FPS or First Person Shooter games have dominated the gaming world for the longest time. We have made a list of the best 5 FPS PC games you can play in 2022.
The best first-person shooter games last a long time. While other genres change beyond recognition, the first-person shooter has a firm foundation that makes it as trustworthy as a powerful AK-47 in the hands. I believe it has something to do with the simplicity of squeezing the trigger and witnessing things fall apart. And in the best of these games, what you’re firing has a lot of weight to it.
Best PC FPS games
1. Valorant
Riot Games’ quest to win the competitive FPS title in CS: GO led to the creation of Valorant. It’s a cross between Valve’s snappy shooter and Overwatch’s over-the-top heroes: it’s still a tactical FPS where positioning is king and you die in a single headshot, but each class has flashy talents and powers that may change the course of a round. Some let you leap into the air, while others ping opponent positions, while ultimate powers allow you to damage adversaries through walls and clear entire sections. Although it is more colourful than CS: GO, the crisp graphics demonstrate that substance takes precedence over style.
Valorant is my current favourite over Counter-Strike, just because it feels fresher. Regular updates are provided, and certain useful tools, such as an aim training map, are integrated within the game rather than being hidden away in a “community contributions” part of a store.
2. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Since its inception as a large-scale Half-Life mod, the Counter-Strike series has been at the forefront of the competitive shooter scene. And, while CS: GO is currently the only way to play this Terrorists vs. Counter-Terrorists FPS on PC, it began as an updated console port. There are no respawns during rounds in CS: GO, so if you die, all you can do is watch and pray that your team successfully detonates or defuses the explosives.
Each map has been painstakingly designed to allow for a variety of tactics demanding varying levels of expertise, and the beautifully modelled firearms in your vast armoury all have subtle differences in firing rates and recoil that can only be learnt through practice. The skill ceiling in CS: GO is nearly unattainable, as it emphasises both cooperative collaboration and heroic moments wherein you gain all the spotlight. With all the other FPS games in this list constantly coming up with new updates and content for their games, CS: GO has a heavy responsibility to keep its community interested in the game. If you want to get back into the game check out the latest update released by valve Operation Riptide.
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Obviously, we had to include a game from this legendary series in our list of best FPS games, and Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War wins. The game departs from the series’ usual linear approach, allowing you to choose which missions to take on and when, as well as how much time you want to spend exploring for new information. As you pursue Soviet atomic spy Perseus, the campaign relies heavily on its 1980s backdrop and mixes fact and fiction. Cold War embraces the absurdity of its alternate history scenario, allowing the developers to include characters like John McClane and Rambo in the mix.
Classic game modes, a new 40-player Fireteam mode, a new Zombies narrative called Dark Aether, and Activision’s amazing multiplayer advancement system that links in with whatever you’re doing in Call of Duty: Warzone is just the cherry on the sundae. With the new Call of Duty Vanguard coming up, we are excited to see how it will continue the series.
4. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Rainbow Six Siege achieves what Battlefield games have only aspired to be – a multiplayer setting that is destructible down to the granular level. Instead of structures falling when scripted levers are pulled, weapons, grenades, battering rams, and breaching charges can pierce practically every door, window, wall, ceiling, and floor in Siege. You never feel safe because an attack might come from anywhere and at any time. Siege’s destructible surroundings encourage you to think on your feet and trust no wall after all these years of feeling safe behind barriers.
It’s as much a psychological struggle as it is a sequence of gunfights; it’s a game about manipulation and control as you try to get your opponents to react in certain ways while keeping your own squad intact. Due to its asymmetrical multiplayer and tactical openness, no round is ever the same. It’s also impressive as a novel team-based multiplayer shooter, offering something distinct from Counter-Strike and Call of Duty while remaining true to the Rainbow Six series’ essence. Check out the latest update to Rainbow Six Siege which made some great quality of life changes and Bug Fixes.
5. Black Mesa
It’s what you get when you remake one of the most beloved shooters of all time, Half-Life, and add finer aesthetics, more characters, more stages, punchier weaponry, and proper physics to the entire terrible conclusion. Black Mesa is a fan-made version of Half-Life 1 that uses the current Source engine. It took 15 years for Black Mesa to reach version 1.0, but it was well worth the wait when it arrived in 2020. Every area is designed with the kind of attention to detail that you don’t see from many AAA teams. This isn’t simply a remake of a classic; it’s a total revamp that takes one of the greatest shooters of all time, as well as one of the greatest characters, Gordon Freeman, into the present era.
Although there’s no disputing that Half-Life 1 is a fantastic game, especially in light of what it did for PC gaming, the gameplay isn’t ideal, but the improvements in Black Mesa fix that. If you haven’t played the original Half-Life game and want to see what you’ve been missing out on, Black Mesa is the best method to do so.
This was our list of the best FPS PC games that you can play in 2021. Every player has played an FPS game at least once and if you have not, you can play any one of the games for a great experience.
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