Halo, Half-Life, Titanfall, and many more!
The first-person shooter barely existed before the early ’90s.
These, in no particular order, are the best FPS campaigns of all time.
Halo 2
Picking just one Halo campaign to include on this list?
Were it so easy… but Halo 2 remains a masterpiece close to two decades after it released.
Halo 2 succeeds the way almost all great FPS campaigns do: subverting expectations.
And you are a very good listener.
But that isn’t what made The New Order so revolutionary.
The reason its campaign worked was the quiet and character-building moments in between all that carnage and violence.
Valve believed very strongly in the technology, bringing Half-Life out of hibernation for a prequel game.
And at this distance, they’d also have to take the Coriolis effect into account.
How could you take a side-scrolling action-platformer and turn it into a first-person shooter?
Was Nintendo just caving to the wider genre trends in the early 2000s to boost GameCube sales?
Of course not, because Nintendo has never really shown much interest in following the leader.
Even without Vaas, however, Far Cry 3 remains a fantastic game because nothing ever feels like busywork.
Deus Ex
An early pioneering game in the immersive sim genre.
Deus Ex is a first-person shooter that doesn’t need to be a first-person shooter.
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