Good Shooters on PC

INTRO

• My Backlog
• ✅ means “replayed recently, still holds up, will replay again, amazing”
• I have played most in the past, but I would like to reevaluate
• (ea) means still in early access
• (a) means “can be played with achievements meta in mind”
• First and last difficulty of most games are to be avoided
• The purpose of this project is to find all the ✅

RETRO

• Unreal Gold
• Turok 1–2

MODERN RETRO

• Wrath: Aeon of Ruin (ea)
• Turbo Overkill
• Apotheosis X (mod)

GOLDEN AGE

• Half Life 2 episodes (a)
• Half Life 2 content mods: Entropy Zero, Downfall, Year Long Alarm
• Black Mesa (a)
• Armed and Dangerous
• Giants

MONOLITH

• FEAR 3 (a)
• Condemned [heavy on melee, not shooter]
• No One Lives Forever (play on hard)
• No One Lives Forever 2
• Tron 2.0

RAVEN

• Star Trek: Voyager — Elite Force (play on hard)

RITUAL

[Ritual did some excellent games in the Golden Age]

• SIN (few pickups, play on normal)

GREY MATTER

• Kingpin: Life of Crime (play on normal, wait for remastered)

HORROR

• Undying

ARENA

• Serious Sam HD: First Encounter (a)
• Serious Sam HD: Second Encounter (a)
• Serious Sam 2
• Kiss: Psycho Circus

MODERN

• Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (a)
• Halo: Master Chief Collection (a)
• Crysis 1
• Transformers: War for Cybertron (unlock fps)
• Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (a)
• ✅ Rage (easy, so play on hard) (a)
• Wolfenstein: New Order (a)
• ✅ Warhammer 40k Space Marine (a) (play on hard)
• Shadow Warrior (reboot) (a)

SLOW MOTION

• Total Overdose
• Superhot (a)
• Stranglehold

COVER BASED

• Spec Ops: The Line (a)

MODERN MILITARY

• Call of Duty 1 + 2
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
• Brutal Wolfenstein (doom mod)
• Blade of Agony (play on recommended difficulty) (doom mod)

SURVIVAL HORROR

• Dead Space 3
• Evil Within (a) — surreal, upgrades, limited resources

ARCADE SIMS

• Ace Combat 7 (a) — use expert scheme, briefings, radio, tactical / system, hard
• Freelancer [space sim]
• Comanche 4 [helicopter sim]
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron / Starfighter

2D SHOOTER

• Hotline Miami 1 + 2 (a)

IMMERSIVE SIMS

• Deus Ex 1+2
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution + Mankind Divided (a) (play on hard)
• Stalker series
• Metro Exodus
• Bioshock (avoid remastered)
• Bioshock Infinite (a)
• Dishonored series (a) (complex levels, resource management, abilities on mana, upgrades, fast)
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• Thief 3: Deadly Shadows (imsim, not shooter)
• Arx Fatalis
• Gloomwood
• Fallen Aces

CONSOLE

• Metroid Prime Trilogy (via PrimeHack)

MEDIOCRE

• Vanquish
• Punisher
• Area 51
• XIII (bad checkpoints, play on normal)
• Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death
• Red Faction (fix here)
• Alan Wake (a)
• Tribes: Vengeance
• Snowblind (play on hard)
• Advent Rising
• Titanfall 2 (a)
• Rogue Trooper Redux (a) (military feel, abilities)
• Singularity (play on hard)
• Wolfenstein (2009)
• Timeshift
• James Bond: Nightfire (play on normal)
• Lost Planet
• Shadowgrounds
• X-Com Enforcer
• Gun Metal
• Bionic Commando
• Project IGI (use cheat to play on easy)
• Necrovision + exp
• //Kane & Lynch
• // Front Mission Evolved
• // Syndicate
• //Vietcong
• //Metro 2033