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Super Dragon 64 wrote:

Hyperion wrote:

Captain Kinopio wrote:Not played many FPS in the last 10 years then...

I found there to be very few on the DS/3DS/Wii U. I'm playing Metroid Prime Trilogy now

I can't believe that I put Metroid Prime in my list instead of Metroid Prime Trilogy which has the best control scheme. I'll change that now

There aren't many rules, but no compilations is one of them.

Mine:

- Portal
- Portal 2
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Prime 2
- Timesplitters 2
- Goldeneye
- Perfect Dark
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Half Life 2
- Killer 2

The results are in.

In the end the first and second-placed games were only separated by a single vote (29 to 28). The make up of the top 10 also changed right up to the final set of nominations.

In total 115 games were nominated, and there was a GRecommends record 427 votes.

Quick results


1st
GoldenEye 007
Developer: Rare, Publisher: Nintendo
First released: Nintendo 64, 1997


2nd
Half-Life 2
Valve Corporation, Valve Corporation
Xbox, PC, 2004

Available on Steam

3rd
Perfect Dark
Rare, Nintendo
Nintendo 64, 2000

Available on Xbox One (via Rare Replay and Backwards Compatibility)

4th
Metroid Prime
Retro Studios, Nintendo
GameCube, 2002

Available on Wii U Virtual Concole (via Metroid Prime Trilogy)

5th=
BioShock
2K Boston/2K Australia, 2K Games
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, 2007

Available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC (via BioShock: The Complete Collection

5th=
TimeSplitters 2
Free Radical Design, Eidos Interactive
GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, 2002


7th=
Halo: Combat Evolved
Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios
Xbox, PC, 2001

Available on Xbox One (via Halo: The Master Chief Collection)

7th=
Doom
id Software, GT Interactive
PC, 1993

Available on Steam and Xbox One BC

9th
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Infinity Ward, Activision
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, 2007

Available on Steam

10th
Halo 3
Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios
Xbox 360, 2007

Available on Xbox One (via Halo: The Master Chief Collection)

Bubbling under: Deux Ex (PlayStation 2, PC, 2000)

The full spreadsheet of GRecommends results has also bee updated here.

Thanks for voting!

What the top 10 demonstrated to me is that story (or memorable character, at least) is a lot more important to a first-person shooter if it is considered to be be "great" than I had imagined.

Also EA am cry, with none of the Medal of Honour or Battlefield series even close to making the top 10.

SerialCeler wrote:The results are in...

Great job, Celer - it was ace to see so many GRcadians voting and even cooler to end up with a terrific roster of top titles. I had kinda thought that Call of Duty and Destiny would have made much more impact on this chart... I guess opinion is pretty much divided on them! I'm happy to see Doom (the original game, right?) do well as, over twenty years on, it stlll retains its smoothness and playability.

2 Halo's in the top 10.

Time for the greatest trailer for any game ever made.


Dem Feels.

But where did Black come in?

Good list though.

jawafour wrote:I'm happy to see Doom (the original game, right?)

Yes, but Doom (2016) was very close to making the top 10, and only missed out due to a late flurry of votes for Modern Warfare and TimeSplitters 2.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:But where did Black come in?

It got four votes which ranked it joint 22nd (with Crysis, Quake 3 and Dishonored).

Photek wrote:2 Halo's in the top 10

I was surprised that Halo 2, feted on its arrival, only got two votes in the whole process. Even ODST managed three nominations.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:But where did Black come in?

SerialCeler wrote:It got four votes which ranked it joint 22nd (with Crysis, Quake 3 and Dishonored).

Distinguished company. Nice.

I'll never understand why Goldeneye consistently rates higher than Perfect Dark when PD is objectively a much better game. Must be the nostalgia factor.

Or you are Bond, James Bond.

The main character makes all the difference.

Poor Banjo Tooie

Portal was robbed

Thanks for reminding me that Timesplitters 2 isn't available on anything current :'(

But it's on the list so I'm happy, that's all that matters

Decent list. I'd put Perfect Dark above Goldeneye, personally.

Yeah, Perfect Dark > Goldeneye.

I'm someone who preferred GE over PD.

From memory I think I enjoyed the levels more, the first 2 on Goldeneye are classics, the one in the snow, the one in the forest are also good, the last level are all good. I can't really remember many PD levels despite playing it more later on in life.

And while PD had some very good weapons, and the dual functions, it had some rubbish ones to. Human weapons & shooting people always > alien weapons & shooting aliens.

Think Halo CE deserves to be higher.

Bizarrely I was thinking about this at lunch for some reason, despite loving Halo 2 online the single player was such a disappointment that I think that's why it doesn't feature highly.

Good list, but there so many quality FPS titles a definite top ten is a lot harder to put together. As an example Unreal Tournament, Quake 1&2, System Shock, Stalker, Black are all worthy of high praise

Definitely shows a console bias, there's absolutely no way Timesplitters 2 is the 5th best FPS game ever made, but a lot of people hear clearly played it and so its on the list.

HSH28 wrote:Definitely shows a console bias, there's absolutely no way Timesplitters 2 is the 5th best FPS game ever made, but a lot of people hear clearly played it and so its on the list.

It is just the opinion of members of one gaming forum though. Some quality choices there nevertheless.

HSH28 wrote:Definitely shows a console bias, there's absolutely no way Timesplitters 2 is the 5th best FPS game ever made, but a lot of people hear clearly played it and so its on the list.

Yeah, it's the 1st best 8^)