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Updated on May 7, 2024, by Mohamed El Ouardighi: The third-person shooter genre stands out for its ability to produce some of the finest games in the industry. Its versatility allows for seamless integration with other genres, leading to open-world third-person shooters, horror-themed entries, and a variety of other titles. We've expanded our list to include a few additional titles.
Remnant 2 combines third-person shooting action with elements from the Soulslike genre. Incorporating aspects like a dodge button and rest points for respawning after death, it offers a challenge akin to Dark Souls but with guns.
One of the standout features of the game is its procedural generation. This means that the worlds you visit, the characters you encounter, and even the story and items you discover are all randomized. As a result, each playthrough offers a fresh and unpredictable experience, adding an exciting dynamic to the game. Alongside all of this, you will still enjoy the satisfying third-person shooting mechanics and engage in diverse boss fights, just with an extra challenge to it.
Who hasn't played the original Resident Evil 4 game back in the 2000s? With the announcement of the Remake back in the day, anticipation ran high, and thankfully, it didn't disappoint. Resident Evil 4 Remake maintains the familiar feel of the original, from the iconic locations to the beloved characters, while also adding some extra touches to enhance the experience.
You'll step into the shoes of the legendary Leon S. Kennedy as he embarks on his mission to rescue the president's daughter, Ashley Graham, battling through hordes of Las Plagas creatures who will stop at nothing to thwart him. However, if you're not a fan of horror, this might not be the game for you.
The Saints Row series may have begun life as one of the best Grand Theft Auto clones, but it soon created its own identity. The third game is the perfect example of that, as it's Saints Row at its peak. It offers wacky weapons, strange characters, plenty of explosions, and a great soundtrack.
The story is a classic Saints tale, too, as it revolves around your customizable protagonist leading the Saints against all the other gangs in Steelport and trying to take the city over. This narrative is the perfect excuse for plenty of open-world hijinks and even more violence. It's outrageous fun.
To what lengths would you go to solve the murder of your family? That's a question Max Payne must face, as the NYPD detective tries to find his family's killer. While investigating, Payne is caught in a larger conspiracy that includes information about a secret society and the United States military.
The game used a feature called Bullet Time, which caused time to slow down. Max Payne seemed like an ordinary third-person shooter but the game receives tremendous praise for its gunplay and the overall story. The success of Max Payne resulted in two sequels and a film adaptation in 2008.
Army of Two launched amid the cooperative boom on consoles of the mid-2000s. You needed to have precise teamwork to have true success in the game and ultimately, Army of Two was meant to be played with another real person, though it does have a Partner Artificial Intelligence system, so you could play solo. Certain objectives in the game are virtually impossible without the assistance of a second player or AI.
The game follows two mercenaries fighting through a political conspiracy from 1993 to 2009. Besides the main story mode, Army of Two also had online multiplayer and was one of the first games of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era to have region-locked multiplayer. Ultimately, Army of Two was praised for the in-depth cooperative play but only if you played with an actual real person instead of the AI.
During the mid-2000s, one of the standout video game series from Xbox Game Studios was Crackdown. Set in a futuristic dystopian city, essentially a police state ruled by the Agency, this third-person shooter offers a unique premise.
As a supersoldier for the Agency, you're tasked with patrolling the city and neutralizing various threats, from terrorists to occasional monsters. Crackdown evokes a vibe reminiscent of games like Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto but with an arcade-style twist. Critics particularly lauded the game's emphasis on environmental destruction and the freedom to explore the expansive world without being tied to a linear story.
Exploring a post-apocalyptic world is a common setting for video games and that's the case with Days Gone. The game follows Deacon St. John, a former outlaw who embarks on a journey to find his wife Sarah, who he thought was dead.
Days Gone takes place in Oregon roughly two years after a pandemic transformed a multitude of humans into zombie creatures called Freakers. Days Gone received mixed reviews because of its story and mission design but was praised for its artificial intelligence and graphics. Although Days Gone sold better compared to other games that Bend Studio developed, Sony elected against making a sequel.
The Evil Within treads the line of being a third-person shooter, but we include it because, well, the camera is in third-person and you shoot guns. This survival horror follows Detective Sebastian Castellanos investigating a mass murder at a mental hospital. However, Castellanos stumbles upon an evil that blows his reality.
Developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda, The Evil Within received tremendous praise for the gameplay, but the overall story was a bit more mixed. The Evil Within tends to fall into the same category as Resident Evil, so if you're a fan of those horror shooters then The Evil Within is sure to please.
Ever wanted to experience an alien invasion, but instead of fighting against the extraterrestrials, you played as one? Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed is a remake of the same original PS2 game and the first entry in the series since 2008. The remake features the same story following the Furon alien Crypto.
Crypto has a small arsenal of nine weapons in his pursuit of world domination. Everything from your standard disintegrator ray to something slightly less violent in the Free Love goggles, Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed has plenty of firepower to torment humans.
The original Mafia game in 2002 was an early testament to what this series would be. Set in 1930, Mafia follows the rise and subsequent fall of Tommy Angelo, a taxi driver who turned mobster. Although compared plenty to Grand Theft Auto, Mafia managed to establish itself as a successful series in the genre.
Mafia received tremendous praise for the story and, at the time, featured one of the largest cities to explore. The gameplay is similar to Grand Theft Auto and most other third-person shooters but is considered one of the best games in 2002. Now, with a remake available, there's no reason not to give it a go.
Taking place two years after the first game of the series, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is considered by many to be the best of the series. The story continues to follow Nathan Drake, who's in search of the Cintamani Stone and Shambhala with Chloe Frazer and Elena Fisher.
The gameplay follows the same formula as its predecessor with Drake being able to jump, climb, and hide behind cover in firefights. Shooting mechanics were drastically improved from the first game, as well as having a competitive and cooperative multiplayer mode. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves received high praise and multiple Game of the Year awards in 2009. To this day, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is still considered one of the best PS3 games of all time.
Developed by Remedy, Alan Wake isn't your typical third-person shooter. While there is some gunplay involved, Remedy's 2010 classic is more of a psychological thriller that could be compared to the hit television show X-Files. The game follows best-selling writer Alan Wake trying to solve the mystery of his wife's disappearance, with the kicker being that the events of the game are frighteningly similar to the events of his best-selling novel.
While exploring the small town of Bright Falls, Washington, you'll encounter various people who are becoming corrupted by a mysterious darkness. Alan Wake features traditional gunplay with standard handheld weapons and a special flashlight that's used to destroy darkness as well. A remastered version of the game launched in 2021 that saw updated graphics and enhanced controls for a better experience.
For over four decades, Star Wars has remained one of the biggest and most popular properties in pop culture. People have pretended to wield lightsabers, use the Force, and talk backward like Yoda. There have been plenty of iconic Star Wars video games for fans of all genres, including one of the best shooters in Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Despite receiving negative attention for microtransactions and excessive grinding, Battlefront 2 is the pinnacle of shooting games set in the Star Wars universe.
Players drop into one of the fourteen different Star Wars locations and not only fight their way to victory but also toward more powerful characters. If you perform well in battle, you'll have the option to temporarily upgrade your character to a special Star Wars fighter like Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader. These characters have the power to drastically turn the tide of any battle. Although the game received plenty of negative criticism for some of the business decisions, Star Wars Battlefront 2 offers superb gunplay and is deserving among the top of this genre.
During the PS3/Xbox 360 era, there were a few prominent horror shooter games that hit the market, including Dead Space. Developed by Visceral Games and published by EA, Dead Space is a mash of science-fiction and horror elements that culminate in one of the better third-person shooter experiences.
Set in the distant future, Dead Space follows Isaac Clarke, an engineer who battles a horde of mutated enemies called Necromorphs aboard the ship USG Ishimura. While Clarke must fight against these undead foes, the main adversaries are a group of fanatics who follow the religion of Unitology. They believe the Earth's government has suppressed an alien artifact called the Maker and they wish to use this artifact to invoke some sort of unification process. Dead Space is regarded as one of the greatest games of all time for its gunplay and the proper mix of science-fiction and horror elements.
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