Overwatch
Best Hero FPS
best first-person shooter games
It’s about one of the most influential games of the decade: Blizzard’s Overwatch. He certainly didn’t invent the hero shooter subgenre, but he took the concept and honed it to a dazzling sheen. With a growing cast of heroes who play differently from each other, the amount of variety you can get in a standard multiplayer game is unmatched; Plus, seasonal events like “Lucioball” offer fun twists on traditional game mechanics.
Overwatch has all the Blizzard charm we expected, but how all of its classes are balanced to create a competitive team game blew us away.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Best Call of Duty Game for PS4
best first-person shooter games
Treyarch made the bold decision not to include a campaign mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the first major game in the series to do so since its inception in 2003. This could have spelled doom for most games. But the studio took the extra resources to deliver a highly balanced and engaging competitive multiplayer mode, one that is among the best we’ve seen this generation. On top of that and its Zombies mode, the Battle Royale mode called Blackout showed how PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds would play if its firefights were on par with the competition.
Battlefield 3 PC
Battlefield returns to PC with a new installment set again in modern warfare, using the Frostbite 2 graphic engine. Its campaign will take us to the Middle East, and its multiplayer will have scenarios both in classic places of war games and in cities like Paris. The multiplayer mode will have a social network called Battlelog, and with numerous game modes, from the simple all against all to others that will require coordination between the different members of a team.
Half-Life PC
Valve software puts the player in charge of a sci-fi PC FPS starring scientist Gordon Freeman. Specialized in theoretical physics by MIT, he is responsible for an experiment with an unknown mineral. From there, the appearance of alien life will take over the facilities of Black Mesa, and the protagonist will have to face these creatures with a vast arsenal. The graphic section is managed by the GoldSrc engine, a modified version of the Quake Engine.
Dusk PC
DUSK is a first-person action video game inspired by games like Quake or Half-Life; Dusk takes place in the North American forests, where players will have to kill all the creatures that appear to survive. The game is divided into three episodes with their respective campaigns, where it is told how some occultists have possessed the military and the forces of darkness. All this, spiced up by a vast arsenal consisting of chainsaws, double-handle shotguns, or grenade launchers.
Apex legends
As we will include all kinds of shooters in this list, one of the currently dominant sub-genres is the Battle Royale, in which a hundred players face each other. And ‘Apex Legends’ was created by Respawn Entertainment, creators of sagas like ‘Titanfall.’ The game is set in the same universe.
The title retains the great hallmarks of Respawn, such as a high speed of action and a quality of the final result that is through the roof. You will find heroes with different abilities in the game, and you can return to the game once you have died, thanks to its curious and well-designed respawn system.
In this list, you will see many subgenres that are repeated, such as Battle Royale. But if you want to go to the basics of the first-person shooter, shooting yourself all the time in a military environment, this game can delight fans of the first ‘Call of Duty or ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. ‘
The title does not have any pay-to-win mechanics, but micropayments are focused on cosmetic accessories like many others. The game offers a good variety of maps, game modes, and weapons to choose from so that players can feel comfortable regardless of the style they want to play with.
Call to arms
This is a peculiar game, a mix of genres that might not be on this list, but that is because it also offers the possibility of shooting in the first person. Although what it is really about is a mix between real-time strategy and third-person game, with the possibility of controlling your soldiers.
The free game focuses on online games, although a paid version also adds downloadable content and single-player content. The missions of the game range from conquering rural areas, to factories or towns, with a destructible environment. You can plan how to proceed and choose between playing in the third or first person.
