What are the three best shooters in the past 10 years?

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#51  Edited By jimbojones
lordofultima said:
"Half-Life
Deus Ex
Rainbow Six"
Isn't Deus Ex more of an rpg than a shooter
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#52  Edited By starfox444
  • Unreal Tournament 2004, i had a LOT of user generated content.
  • Metal Gear Solid 3 (AND ONLY 3)
  • Call Of Duty: World At War

I can't say half life because i haven't played it although i obviously hear its good ;D
I dont enjoy the Halo franchise because it seems very generic to me, although the multiplayer is good the single player feels absolutely terrible to me.
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#53  Edited By crunchUK

i would pick halo 3, halo 1 and bioshock

lol at minuses it would appear some people at giantbomb can't handle opinions

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#54  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Half-life 2
Counter Strike Source
CoD 4

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#55  Edited By get2sammyb
  • Goldeneye
  • Halo 2
  • CoD4
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#56  Edited By RHCPfan24

BioShock

Half Life 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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#57  Edited By klinkcow

Shooters, or First Person Shooters?...These are 2 different genres

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#58  Edited By Duke_Lion

1. Half life 2
2. Team fortress 2
3. Unreal tournament

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#59  Edited By jakob187

Define "best".

Are we talking about gameplay mechanics?  Story?  Characters?  Guns?  Blood and gore?  What?  I mean, here's a preliminary list from me:

Doom 3
Dead Space
Painkiller

What does that say to you?  I like horror movies.  However, I could also say:

Serious Sam II
Call of Duty 2
Freedom Fighters

That says that I enjoy strong AI components.  Or how about this:

Half-Life 2
Gears of War 2
Bioshock

That says that I dig story-driven shooters.

Therefore, you have to clearly define "best", and to me, "best" would mean that a game has to feature every single one of the qualities I listed above.  Doom 3 is exactly that.  If we have to factor in multiplayer, then Call of Duty 2 is that.  If we have to factor in co-op...

You see the web of bullshit you are leading yourself into with threads like this?

*EDIT*  Oh, and your blatant fanboyism is showing...and no one is honestly impressed nor disgusted with it.  It's just sad.
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#60  Edited By jimbojones

It was a joke...

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#61  Edited By Captain_Fookup

Dues Ex, Soldier of Fortune 2 Double Helix, Call of Duty 4

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#62  Edited By lodar011

1. Call of Duty 4 for its amazing online play.
2. Half Life 2 because it's mother effing Half Life 2.
3. I want to say Left 4 Dead but it's too new to determine its place yet.  Let's just go with Halo 3 because it's the best of the Halo trilogy, which are all very good.

I don't own a PS3 but I'm sure you could argue Resistance 1 or 2.  Also, props the Metroid Prime 3.  The controls for the first 2 killed the games for me, but MP3 completely fixed that.

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#63  Edited By PLanter

Starsiege:tribes 

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#64  Edited By SpecTackle
PLanter said:
"Starsiege:tribes "
This.
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#65  Edited By Rorschach

Half Life 2, Bioshock, Halo.

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#66  Edited By ZombieJesus

Halo 2, COD 4 and Team Fortress 2

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#67  Edited By Voldy

1. Call of Duty 4
2. Half Life 2
3. Bioshock

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#68  Edited By Lieutenant
LiquidPrince said:
"Call of Duty 4
Portal
Resistance 2"
lol Portal
lol Resistance 2
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#69  Edited By End_Boss

I don't dare offer up my own opinion on this one, but I think Goldeneye should be on everyone's lists for sheer achievement. Does it stand up to the shooters of today? Like a leaf in a bonfire. But for its time, it revolutionized the genre and I know countless hours of my life were spent on it. Also, try not to bite too hard on what jimbojones says. He's the only blatant troll this forum has, as far as I've seen.

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#70  Edited By zityz

Hmm Past 10 Years?

1.Half Life 2
2.Call of Duty 4
3. Counter Strike

Aside from those, and even though they arn't in the past 10 years, I'd also like to include.

1.Goldeneye
2.Doom
3.Duke Nukem 3D

Just because those games were fucken eh back in the day.

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#71  Edited By drakesfortune

1. Uncharted
2. Bioshock
3. HL2 and the episodes


I haven't yet played a Halo game, though I have 1 and 2 sitting here waiting for me.  Judging by the love the halo games get they'd probably be pretty high in the list if I had played them.

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#72  Edited By Rapture

-Crysis
-Halo
-Half Life

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#73  Edited By Rapture

-Crysis
-Halo
-Half Life

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These aren't the "best" but they are my favorite three from the last ten years.

And, as you'll see, I have pretty pedestrian tastes.

  • Halo: Combat Evolved
  • Half-Life 2
  • Gears of War

All three did a lot to define a movement in first-person shooters.  Halo reinvigorated the first-person shooter genre's spirit on consoles, Half-Life 2 changed the way physics were manipulated in a game's infrastructure, and Gears of War streamlined the stop-and-pop cover system to make it accessible for the mainstream audience.  No one remembers Kill.Switch.  Everyone knows Gears of War.
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#75  Edited By KillerFly

Gears of War
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Left 4 Dead

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End_Boss said:
"I don't dare offer up my own opinion on this one, but I think Goldeneye should be on everyone's lists for sheer achievement. Does it stand up to the shooters of today? Like a leaf in a bonfire. But for its time, it revolutionized the genre and I know countless hours of my life were spent on it. Also, try not to bite too hard on what jimbojones says. He's the only blatant troll this forum has, as far as I've seen."
No, it shouldn't be.  Goldeneye came out in 1997. 
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#77  Edited By Hexpane
jimbojones said:
"Halo, Halo2, Halo3"
Someone who's never played anything other than XBOX i see.

halo 2 is not even the best XBOX1 shooter, never mind overall. 
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#78  Edited By LiquidPrince
Lieutenant said:
"LiquidPrince said:
"Call of Duty 4
Portal
Resistance 2"
lol Portal
lol Resistance 2"
lol Lieutenant...

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#79  Edited By NateDogg

Quake 1 (CTF/TF to be specific)

Counter-Strike
Call of duty 4: Modern Warfare
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#80  Edited By drakesfortune
NateDogg said:
"Quake 1 (CTF/TF to be specific)
Counter-Strike
Call of duty 4: Modern Warfare
"

Didn't Quake 1 come out long before 99?  I swear I remember playing that back in college in 97.
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#81  Edited By BiggerBomb

That I have played? I'll have to go with (in no particular order) Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty 2, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.