"Shooters have once again packed store shelves this year, and it was a great year for fans of the genre. 2K Games, EA, and of course Activison as it was a significant improvement from last year’s effort. Yes there were bad games, but they were very far between. The constant theme this year was story, and success was found. Borderlands 2 witty writing was still there that created many memorable moments, Black ops 2 surprising has a deep storyline with player choices built in was smartly designed, and Master Chief returned in Halo 4 marking beginning of the Reclaimer trilogy. Regardless of what you think of the genre, we had plenty of red targets to shoot at, experience points to gain, and plenty of people to shoot through our Internet connection. So lets recap the top five shooters of 2012."
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Modder ‘alexsavvy’ has released a must-have mod for Max Payne 3 that is a love letter to all fans of the original game.
great list .. mp3 definitely is the best shooter this year in my book. followed by borderland 2.. spec ops!! ..bo2.. etc
syndicate was by far the most disappointing game I played this year .. I was really looking for the next starbreeze games ( The darkness 1 was one of my favorite shooter this gen .. also riddick of 2004 was awesome) although the game is good but I really hoped that it be more than that.
I can't stand sites that make you click on separate pages; if other sites can keep everything to 1-2 pages, why can't other sites do the same thing? Because of that I didn't even read the article, so I hold 0 say so about the games selected.
Just finished Max Payne 3 - damn that was a good game. I almost said Meh because I thought I had missed it this year.