Masks, one-hit kills and a synthwave soundtrack in 1989 Miami.
Rip and tear on Mars to Mick Gordon's metal; id reboots Doom as speed.
The Doom Slayer with a meat hook and a resource loop; faster than 2016.
Return to Rapture as a Big Daddy; better combat, smaller story.
Max in Sao Paulo, bald and drunk, in Rockstar's slow-motion finale.
BJ Blazkowicz in a Nazi-occupied America; MachineGames' pulp.
Tracer, Mercy and payload maps; Blizzard's hero shooter.
Handsome Jack, a billion guns and four-player co-op on Pandora.
Adam Jensen never asked for this; cyberpunk Detroit in gold.
A campaign about a pilot and his mech, and the time-travel level; Respawn's best-kept secret.
A boy in a basement shoots tears at monsters; the roguelike with a thousand items.
Nine classes, hats and the Heavy; Valve's cartoon shooter, free since 2011.
Isaac Clarke dismembers necromorphs on the USG Ishimura; the best horror shooter.
Rocket-slide through a space colony; Shinji Mikami's fastest shooter.
The nanosuit and the PC that could not run it; "but can it run Crysis?"
Cover shooting, the chainsaw bayonet and the Locust; Epic's Xbox 360 template.
The Arbiter, dual wielding and Xbox Live multiplayer; the console shooter online.
All Ghillied Up, the nuke and the multiplayer perks that changed shooters.
Columbia in the sky, Elizabeth and the lighthouse ending.
No Russian and the most played multiplayer of its generation.
Finish the fight; the trilogy ends with Forge and theatre mode.
The BFG, the imps and the shareware episode that ran on every office PC in 1993.
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.
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.
Instagib, Facing Worlds and the announcer; the arena shooter of 1999.
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