Attention gamers presented best pc shooters of all time.
10. Painkiller 1
Painkiller 1 - 2004 game, which opens the top ten best shooters of all time on the computer. Many of the components in “Painkiller” were borrowed from first-person shooters of the “old school,” namely, the Doom, Quake, and Serious Sam video game series, which developers have repeatedly stated in an interview. The game takes place in Hell and Purgatory. The game includes 24 levels that are not interconnected in terms of design style (medieval castles, modern factories, psychiatric hospitals, etc.), five of which are levels with the same mission - “kill the boss”.
9. Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem - A popular PC shooter of 1996. Duke Nukem 3D is a logical continuation of the games of the Duke Nukem series, but if the first two games of the series were two-dimensional platformers, the third part is made in the then-popular Doom style (pseudo-three-dimensional corridors, first-person view, battles using various types of cold, firearms as well as fictional weapons). In fact, Duke Nukem 3D was Apogee's answer to the Doom series of games, as well as id Software's Heretic and Hexen.
8. Metro 2033
"Metro 2033" - One of the best shooters of all time on PC. The plot of the game is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky "Metro 2033". Metro 2033 sold over 1.5 million copies. Such a result is considered a failure. This is due to the fact that the American publisher THQ approached the project’s advertising insufficiently. According to Rich Williams, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, Metro 2033 was well received by the players and critics appreciated.
7. Crysis
Crysis - One of the best shooters of all time on PC, released in 2007. Crysis events unfold in a fictional future, in 2020, when an ancient alien spaceship was discovered on an island off the coast of China. A single player campaign offers the player to play the role of a fighter of the United States Delta Force special squad Jake Dunn (born Jake Dunn) with the callsign Nomad (born Nomad). Nomad is armed with various futuristic weapons and equipment, especially a nanosuit (Eng. Nano Muscle Suit). In Crysis, the player fights with the military of the North Korean army and alien enemies in four different locations: in the jungle of a tropical island, inside the "Ice Sphere" (consisting of the very jungle, only frozen), directly inside the spaceship (on which weightlessness reigns) and on the American aircraft carrier [16]. The Crysis game engine, CryEngine 2, uses the new DirectX 10 API to render graphics and includes the Sandbox 2 game level editor, which Crytek used to create the game.
6. Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 - A computer game in 2009, a cooperative first-person shooter with elements of survival horror, developed and published by Valve Corporation. Immediately after the release, the game was a great success and received many positive reviews. As in the first part of the shooter, the developers managed to convey well the atmosphere of horror and despair that arose as a result of the spread of an unknown virus in the game universe that turned people into monsters. Thanks to the work of the “Director” (artificial intelligence that monitors the game and affects the gameplay), each passage of the game is unique and inimitable, and the emphasis on team actions makes it one of the best among cooperative shooters. Also, the unusualness of this series of shooters is given by the unusual network mode, in which teams of opponents are placed in different conditions: some play for people, and others play for Special Infected.
5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - A series of games created in the genre of first-person shooter with elements of role-playing games and action-adventure. Events are unfolding at the present time, in an alternative world on the territory of Ukraine, in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. According to the plot of the series, in 2006 the exclusion zone was subjected to unexpected anomalous impact (Emission), as a result of which the physical, chemical and biological processes in this territory changed. There are many anomalies, artifacts, mutants. The ideas of the game clearly show the influence of the Strugatsky brothers' book “Roadside Picnic” and the film “Stalker” made by Andrei Tarkovsky based on it.
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - One of the most popular shooters on PC. The game is the sixth in the Call of Duty series. The project was officially announced on February 11, 2009. On the first day of sales, more than 4,700,000 copies of the game were sold. Thus, she set a new world daily sales record and left behind the previous leader - Grand Theft Auto IV. Almost a year later, on November 9, 2010, a new world record of daily sales was set by the continuer of the Call of Duty: Black Ops series with the result of 5,600,000 copies of the game sold on the first day of sales. The plot of the game is a direct continuation of the events of the game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and begins five years later. A single player campaign offers the player to play for several special forces fighters and regular units. The game takes place in Russia, at a military base in the mountains of Kazakhstan, in the slums of Brazil, in Afghanistan, in the United States and even in Earth orbit.
3. Doom 3
Doom 3 Opens the top three shooters of all time on PC. A sci-fi first-person shooter in the survival horror genre, developed by id Software and published by Activision in 2004. In Russia it is localized and published by 1C. The game takes place in 2145 at the research center of the United Aerospace Corporation (UAC) on Mars. Doom 3 is a remake of the original Doom game, but with new graphics and a game engine. The success of the game contributed to the fact that in 2005 the add-on “Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil”, developed jointly by id Software and Nerve Software, was released, and on October 21, 2005, based on the game, the feature film “Doom” was released, the distributor of which was Universal Pictures company.
2. Half-Life
Half-life one of the three best shooters on PC of all time. The game was released on November 16, 2004 (November 21, 2004 in Russia and the CIS countries by SoftClub) and received the highest ratings from many authoritative publications. In addition, the game has collected many awards and more than 45 titles "Game of the Year 2004". In 2012, Half-life 2 was awarded the Spike VGA 10 (Spike Video Game Awards) as the best game of the decade. The development lasted six years, during which the source code of the game was even stolen and posted on the Internet. The main technological achievements of developers can be considered the Source engine, which provided players with stunning character animation, advanced artificial intelligence of opponents, realistic physics and shader rendering. An unprecedented level of player interaction with the outside world was achieved through the use of a modified version of the Havok Physics physics engine. To date, more than 12 million copies of the game have been sold.
1. Battlefield
Battlefield tops the ranking of the best PC shooters of all time. The first part - “Battlefield 1942” - was released in 2002 and even then gained wide popularity. At the moment, the series contains 13 published games and one in development, the actions of which unfold in the events of the wars of the 20th century, the wars of the present, and the distant future - the war of 2142, where the player will have to play the role of a fighter both on land and on water, and in the sky. The series is especially popular for its multiplayer mode, in which up to 64 players can take part, with the choice of the belligerent, the class of a fighter with unique weapons, and the ability to control equipment. Over the 10 years of its existence, more than 50 million people have played the games in the series.