboots Doom as speed.
A campaign about a pilot and his mech, and the time-travel level; Respawn's best-kept secret.
Adam Jensen never asked for this; cyberpunk Detroit in gold.
BJ Blazkowicz in a Nazi-occupied America; MachineGames' pulp.
Max in Sao Paulo, bald and drunk, in Rockstar's slow-motion finale.
Tracer, Mercy and payload maps; Blizzard's hero shooter.
Masks, one-hit kills and a synthwave soundtrack in 1989 Miami.
Isaac Clarke dismembers necromorphs on the USG Ishimura; the best horror shooter.
All Ghillied Up, the nuke and the multiplayer perks that changed shooters.
No Russian and the most played multiplayer of its generation.
The nanosuit and the PC that could not run it; "but can it run Crysis?"
Nine classes, hats and the Heavy; Valve's cartoon shooter, free since 2011.
Finish the fight; the trilogy ends with Forge and theatre mode.
The Arbiter, dual wielding and Xbox Live multiplayer; the console shooter online.
Cover shooting, the chainsaw bayonet and the Locust; Epic's Xbox 360 template.
Columbia in the sky, Elizabeth and the lighthouse ending.
Rocket-slide through a space colony; Shinji Mikami's fastest shooter.
Master Chief on the ring world, the warthog and the Flood; the Xbox is launched.
Bullet time, a graphic-novel story and a New York winter; Remedy's noir shooter.
The Facility, the watch menu and four-player split-screen; the N64 shooter that changed consoles.
Instagib, Facing Worlds and the announcer; the arena shooter of 1999.
Strippers, pigs in cop uniforms and "it's time to kick ass"; the Build engine shooter.
The BFG, the imps and the shareware episode that ran on every office PC in 1993.
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