The combat arenas with space to plan and improvise.
Rules that made shooters easy to master with a controller – two primaries and a pistol, swappable with the face buttons, instead of 11 weapons you cycled between using the number keys on a keyboard or your mousewheel. Swap in the later games, or even Destiny and its sequel here if you’d prefer, because what we’re really celebrating is the set of rules Bungie established in Halo.
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That does mean just one game from each series though – otherwise you’d be about to read a lot of Quake and Half-Life entries. Look, we just chose the best 15 shooters, ok? Get off our backs. So we didn’t – instead we built a vast learning AI, made it play every FPS released since the dawn of time, and provide us an empirical ranking of their quality. That makes picking just 15 of them a hard task. At this point, its library is so rich that it can even parody itself from years past, and to great effect. It’s shapeshifted into something athletes can devote their lives to and fill arenas through their talents, but it’s also been there to ask us uncomfortable questions about what we see on the news. Perhaps more than any other genre, a list of the best shooters tells a story about the medium and what we wanted from it at the time.
Whenever the newspapers needed a moral panic, shooters were happy to provide one. When we all got online, shooters were there to show us why that was exciting. Once they were a vehicle for tech innovation, then everyone’s favorite storytelling medium.
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