1. Half-Life (1998)

You can point to a ton of reasons as to why the first Half Life is one of the best shooters ever made, but for the purposes of being brief, we’ll pick out our favourite: the immersion factor. Unlike a ton of other FPS games, Half-Life’s plot and environment conspired to make players feel they were starring in their own action film and made them feel a part of a world they could affect in immediate ways. That may not sound revolutionary today – since that aspect of shooter is now industry-standard – but back when shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem didn’t give a hoot about things like narrative or plot, Half Life seemed not only fresh, but vital too.

Platform: Windows

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What are the best FPS games of all time? T3 has had a go at building our own list of great shooters, taking you from Doom's hellish Martian moons to the lush jungles of Far Cry 3...

Few gaming genres stimulate the animated discussion that FPS games do. For every gamer who thinks Call of Duty is the greatest thing ever to happen to home consoles, there's a horde of others who despise everything it stands for. First person shooter popularity has given rise to swathes of middle-of-the-road shooters, so in the interests of separating the wheat from the chaff, here are the FPS games we think no-one should miss out on.

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