The Shooters Collection
This is the densest category — six named series plus a catch-all for the games too good to be anyone's franchise placeholder. From the large-scale theater of war in Battlefield to the suffocating tunnels of Metro's post-nuclear Moscow, from Call of Duty lobbies at midnight to DOOM's singular gospel of rip and tear. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit — no survivors, no mercy, no skipping the Titanfall 2 campaign.
// series · 6 entries
Battlefield
Large-scale warfare, destructible environments, and the chaos only 64 players on one map can produce. DICE's legacy in full.
// on BF1
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — the bravest pivot in franchise history. WWI rendered in fire and mud, with an anthology campaign that made people cry inside a multiplayer game. Through Mud and Blood remains one of the finest single missions in the series.Battlefield 3
2011
★★★★★
The multiplayer DICE built their legacy on. Metro, Caspian Border, Kharg Island — legends every one.
Battlefield 4
2013
★★★★☆
Rough at launch, legendary in death. Dragon's Teeth, Final Stand — BF4 aged into one of the best multiplayer games ever made.
Battlefield 1
2016
★★★★★
The bravest pivot in franchise history. WWI in fire and mud. The anthology campaign made people cry inside a multiplayer game.
Battlefield V
2018
★★★☆☆
Underbaked and abandoned too soon. Pacific Theater maps were stunning. Underrated in retrospect, overwhelmed by its own launch problems.
2042
Battlefield 2042
2021
★★☆☆☆
A painful stumble. No scoreboard at launch, specialists over classes, maps too large. Patched significantly, never fully recovered.
TBD
Battlefield 6 TBD
TBD
— — —
Back to modern warfare, class system restored. DICE under new direction. The redemption arc the franchise needs.
// series · 3 entries
Metro
Dmitry Glukhovsky's post-nuclear Moscow, rendered by 4A Games. Survival horror in the tunnels beneath the ruins of civilization.
// on Metro Exodus
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — the train level. The Caspian. The Taiga. Exodus took Artyom out of the tunnels and onto the open road, and the shift was terrifying in the best way. The best train sequence in gaming history, full stop.| Title | Year | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metro 2033 | 2010 | ★★★★☆ | Claustrophobic tunnel horror. Artyom's first journey. Raw, atmospheric, unforgettable. The original Ranger Mode is still the definitive way to play. |
| Metro: Last Light | 2013 | ★★★★★ | The peak. Refined gameplay, richer world, the Dark Ones resolved beautifully. Revolution DLC alone justifies the whole game. |
| Metro Exodus | 2019 | ★★★★★ | Out of the tunnels, onto the road. Semi-open world Russia, brutal survival, the best train level in gaming. The Two Colonels DLC is devastating. |
// series · 10 entries
Call of Duty
The franchise that defined online shooters for a generation. Split here by the feature that mattered most — Zombies mode.
— with zombies mode —
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — the Zombies Easter Egg runs. Mob of the Dead. Der Eisendrache. Kino der Toten. A mode that became its own genre within a genre, with a lore so dense it spawned entire YouTube channels dedicated to nothing else.
| Title | Year | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| World at War ZOMBIES | 2008 | ★★★★☆ | Where it all started. Nacht der Untoten, Shi No Numa. The original — janky, iconic, never forgotten. |
| Black Ops ZOMBIES | 2010 | ★★★★★ | Kino der Toten. Five. Ascension. The EE storyline begins. Black Ops Zombies is arguably the best CoD package ever assembled. |
| Black Ops 2 ZOMBIES | 2012 | ★★★★★ | Mob of the Dead. Origins. Die Rise. The Zombies story peaked here. The multiplayer was precision-tuned perfection alongside it. |
| Black Ops 3 ZOMBIES | 2015 | ★★★★☆ | Shadows of Evil, Der Eisendrache, Revelations. Over-stuffed with lore but overflowing with creativity. Specialist system was divisive. |
| Black Ops 4 ZOMBIES | 2018 | ★★★☆☆ | No campaign. Blackout (BR mode) was brilliant. Zombies solid. Multiplayer overcomplicated. A weird, messy package with genuinely great parts. |
| Black Ops Cold War ZOMBIES | 2020 | ★★★★☆ | Firebase Z, Die Maschine. Round-based Zombies revival. Cold War campaign is underrated. Welcome return to form across the board. |
— without zombies mode —
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — CoD 4 changed everything. All Ghillied Up. The Mile High Club. A generation of shooter players grew up in its lobbies, and the multiplayer DNA it established is still being copied today.
| Title | Year | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CoD 4: Modern Warfare NO ZOMBIES | 2007 | ★★★★★ | The game that changed everything. All Ghillied Up. The Mile High Club. The multiplayer that hooked a generation. All-time classic. |
| MW2 NO ZOMBIES | 2009 | ★★★★★ | No Russian. Rust 1v1. The Favela. Possibly the most-played CoD in history. Broken in ways people loved it for. |
| MW3 NO ZOMBIES | 2011 | ★★★☆☆ | Solid if unspectacular. Price and Soap's trilogy closes. Survival mode was a nice addition. Lived entirely in Black Ops 2's shadow. |
| Ghosts NO ZOMBIES | 2013 | ★★☆☆☆ | The start of a rough IW run. Extinction mode underrated. Federation storyline went nowhere. Riley the dog was the highlight. |
// series · 2 entries
BioShock
Rapture and Columbia — the two greatest cities in gaming, both rotting from the inside out. Irrational Games at its absolute peak.
BioShock 2
2010
★★★★☆
Unfairly dismissed as a sequel. Playing as a Big Daddy reframes Rapture entirely. Minerva's Den DLC is a masterpiece in its own right — maybe the best thing in the whole series.
Infinite
BioShock Infinite
2013
★★★★★
Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth in the sky-city of Columbia. The ending rearranges your brain. Burial at Sea ties the whole saga together in a way that rewards every hour of attention you gave it.
// standalone · 1 entry
Wolfenstein: The New Order
MachineGames turned a legacy id franchise into a character study. B.J. Blazkowicz punching fascism — with unexpected soul.
The New Order
The New Order
2014
★★★★★
Nobody expected this to be profound. B.J. reading poetry. The pacing. The quiet moments between carnage. An FPS that made you feel. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — the record player scene alone.
// standalones · 7 entries
Loose Cannons
Everything that didn't fit a series but absolutely belongs in the library. No lesser for flying solo.
Left 4 Dead 2
2009
★★★★★
Still the gold standard for co-op shooter design. The Director AI, the Witch, the Tank. Valve at its most deviously playful.
Warhammer: Space Marine
2011
★★★★☆
The power fantasy 40K demanded. Titus wades through thousands of Orks with a chainsword and zero hesitation. Cathartic.
DOOM
2016
★★★★★
id reinvented themselves and the FPS genre in one move. Glory kills, BFG, Mick Gordon's score. Violence as a spiritual experience.
Titanfall 2
2016
★★★★★
Best FPS campaign of the 2010s. Effect and Cause alone. The wall-run flow state is something no other game has replicated.
Chivalry 2
2021
★★★★☆
64 players swinging swords and screaming. Objectively hilarious, surprisingly deep. The chicken leg mechanic earns five stars alone.
Armored Core VI
2023
★★★★★
FromSoftware applied Souls precision to mech combat. Customization rabbit hole, punishing bosses, mercenary story with real weight.
Helldivers 2
2024
★★★★★
The social shooter lightning strike of the decade. Starship Troopers satire meets immaculate co-op chaos. Major Orders changed the game.