15 Best Sci-fi Shooters of all Time

GR - "Videogames are heavily influenced by the science fiction genre—arguably the most creative of genres, limited only by the extent of scientific possibility (which isn't very limited at all) and imagination. To pay tribute to the SF genre, we've come up with a list of the 15 best sci-fi shooters of all time."

[thugbob]

I agree with games on the list, but not the order.

[Dwalls1171]

KILLZONE

[thugbob]

Yeah, Killzone deserves to be on the list even though one of the games falls short(KZ3). KZ1's story and KZ2's MP are spectacular and are highly unappreciated.

[otherZinc]

Absolutely,

Killzone should never be on the best of anything list!

Also, the order is terrible or they should say "in no particular order"!

[piroh]

in my opinion TPSs are far better than FPSs but if i had to choose one then Killzone

atmosphere is fantastic, graphics groundbreaking, feel of weapon weight realistic

[Pikajew]

How do you know how much the weapons weight?

[SonyStyled]

you got to play them to expirience it

[piroh]

@Pikajew

i'm not 16 years old

[GamingForever]

15 games I should play but never have the time for...

[iamnsuperman]

For anyone finding it a pain reloading the page 15 times
15 Perfect dark
14 Metroid Prime Series
13 Gears of War
12 Unreal series
11 Crysis series
10 Killzone series
9 Halo series
8 Dead space series
7 Bioshock series
6 Borderlands series
5 Portal series
4 Half Life 2 (plus Episode 1 and 2)
3 Mass effect series
2 System shock 2
1 Deus Ex series

Nice list but like thugbob said not the order

[MysticStrummer]

Thank you. Hate these one entry per page lists. I disagree about the quality of the list though. You can tell this does not come from someone with a long history of gaming. Borderlands is viewed as a series, yet the first Half Life gets snubbed. No Resistance series. No Doom series. Even ignoring the order, it's not a good list.

[Hicken]

Well said. I was expecting Doom to be pretty high up there, and saw Borderlands as being too high, among other things. And no Tribes, either? Suspect list is suspect.

[TenPThor]

Portal isn't a shooter.

[GunofthePatriots]

is gears of war even sci fi??

[Flashwave_UK]

yes the guys are to fat to be real

[MOTY]

o.O

Some of the most muscular characters in gaming history and you call them "fat".

LOL. Talk about hating.

[krazykombatant]

Where is starwars????

Republic Commando???

Battlefront!!

KOTOR?!?!?!?

Agree with some of the ones in the list (NOT THE ORDER)

[BrightFalls76]

Killzone series doesn't deserve to be on there. On first site the graphics look amazing but upon playing the games you realize you have incredibliy small paths to stick to. I would put Killzone on a list of 15 worst shooters on the controls alone.

[MysticStrummer]

What a surprise.

[BrightFalls76]

I wasn't surprised that Killzone 3 was a pretty looking game with average campaign, characters and crap controls.

[vyke3]

@BrightFalls76
wait... so you're saying that games like gears of war are linear its ok? but when Killzone does it its bad?

Troll harder next time.

[Morgue]

He only joined 12 days ago what do you expect.

[vyke3]

@Morgue lol

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

You forgot to state "in my opinion". Which, by the way, you seem to be throwing around as fact a lot.

[Ayepecks]

Seriously? Killzone 2 is one of the best exclusives of this generation. It's easily on par with the quality of Halo 3, ODST and Reach, if not above the quality set by those games.

[smashcrashbash]

Excuse me, where is Resistance? How can you make a Scifi shooter list and blatently leave out Resistance? I reject this list!!! @ BrightFalls76 what do small paths have to do with it being good? You act as if FPSs just let you go anywhere. All FPSs are basically linear. Just because you can walk into an empty building or a short stroll through a park doesn't really change that

[GTRrocker]

I can't believe Borderlands made the list and the Resistance series didn't. Borderlands had zero story at all. I wouldn't even call it sci fi.

[MysticStrummer]

I agree that Resistance should be included, but to say Borderlands isn't sci-fi is silly. Borderlands would be on my list, but so would Resistance.

[otherZinc]

Did you guys play Resistance 2? It sucked so damn hard no one is pre-ordering the game.

Stop Saying Resistance! Who is going to buy that s***! Damn game is awful and you guys know it.

Resistance will sell 200,000 for the month & it will take a pack-n for 2 years to have respectable trick pack-in sales numbers.

[GTRrocker]

I loved Resistance 2 when it first came out

[The_KELRaTH]

Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Tribe all out rank his top 15 but for me Unreal Tournament '99 is No.1

[Ayepecks]

Wolfenstein isn't really sci-fi.

[The_KELRaTH]

Killing dead Nazi zombiies and Nazi created super soldiers sounds Sci- fi to me :)

[TheFirstClassic]

Resistance should be on this list instead of killzone.

[Tanir]

lol so funny cuz most of those were born in this over saturated market of shooters this gen :P

good games tho

[DiRtY]

Borderlands > Gears of War... come on.

terrible list.

[Cpt_kitten]

i would replace portal with doom or quake

[kma2k]

sorry but gears is criminally low ranked.

[Son_Lee]

Dead Space and Mass Effect for me.

[KFox109]

Perfect Dark should be higher. Metroid Prime should be nowhere near that list as a series. Only Corruption should be on there.

[Ayepecks]

You should have stopped after your first sentence, IMO. The first Metroid Prime game was fantastic, Corruption's obviously great, and the other game (Echoes? Can't recall) wasn't too bad.

It'd be like disqualifying the Halo series just because of Halo 2.

[HeavenlySnipes]

the only one in the world that finds all the Bioshock games terrible lol.

[Morgue]

Where's RUN LIKE HELL & MEGA MAN???

[RedHotChiliPepaSpray]

In my opinion Resistance should be in the list

[TheOtherTheoG]

Hmm. I like numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, and they would almost certainly be my top 4, albeit in a different order (Half-Life series, then Deus Ex, then System Shock, then Mass Effect). Portal... does it count? Brilliant games, but I'd leave it out. I have no idea why Borderlands is so high, I don't really see why it's on the list, I'd put Bioshock, Halo, Metroid Prime (why so low?), and almost certainly Doom in the next three positions. Then... Dead Space maybe, on a good day, Unreal, Perfect Dark, then probably Gears of War and either Resistance, Killzone or Crysis, none of which are really that good, in comparison to the rest of the list, they don't nearly have the same pedigree nor the same consistent level of quality, but are still pretty good. My personal opinion...

[Relientk77]

Timesplitters 2, Future Perfect
Halo 1, 2
Resistance
Quake 2
Bioshock
Borderlands