Top 10 Games: FPS

The highest-graded FPS games we have reviewed, best first.

  1. Half-Life 22004Physics, facial animation, and environmental storytelling promoted from decoration to core systems.Read the review
  2. Battlefield 12016The boldest setting choice in shooter history, rendered with the best audiovisual craft DICE ever mustered.
  3. Cyberpunk 20772020The disaster that finished becoming a masterpiece: Night City is the densest place ever rendered.
  4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare2019The reboot that rebuilt the engine, the tone, and the franchise's relevance in one shot.
  5. Halo 22004The game that invented online console multiplayer as we know it, with a campaign twice as bold as its predecessor.
  6. GoldenEye 0071997The console shooter that proved the genre belonged in the living room.
  7. Call of Duty: World at War2008The grimmest campaign the series ever shipped, plus a throwaway zombie mode that outlived empires.
  8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 22009The multiplayer peak the series has chased ever since, attached to a campaign running on pure adrenaline.
  9. Fallout: New Vegas2010Eighteen months, a borrowed engine, and still the best-written RPG of its generation.
  10. Doom1993The big bang of the first-person shooter, still fast enough to embarrass its descendants.

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  1. The critic's Top 10No. 1: Red Dead Redemption 2
  2. Action-AdventureNo. 1: Red Dead Redemption 2
  3. MultiplayerNo. 1: Grand Theft Auto V
  4. RPGsNo. 1: Elden Ring
  5. Open WorldNo. 1: Red Dead Redemption 2
  6. PlatformersNo. 1: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  7. ActionNo. 1: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
  8. HorrorNo. 1: Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake)
  9. StrategyNo. 1: Baldur's Gate 3
  10. FantasyNo. 1: The Legend of Zelda