But this year, the release calendar was inked with fun surprises. Destiny and Titanfall aside, I’d kind of written the genre off in recent years, as linear Call of Duty-wannabes dominated the market. Sam: Yeah, it really did, and no one was more surprised by that than me. The calendar was inked with fun surprises Gory shooters like Killing Floor 2 and Shadow Warrior 2 didn’t win us over, but were notable - and may have connected with me in a less crowded 12 months. The list doesn’t include Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, easily the best entry in the franchise in years, or small and enjoyable one-offs, like the retro-gritty Devil Daggers. If we expand our scope to include role-playing or stealth first-person games, then I’ll tack on Dishonored 2 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. So our favorite shooters were an add-on and RPG: not a good year for the genre.įor comparison’s sake, we jotted down a list of shooters we considered for our Best of 2016 list, and we have five choices: Doom, Overwatch, Battlefield 1, Superhot, and Titanfall 2. Fallout 4 is on here, too, which is a role-playing game, albeit one with plenty of guns and opportunities to shoot people in the head. Let’s revisit The Verge’s list of best games of last year, and the only traditional first-person shooter that made the cut was The Taken King, an expansion to 2014’s Destiny. Before we dig into 2016, let’s review 2015.
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