Even John Romero is still releasing maps. Release date: Developer: id Software Link: Steam. This one's for all the extreme pointers and clickers out there. We recommend Doom as a warmup, an introduction to the faster pace and health-giving systems like Glory Kills that encourage aggressive, reckless play. Because Doom Eternal moves much faster, with added mobility like the dash and the ability to swing from monkey bars, and it squeezes every vital resource with an iron grip.
Health, armor, and ammo deplete faster than ever—arenas are bigger and filled with more demons overall—making for a more desperate, stressful shooter than the series' past. It's a sweatfest, one that tasks you with juggling eight guns, their multiple alternate firing modes, a chainsaw, a sword, a flamethrower, grenades, Glory Kills, Demon Punches, dashes, and more, some of which are the only means of returning those vital resources to you.
You're constantly riding the edge of death, bouncing in and out of the action to get shots in and stock back up on whatever resource is hurting the most, hopefully, before it's too late. And that's all before Eternal introduces melee enemies that force you to completely reconfigure age-old shooter habits into something like a reserved Dark Souls in the middle of a traditional arena hellstorm.
It's a lot. A lot of a good thing. This deliberately slow-paced and engaging FPS has shades of Stalker with a gorgeous sci-fi open world that's based on concept illustrations by former Rockstar artist Ian McQue.
You hijack a surveyor drone, investigating the signal in the title, and fend off other robot factions as you explore the planet's surface. Later in the game you get to command other surveyors, too, who can help you in combat.
The unusual and memorable setting, combined with great sounding and feeling guns, makes this one of the more notable recent cult hits on Steam.
You don't necessarily have to play all these games with a group, but they're better that way. Buy a copy with a friend—or maybe 20 friends depending on the game—and do a bit of bonding by graciously showing them where bottles of pills are and yelling at them when the bullheadedly dash into the next room before you're ready.
There's a good reason to play every Halo game, whether it's 5 or 10 or 20 years old. That reason differs from game-to-game, though there's still nothing else in the FPS world quite like Halo's big, sandboxy levels. But each has a unique draw: in Halo 1 it's the pistol, a sublimely overpowered hand cannon and more-or-less the only weapon you need in multiplayer.
And multiplayer itself is still really fun, a throwback to the LAN days of hour-long CTF matches and ridiculous vehicle physics. In Halo Reach, the 4-player co-op campaign and wave-based survival mode Firefight are perfect with friends. Thankfully, Microsoft made the wonderful decision to bring the MCC to PC, where they'll be playable and moddable for years to come. With Halo 4 added toward the end of , the full collection is finally complete on PC.
But that doesn't mean is done improving the package. The studio is still adding maps and quality-of-life features like crossplay with PC and Xbox.
Deep Rock Galactic is what happens if Left 4 Dead's zombies were giant bugs and its maps were fully destructible playgrounds. As professional mining dwarves armed to the teeth, up to four players delve deep into procedurally generated caverns to complete all sorts of mission types.
Sometimes you're mining for a specific mineral, other times you're building pump networks, but all the while the looming threat of bug hordes persists. Maybe the most surprising part of Deep Rock is how good the guns feel and how well the four classes synergize together.
Bug carcasses audibly crunch under the impact of my Engineer's shotgun and bugs scream as they're lit ablaze by the Driller's flamethrower. Procedurally generated games have a habit of feeling samey after a while, but Deep Rock is the rare exception. With a healthy variety of mission types, no shortage of goals to work toward new weapons, perks, abilities , and more post-release support in the works, it's a shining example of how to do co-op shooters right.
Release date: Developer: Fatshark Link: Steam. Vermintide 2 is a fully cooperative FPS where you and three friends axe, arrow, magic, and sword your way through a variety of Warhammer baddies. The sequel ramps things up significantly from the original with more weapon types, enemies, and a new progression system centered around fairly generous loot boxes.
It's intensely satisfying melee combat on a scale you just can't get anywhere else, especially in the comfort of a four-person party with friends.
No other first-person shooter offers a simulation on this level, with such high production values. Bohemia has built on Arma 3 with the excellent Apex expansion, too, which adds Tanoa, km2 of gorgeous tropical landscape to navigate. It was one of Evan's personal favorites of , and Andy Kelly even created his own Olympics-style events in Apex using Arma 3's Zeus mode. It's an essential add-on. Release date: Developer: Bungie Link: Steam. Bungie proved its talent for weapon and encounter design in the Halo series, but Destiny 2 fits those guns into a dazzling new sci-fi setting with RPG elements and a strong reliance on fighting for fresh loot.
The community has struggled to get on board with Destiny 2's new seasonal structure, but if you're a new player there are hundreds of hours of great missions, much of which you can access for free. Competitive PvP is fairly decent, but Destiny 2's very best missions ask six players to come together in meticulously designed raids—part puzzles, part shooting challenges.
As you earn power levels, you earn a huge collection of beautiful sci-fi guns, many with pages of backstory attached. Destiny 2 still needs to prove itself as a long term prospect as a living game for really devoted hobbyists but, moment to moment, it's a beautifully designed FPS that still feels amazing a thousand hours in.
We've should know; several PC Gamer staffers have spent more time than that shooting aliens across the solar system. SWAT 4 is finally available digitally, too, after a wait of years. You can pick it up for a reasonable price from GOG. To celebrate its re-release, Andy took another look at it in With the ideas that drove its predecessor validated by strong sales, Gearbox had the resources to pour production value into the second coming of its silly, more-is-more approach to a grindy FPS.
Bandits scream, limp, kamikaze, and sputter last words. The Goliath subverts your years of training, counter-intuitively going into Hulk mode when you headshot it. Mutated pests swoop, leap, burrow, and shield their vulnerable spots. Polished, playful, and our favorite antidote to military shooters that take themselves too seriously. Developers Kaos Studios are confident that their game will be awesome, so much so that they have already started working on a sequel. And after all that has been told about Homefront, we are pretty confident as well.
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Random, generic FPS. Follow us: Facebook. Metascore: User Score: 9. Skyrim reimagines the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose. Play any type of character you can imagine, and do whatever you want; the legendary freedom of choice, storytelling, and adventure of The Elder Scrolls is realized like never before.
Skyrim's new game engine brings to life a complete virtual world with rolling clouds, rugged mountains, bustling cities, lush fields, and ancient dungeons. Choose from hundreds of weapons, spells, and abilities. The new character system allows you to play any way you want and define yourself through your actions. Battle ancient dragons like you've never seen.
As Dragonborn, learn their secrets and harness their power for yourself. User Score: 8. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three dimensional environment. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms.
But when a black ops team breaks in and kills the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes. At a time when scientific advancements are routinely turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind's evolution follows a particular path.
You need to discover why - because the decisions you take and the choices you make will be the only things that can determine mankind's future. Shogun 2 is the ultimate refinement of the original formula with a new, cutting-edge AI, more polish and online functionality than ever before.
The result is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming that invites both veterans of Total War and new players to experience the enjoyment and depth of the series. FIFA Soccer 12 brings to the pitch a new game-changing Player Impact Engine, which is a physics engine built to deliver real-world physicality in every interaction on the pitch.
User Score: 7. As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before.
In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer actions ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Europe, Middle-East and North America. LIMBO, a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure, puts players in the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.
The critically acclaimed single-player experience of Assassin's Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in an epic struggle against the powerful Templar Order. Now a legendary Master Assassin, he must journey into Italy's greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy. Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood that will rally to his side.
Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies. The Witcher 2 is the sequel to developer CD Projekt's mature-themed fantasy role-playing game based on the works of author Andrzej Sapkowski. Hero Isaac Clarke returns for another heart-pounding adventure, taking the fight to the Necromorphs in this thrilling action-horror experience. New tools to gruesomely slice and dismember the Necromorphs complement Isaac's signature Plasma Cutter, empowering him as he meets new characters, explores epic Zero-G environments, and fights against a relentless necromorph onslaught.
Survival isn't the only thing on Isaac's mind in Dead Space 2 — this time, he calls the shots. DiRT 3 will boast more cars, more locations, more routes and more events than any other game in the series, including over 50 rally cars representing the very best from five decades of the sport. DiRT 3 delivers mud, sweat and gears world over: from the intense weather-beaten rally stages of Europe, Africa and the US, to executing performance driving showcases and career challenges where car control is pushed to spectacular limits.
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is a massive themed expansion pack featuring four of the most loved maps from Battlefield 2, boldly reimagined for Battlefield 3 with the power and destruction of the Frostbite 2 engine. It also gives you classic weapons and vehicles from Battlefield 2, unique dog tags, and all-new Assignments. Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC strategy game that brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Plan your moves, test them out, then hit the "Execute" button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously. Players can choose to play as Jedi, Sith, or a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, defining their personal story and determining their path down the light or dark side of the Force.
Players can also choose to team up with friends to battle enemies and overcome incredible challenges using dynamic Star Wars combat.
User Score: 6. Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you. The Saints are kings of Stilwater, but their celebrity status has not gone unnoticed.
The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with pawns in play all over the globe, has turned its eye on the Saints and demands tribute. Refusing to kneel to the Syndicate, you take the fight to a new city, playing out the most outlandish gameplay scenarios ever seen. Strap it on. Zachtronics Industries is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game.
Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem. In this turn-based game of strategy and cunning, observe how opportunity leads the German army to advance recklessly into the steppes of southern Russia. And as the story unfolds, join the Soviet campaign to repel the invaders As these legendary battles play out on the hex board, the tension of decision making and difficulties of conducting operations on a massive scale emerge.
Command armies and fronts in maneuver warfare, thrust and encircle, capture cities and cross continents; but never, ever forget to watch your supply lines. Isaac is a roguelike shooter based on the dungeon structure of Zelda nes. Trine 2 is the sequel to the downloadable PlayStation 3 and PC action platformer. The graphically stunning online game is set in a world being torn apart by dimensional "rifts" that tear into the land of Telara, releasing powerful forces that threaten the very existence of the entire universe.
Rifts and other dynamic events can be triggered by players, scheduled by the development team, or even occur spontaneously.
Dynamic events within the game can lead to a range of changes across the world, including everything from minor events to dramatic shifts in the game's landscape and the opening of new areas.
Players will connect with hundreds of thousands of other gamers to battle creatures overrunning the world, as well as each other. Shift 2 Unleashed combines violence and excitement in this racing experience. Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno takes place in a near-future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once-fertile land completely inhospitable.
Players need to master new technologies while facing numerous ecological challenges to build their empires. Anno offers players the ability to be architects of the future and create the world of tomorrow. With a wide variety of traps and weapons to choose from, Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! Terraria offers players a chance to be an action gamer, master builder, a collector, and even an explorer. Corruption is rampant, the drug trade is exploding, and murder rates are at an all-time high. In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, racketeering conspiracies and brutal murders, battling the L.
Using groundbreaking new animation technology that captures every nuance of an actor's facial performance in astonishing detail, L. Noire is a violent crime thriller that blends breathtaking action with true detective work to deliver an unprecedented interactive experience. Search for clues, chase down suspects and interrogate witnesses as you struggle to find the truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer McGuffin harbours the dark secret of a powerful artifact. Whoever calls this artifact their own will determine the fate of the world.
While the Army of Shadows sends out its best and most devious agents to discover the secret, the Alliance's three heroes find themselves involuntarily drawn into the crisis. Take Wilbur, Nate and Ivo on their treasure hunt, face bizarre characters and magical fantasy environments, and solve challenging puzzles that will tease your brain cells. Gemini Rue formerly known as Boryokudan Rue is an intense adventure set in a bleak future dominated by the corrupt Boryokudan crime syndicate.
Players assume the roles of two very different characters: Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin searching for a defector from the Gemini system, and "Delta-Six," a hospital inmate whose memory has been wiped by mysterious, Big Brother types. As fate brings the two men together, players explore a world where life is cheap, identities are bought and sold, and a simple quest for redemption can change an entire galaxy's fate.
EA announced that a new installment in the Dragon Age series will arrive in the first quarter of User Score: 4. Monday Night Combat is a class-based, third-person shooter and the most popular lethal sport of the future!
It blends intense combat, finishing moves, and gameshow-like challenges and rewards to produce an action experience unlike any other. Why fight for honor or duty when you can fight for the real American dream: cash, fame and endorsements? Bulletstorm's array of distinct skillshots produces unprecedented levels of frantic gameplay. The skillshot system rewards players for laying waste to enemies in the most imaginative way possible.
The more insane the skillshot, the more points players collect to upgrade and unlock weapons, which in turn allows them to execute even more inventive moves and exaggerated skillshots. Join Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts as they enter a patient named Johnny's mind on his death bed to grant his final request. Watch, interact, and change the past as Johnny's life unfolds before you and takes you on a magical journey inside one's head that asks the greatest question of all: "What if?
Would you try to achieve some grand goal? Could you find love? Or would you realize that sometimes the past is meant to stay the same. Rosalene and Watts on their journey and travel To The Moon.
Developed by Recoil Games, Rochard is a fun and original space adventure game that features a resourceful hero, ominous villains, rugged machinery, big explosions, even bigger stunts and sharp oneliners. The game tests players' coordination and wits as they use gravity to their advantage, changing it at will to solve environmental puzzles and advance through each level. By using the upgradable G-Lifter, the main tool of the game, players can lift and maneuver heavy objects around the environment, and can eventually swing, jump and propel themselves huge distances throughout each level.
Jamestown is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to four players set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. All of this can be enjoyed in seamless online and split-screen local multiplayer, as players cooperate and compete through the story campaign and challenge missions to build the strongest heroes and achieve the highest scores in the kingdom.
Combining the depth of strategic gaming with the satisfying action of RPG character building in a beautifully stylized toon fantasy setting, Dungeon Defenders is designed to be a distinctly addictive, easy-to-play experience for casual and hardcore gamers alike.
Blending fast-paced, explosive action with tactical battlefield command, Anomaly puts players in charge of a military convoy tasked with fighting back against the mysterious alien war machines that have begun to spring up in many of the world's largest cities. Players take part in battles personally to support and assist a hand-picked armor squad, utilizing their top-down tactical view to plot each and every turn of the convoy.
As they progress through the story campaign and challenge modes, players will unlock upgrades and new units to build their ultimate destruction squad. A couple flying to the vacation of their dreams is torn apart by a violent plane crash. Take on a harrowing quest to find your lost wife.
Enter into the dark world of a devastated tropical paradise now plunged into chaos. It's a place where the word "dead" has an entirely new meaning. Face the nightmare and fight for survival. Explore the secrets hidden in the darkest regions of the island and fight your way through. Survival is your main goal! The ultra-realistic combat system will ensure that every confrontation is a thrilling experience.
Use anything you find in your surroundings as a weapon. Make decisions that influence the entire world around you. Take advantage of opponent behavior and game physics. Dead Island is a mix of intense action and chilling horror environments in an engaging, strikingly realistic story.
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