There are a total of 16 missions that vary in length. During this walkthrough, I will pretend that you have put the game on a normal difficulty because we are going to focus on the fastest completion.
Chapter 1 : Deathshead Compound
Collectibles: ( Watch this first if you do not wish to miss any collectibles)
You start this game on board of your plane where you will have to carry out some rather basic tasks to familiarize yourself with the controls and general 'feel' of this game. You have to repair some things, pull some levers, shoot some planes from a turret, and slap a traumatized private across the face.
Once you are done shooting planes, you will unlock:
Once you have done all of those things, it's time to jump from one plane to another, and chances are this is where you will earn your first death. Do not jump too early, or you will bounce off the wing of the plane that you have to land on and fall to your rather pathetic first death in Wolfenstein. If done correctly, you will get a cinematic crash landing.
After you have gained control of your character, you should answer a radio. It turns out some of your fellow marines are in distress, and you have to help them. You can do this by exiting your own plane through the back and diving your way to the other plane. This plane features a turret much like the one you have used a few minutes earlier to take down the planes. This time around, we are going to use it to take down 2 puppies on steroids called 'Kampfhunds'. They should go down easily, and once they are dead, you can freely exit your turret and team up with Fergus and his men.
He will order you to take care of a bunker that is straight ahead. You can sprint straight to your marker here through the trenchline and the broken plane. After you have passed through the broken plane, you need to go right, but before you do, you might want to hold up a few seconds and watch your left. There will be 2 Nazi troopers walking beneath you, and if you want, you can shoot them in the back. Once you are inside the bunker, you can pick up a grenade that is right in front of you. You need this grenade to destroy the automated turret that is firing at your buddies from within this bunker. Destroy the turret and locate the hole in the ground that is on the other side of the bunker you are currently in. If you drop through this hole, you will be in a storage room that contains ammo, a few weapons, and armor. There is a door in this storage room with a small hole at the bottom of the door. Here you will get the tutorial on how to lean across corners and how to shoot under and over objects. If you look through this door, you will notice a boot. This might come as a surprise to you, but the boot is actually attached to an entire Nazi, and I recommend that you shoot it. It's worth noting that the Nazi on the other side of the door is not actually dead but is merely wounded and waiting for you to open the door with a sidearm in his hand. When you open the door, be sure to finish him off.
After you have shot this Nazi, pick up his assault rifle. You will now get a pop up about dual wielding. Hold the 
button, and switch to dual wielded assault rifles. Dual wielding disables your possibility of aiming down your sights, but it increases your damage, and it's required for certain achievements, so I suggest you switch to dual wield now. After this dead Nazi, look to your left. There is a trench line with a handful of alarmed soldiers in there that you need to take care of. Try to go for at least 3 headshots (you will get an achievement for that at a later point during this mission). At the end of this trench line, you can either go right into another trench or head up the stairs on your left into a bunker. Eventually, both routes lead you to the same location, but the route through the bunker has a few enemies and quite a lot of supplies such as grenades, armor, and ammo. It also contains a map of the region so I recommend taking the bunker route. Take the backdoor out of the bunker after you are done picking up what you wish to pick up. You are now once again back on the battlefield, and you can head to the left back into the trenches. On your left side is a 40HP ammo pack. If you proceed any further in this trench, then you will be attacked by a Kampfhund that jumps on top of you and tries bite your head off, be prepared for this. You can get these puppies off you by repeatedly stabbing them. So once it jumps on top of you, bash your right stick quickly.
After the dog, the trenches will let you take a right and after that a left. These trenches are filled with enemies. If you have taken my advice of switching to dual wield weapons, you should be unlocking this achievement during this section.
Once you have cleared out this trench, you will notice another bunker at the end. Now; we are going to play the rest of this mission as stealthy as possible because it's possible to obtain nearly all of the stealth related achievements in the first mission already so we might as well get that over with. Once you ascend the stairs to the bunker, hit the 
button to start crouchwalking. In the hallway of the bunker, you will get a tutorial pop up about 'commanders'. If you manage to stealth kill these guys, they will update your map, and depending on whether or not you have been detected prior to that point, reveal collectibles on your map. When you are behind him, hit 
. This will unlock:
Another soldier will be inside this bunker who is firing out of the window and not paying all that much attention to you. Take him down with a stealth takedown as well (crouch up to him and stab him once you get the "
" symbol in your screen). Loot the bunker for anything you might need, and then sneak out the backdoor. Another soldier will be standing with his back towards you. Stab this one as well, and head through the empty trench. At the end of the trench, you will see 3 enemies, 2 commanders and 2 soldiers. Head to the commander first, and once again, take him out. There should be an enemy on the left side with his back towards you. You can take this one out as well, and finally, you can take care of the one on the right. If you have taken them out stealthily, then you should now unlock :
Unlocking this achievement also unlocks a throwing knife that you can throw with the same button as you use to melee. It will automatically throw a knife if you hit the button when you are not within melee range of an enemy. Throwing knifes can be picked up after they are thrown, just loot the body that you have just killed or wherever your knife has flown off to.
On your right is a bunker with a few torpedoes in it. We have no business there yet. Instead, follow the trench to the left where you just killed the 2nd enemy (the one that was on the left). If you follow this route, you will come to the first section where there is a difference between ÜBER difficulty and the other difficulties. On UBER, there will be 3 enemies there, and on the lower difficulties, only 2. One of them is a commander. In order to do this stealth, hug to the left side of the area and pass under the broken piece of scrapmetal. The commander will having his back faced towards you. Although you have the option to stealth kill him, I suggest you use your throwing knife instead. Pick up your throwing knife from his body and head into the bunker that was behind him. There is a bomb there that we will need in a bit. First, we need to take care of the other enemies that are in the area. It is sort of tricky to take them both out stealthy, but it's doable. Only the commander was able to call for reinforcements, so take care of them any way you want to, but I recommend that you take down at least one with a pistol headshot. If you have been making the Assault Rifle headshot kills earlier, you should now unlock:
Now would be a good time to start watching the collectible video at the start of this section.
You have the bomb, and you now have two options. You can either blast through the big steel door that should now be right in front of you. This makes it easier for you to obtain the collectible that should be directly to your right after you blast the door open, but the downside is that every enemy and their mothers will be alarmed and will take positions on the turrets that are facing you. Stealth will be unheard if you opt for this approach. Alternatively, you can head over to the bunker with the torpedoes on the right side of where you obtained your throwing knife and blast through the floor there for a stealth approach. I suggest you pick the latter approach. Head through the tunnel into the large cave room. If you follow the room to the left, you will come to the other side of the big steel door (that is now not-blown up), and you can pick up the collectible. (1/7) Enigma Code Piece
As for the next section...I have said that we want to focus on stealth, but this happens to be a prime opportunity to pick up a few achievements that might otherwise prove challenging so we are going to grind this checkpoint a little bit. You should be unseen when you are at the bottom of this room. Most if not all enemies are at the metal structure with the turrets that is in the middle of the room (you should be more or less below this structure if you enter the room through the stealth tunnel after the torpedoes). At this point, I suggest you make your presence known so that the enemies will be alarmed. Hide under the metal structure, and the alarmed enemies will make their way downstairs. There will be a lot of enemies close to each other, and over here, you can focus on 2 achievements. 1. Kill 3 enemies with dual wield assault rifles without releasing the triggers and 2. Kill 3 enemies while sliding. Both of these achievements can be easily earned later on in the game, but they so happen to unlock other challenges that are rather time-consuming so we want to allow ourselves to start working on these new challenges as soon as we can.
Chances are that you are going to die during this Endeavour but that is okay. Challenge progress will be kept even if you die and are sent back to your last checkpoint. Just run towards enemies, hit while sprinting, and unleash the magazines of your dual assault rifles into enemies. If you have done this 3 times, you will unlock.
This will allow you to work on the next challenge that can be done here. Hit 
and reload your checkpoint or intentionally die so you can attempt to kill 3 people with dual assault rifles without releasing the triggers. Just wait for a couple of enemies to cluster together at the bottom of the stairs and then ascend the stairs while you keep firing. There is probably one enemy sitting next or behind the first turret. This may take a few attempts. Eventually, it will unlock. If not, then do not be troubled. You will get another shot at this achievement within less than 20 seconds.
I suggest you continue with the guns blazing approach. We will pick up with stealth later. Make your way up the stairs of the metal structure Before you ascend them, walk underneath them until you see a vent shaft at the left in a wall. Crawl through that vent until you reach a room with several corpses on autopsy tables. This is where you will find the 2nd collectible in this level (1/5) Gold Medal . Back to the stairs... Once you reach the top level, you will encounter 3 enemies. Right in front of you at the top of the stairs will be a grenade sitting on a crate. Pick this up. Wait for the alarmed enemies to more or less cluster together and then throw your grenade. This should unlock :
If you do not pick this up here, then you can choose to reload the checkpoint, but you will get plenty of opportunities to obtain this throughout regular gameplay. Just do not forget to throw your grenades often. There are also enough enemies up here to get the Scavenger achievement that requires you kill 3 enemies with dual wield assault rifles without releasing the triggers, if you had not done that at the bottom of the stairs already.
In the back of this floor are 2 bunk rooms that contain the usual supplies if you need them. Head back up another flight of stairs, and you are now at the top level where you will see some minecarts and boxes. Your enemies will be on your right. Take these out any way you see fit. Headshot kills, kills from cover (while using the 
aim function), and dual wield kills count towards the long term challenges that require you to get 50+ of these kills, so I suggest you loosely focus on those, but don't sweat it if you do not manage to make any of those kills now.
Once you have taken out the enemies on the right hand side, you will see a FLAK-88 anti-aircraft cannon. Take down the guy operating the cannon if you haven't already and take his seat. You need to fire a few shots at the giant robot that is in front of you. After a few shots, it will come crashing down, and you can continue. Take a right through the door, the occasional enemy may pop up behind the door. When you head up the stairs you are confronted with the choice of either ascending the stairs on the left or heading into the room on the right. Go into the room on the right first. Hit the levers in the following order 1. Left 2. Right 3. Middle. This will open a secret door to a room that contains a collectible (2/7) Enigma Code Piece, but more importantly: you will find the silencer upgrade for your handgun on the shelf. You can attach it with the 
button. It's better not to aim down sights with the handgun. The sight is horrible and the crosshair that you get when you hip fire it is much better because it will turn red when it's aimed at an enemy so it's much easier to make headshots with it that way. A silenced headshot counts as a pistol kill, stealth kill, as well as a headshot, and if you dual wield pistols, it also counts as a dual wield kill. These all happen to be long term challenges so I recommend that you use this weapon a lot. It is instant kill on a headshot regardless of range. As long as the crosshair turns red, it's a kill no matter if the enemy is 1 feet or 1 mile away from you.
Now head up the stairs on the left. This is a hallway once again filled with enemies. Take them out, and head up the stairs at the end of the hallway. Do not forget the collectible (1/1) Oskar's Letter that is on the barracks on the right halfway up the stairs, with the red lights. The collectible is a letter on the bed. Move up the stairs, and take down the enemy that is on the turret. Behind him is another flak turret that you need to operate. This time, aim to the left, and shoot at the crashed plane that is blocking your passage. Hop out of the turret and go through the door on your right. Pay close attention here because there is a crate here with a blanket over it. There is a collectible right next to the crate under the blanket. It's very easily missable (2/5) Gold Goblet.
Continue up the stairs until you see a big vault door. Your objective is to open that door but once you do you will be attacked by a big attack dog. You will need to shoot this one (contrary to stabbing it, as with the normal dogs). Once you Wyatt (your buddy) will play a deadly game of fetch with the dog and save your ass. He will offer you his hand to pull you up. Do not take him up on his offer just yet. Instead, run through the big vault door that you just opened, and pick up the collectible that is within the bunker (3/7) Enigma Code Piece. Now take Wyatt's hand. This will trigger a cinematic.
You will have to scale a building. Watch out for windows that open up, Nazis will pop out and shoot at you. Return fire, and they will fall to their misery. An additional risk is falling rubble. Being hit by this rubble won't kill you but it's a waste of healthpoints. Once you make it up there, you need to pull a lever which raises a gate and lowers two blocks of concrete. Jump down one of those holes where the concrete blocks just got lowered into.
You can now continue with the stealth approach, and I suggest you do so. In the alley right in front of you will be a guard coming from the right side that will walk away from you. I suggest that you try to use your silenced pistol on the majority of the enemies that you are about to face. I will not attempt to detail how you need to walk in the upcoming section, because it is a maze of small alleys and rooms. Try to crouch walk and shoot any enemy that you face between the eyes. There are two areas where you need to pay attention. When you come to an alley with a big hole in the floor that you need to cross by walking over a few planks that have been placed over the hole, you need to drop down to grab a collectible that is in the alley you drop down into. (4/7) Enigma Code Piece The other area is a dining room that also has a commander in it. This room contains a golden goblet that you need to pick up. (3/5) Gold Chalice
Clear out this section of the castle until you reach a set of stairs that lead you to a room where you will see a prominent painting of a Nazi commander on the wall, a few sleeping dogs in front of it, and knight statues near the walls. One of the knights is holding a golden sword that is a collectible and that you need. (4/5) Gold Sword, and the knight that is to the left of the painting holds a sword that opens a secret door behind the painting if you interact with it. Go into the tunnel and follow it until the end. Halfway into the tunnel, you will notice blocks with a handle on it. You can remove these to create holes in the wall that allow you to look (and shoot) into the next section of the castle. I suggest you remove the 2nd block you come across (the one on the left) and take down the guard that is standing next to the door. Either way, proceed to the end of the secret tunnel and push the fence aside. You will now be in an office with a commander that is on the phone. Take out this commander and pick up the collectible that is on his desk. (5/7) Enigma Code Piece.
When leaving his office, turn left, and there will be a large dining room with a commander and kampfhund in it. If you have been taking out all enemies with the silenced pistol as I have suggested, you will now unlock 2 achievements:
You can leave this section of the castle by exiting the dining room through the window in the dining room You will be at a balcony. If you look to your left, you will see a catwalk below you with a handful of enemies on it. If you have not unlocked this achievement earlier, you can attempt to kill 2 enemies with a grenade here again. Cross the balcony, take out the enemies in the windows in front of you and below you, and then jump through the window on the other side of the balcony. On your right will be another set of stairs. At the top of these stairs, a dog will charge at you. Take care of the dog. Now I recommend that you watch the collectible video if you haven't already because there is a collectible hidden inside one of the crates in this room (5/5) Gold Floorball Trophy.( it's on the left, where the dog was coming from). At the end of this room are 2 soldiers trying to drag a turret towards a window. Take care of them and move further.
You will now come to a section with a turret. Click 
briefly in order to mount the turret without detaching it.If you have unlocked the achievements of killing enemies while sliding and killing enemies with dual wielded assault rifles without releasing the right trigger then you should now have the challenge where you have to kill 20 enemies with a mounted machine gun. This upcoming section is one of the premier opportunities to get this achievement, so use that turret and start gunning down Nazis. There are more than 20 nazis in this section, but if you have not unlocked it at the end of this section, then you can hit and reload your checkpoint to get the last few kills that you need.
Now that we have obtained this achievement, you should reload the chapter again and this time you should detach the turret from its socket and try to get 5 kills in 10 seconds with it. Wait for enemies to cluster together and then mow them down. This will unlock:
Once all enemies are dead, head to the right. There will be a section in the wall on your right hand side that has a hole in it. This hole has another collectible inside it. (6/7) Enigma Code Piece Once you have the collectible, proceed to the left where you will have to team up with your buddies by removing a piece of rubble. After you have done so you need to jump to the other side of a big gab. This will trigger a cinematic where you fall in a a rather sinister torture room. You need to find a key to get out of the room. There will be a couple of drawers. The drawer that is closest to the door you wish to exit from (on the far right) has a collectible inside it, the key is on the drawer that is at the far left, against the other wall. (7/7) Enigma Code Piece. Pick up the wounded marine and head into the next room.
In this next room, you will be attacked by a genetically modified mechanical soldier. If you shoot him in the head a few times, then his protection will fall off, and he will go down in no time. He doesn't have any weapons other than his fists so just keep your distance. Once he is down, you will get another cinematic where you are cornered by General Deathshead.
General Deathshead will provide you with a choice between your two buddies. You need to save one. This is where the missable achievements of this game come into play. Each choice earns you an unique achievement, but you can only pick one. Unless you intend to immediately replay this first mission, then I suggest you pick the one you wish to stick with because the choice is going to have some consequences for how your story will play out. It has an effect on the story, how you can access certain areas in the game (hotwiring versus lockpicking), but primarily, it has consequences for whether or not you can upgrade your health or your energy.
If you save Fergus, then you will have the option to increase your maximum health, and that is by far the more useful attribute compared to upgrading your energy. I highly recommend picking Fergus.
Whatever choice you make, you will unlock one of these two achievements:
After the cutscene, you will be given a pipe that you can use to kill the big soldier that is holding down Fergus (or Wyatt). Once the big guy is dead, jump on top of the surgical tables, and hit the incinerators. Once that is done, Fergus will smash your handcuffs off and tell you to hotwire the window open. You can hotwire by quickly getting the two wires to connect by using your left and right thumbstick.
Jump out of the window, and you are done with chapter 1.
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The Best FPS Games On PC In 2021
What are the best FPS games on PC? From the classic physics chaos of Half-Life 2 to Overwatch’s incredible guns, these are the finest FPS games.
For more than two decades, the best FPS games have been the driving force of the PC games industry. They’ve let us travel from the depths of Hell in Doom to the outer reaches of space in Titanfall 2. Others have taken us on a detour through the likes of Half-Life 2’s zombie-infested Ravenholm, while some have embraced futuristic cities.
Some of these FPS games are old, others are new, all are great. Wolfenstein 2’s amazing campaign; Rainbow Six Siege and its tight tactical multiplayer; Overwatch and its vast array of amazing heroes. No matter what sort of virtual gunplay you’re after, the following FPS games will satisfy your itchy trigger finger.
So crack those knuckles, get ready to make all the headshots, and keep in mind that guns will solve all your problems in the following shooty gems. These are the best FPS games on PC. We hope your aim isn’t off…
The best FPS games are:
Black MesaBlack Mesa is a remake of Half Life 1, created entirely by fans using the latest Source engine. It took 15 years before Black Mesa reached its 1.0 release, but it finally happened in 2020, and it was well worth the wait. The remake is a reimagined version of the classic single player campaign, eliminating any dated puzzles and combat sequences to create a succinct experience. The developers even created their own expanded version of the Alien planet, Xen, the final section of Half Life 1 that was reportedly cut short by Valve.
Although there’s no denying Half Life 1 is a spectacular game, and putting aside what it did for PC gaming, its gameplay isn’t perfect, but the tweaks in Black Mesa iron out those issues. If you haven’t experienced the first Half Life game and you want to see what you’ve missed out on, Black Mesa is the best way to relive this classic FPS.
DOOM ETERNALDoom Eternal takes the gameplay loop of the 2016 smash hit and ramps everything up to 11. The developers could’ve easily pumped out a sequel that played largely the same as Doom 2016, but they chose to take each core mechanic to another level. Every aspect has been improved, from the amount of weapons you have at your disposal, to the movement options that increase the pace of the game.
With all of this extra power comes stronger enemies, equipped with their own set of strengths and weaknesses for you to exploit. You could play Doom 2016 using just one weapon if you really wanted to, but Doom Eternal punishes players for sticking to the same game plan. Unless you kill enemies using the range of tools at your disposal, you’re always going to be low on resources.
Borrowing elements from the best action games, Doom Eternal transforms into a lightning fast shooter that makes players think creatively as they wipe out hordes of Hell’s worst creatures. There’s a good reason why Doom Eternal was our GOTY for 2020, it truly is spectacular.
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WARHot on the heels of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot and Warzone, Black Ops – Cold War needed to excel in order to maintain the high bar set by Infinity Ward. Fortunately, Cold War lives up to expectations and the result is a game that feels snappy and fast-paced, two big requisites when it comes to creating a popular Call of Duty game.
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Cold War leans into the silliness of its alternate history setting, allowing the devs to throw operators like Rambo and John McClane into the mix. The campaign even features multiple endings, including one that sees Russia win the Cold War. The highlight of the game has to be the multiplayer mode which is regularly updated with new content every two months. This isn’t just restricted to multiplayer maps either, brand new modes have been added to the game, like the large-scale Zombies Outbreak mode.
OVERWATCHCompare it to Team Fortress 2 or to League of Legends if you like – Overwatch has enough in common with both to share some of their appeal, but different enough that it will take months for players to figure out its best character combinations.
Overwatch is about teamwork: little is made of who killed you or how many headshots you amassed. More important is how you managed to revive a vital sniper on the capture point as Mercy, or pushed the payload forwards with Reinhart’s shield, or otherwise managed to win a round using your eclectic mixed bag of abilities.
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While it was a little light on features at launch, regular Overwatch updates are coming all the time, with new Overwatch heroes being added, too. Overwatch League has also crystallised the game’s e-sports potential. Don’t worry if you’re not all about eight-hour practice sessions, though – half the charm is the pick-up-and-play appeal, which cements Overwatch as one of the best FPS games on PC.
COUNTER-STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVEThrowing yourself into the world of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the first time is like diving into a modern warfare meat grinder. You will face players who have been prowling versions of these maps for more than a decade. You will die to snipers with tens of thousands of kills notched into their Scout. You will be punished by players who could recite CS:GO console commands in their sleep, sitting out the rest of the round while you rue your mistake.
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Why, then, would you choose to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive? Because working your way up to the top of the leaderboards is an achievement; a reward earned through patience, skill, and muscle memory. And it has some of the best level design in games. There’s a reason why, even today, you will find servers running ancient maps like Dust 2 day in, day out; in part, because regular CS:GO updates forever keep this shooter fresh.
But Global Offensive is a modern game and brings modern ways of playing. It is now partly funded through the sale of cosmetics and weapon skins, like Team Fortress 2. It includes automatic matchmaking, guiding you away from the dedicated servers that made the series what it is today. And there are ranks, giving the elitists a visible badge for their dedication, alongside medals for veterans.
HALF-LIFE 2So much more than an evolution of its superb predecessor, Half-Life 2 is frequently hailed as the best PC games of all time. Such accolades are not undeserved, either. The long-awaited sequel to Half-Life is hugely ambitious, benefiting from being developed by a much more confident Valve.
Everything is bigger than the 1998 original: the environments, the enemies, the story – it’s a blockbuster, but a smart one. There are decent AI companions; real characters who exist to do more than die comically; physics that transform the world into a seemingly real, tangible place.
Valve again works magic with its environments. Despite often being larger and more open than Half-Life’s, they are still crafted with the same care and attention to detail. And, importantly, they remain memorable, from the haunted streets of Ravenholm to the ominous Citadel, standing over City 17 like a steel and glass tyrant. Age may have worn away some of the sheen, but it remains a striking, compelling FPS game.
RAINBOW SIX SIEGEThanks to continued support from Ubisoft, Rainbow Six Siege is almost completely unrecognisable from the so-so shooter that emerged with a whimper rather than a bang in 2015. Now, with its burgeoning e-sports scene, a constant flow of Rainbow Six Siege operators, and some of the best multiplayer gameplay around, it has become one of the best shooting games on PC.
Every moment of Siege’s boxed-in battles is fraught with tension and danger, from the moment you start scouting an area with your drone – praying your enemies don’t spot it before you can find the hostage – to that final attempt to save the day by shooting down walls and smashing through the ceiling. Its asymmetrical multiplayer and tactical openness mean no round plays out the same way.
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It is a psychological battle as much as it is a series of gunfights; a game about manipulation and control as you attempt to make your foes react in specific ways while you try to keep your own team working together. You never feel safe: an attack can come from anywhere, usually everywhere all at once. After all these years of feeling safe behind walls, Siege’s destructible environments force you to think on your feet and trust no wall.
Siege features a relatively high barrier to entry, but unsure players can jump into the fray cheaply with the Rainbow Six Siege Starter Edition. For those who take to Rainbow’s punishing gameplay, you can be assured Ubisoft Montreal’s shooter is here to stay with new seasons and content coming all the time.
Escape from TarkovThere are countless FPS games that tout their realism, but none come close to the obsessive attention to detail paid by Escape from Tarkov’s dev team when it comes to guns, attachments, and ballistics modelling. Not only are there upwards of 60 guns in Escape from Tarkov, but each one can be modded up or stripped down to the point where they’re unrecognisable from their off-the-shelf counterparts. You can swap barrels, mounts, scopes, flashlights, foregrips, pistol grips, handguards, muzzle attachments, stocks, charging handles, magazines, receivers, gas blocks, and choose from several different types of round for each ammo type. No two weapons you find in-raid are ever the same.
This leads to plenty of malfunctions for new players and anyone who, er, doesn’t know much about guns. However, after stacks of wasted roubles and an inventory packed full of useless attachments, you’ll soon start figuring out how to fit each attachment before finally forming an emotional bond with your custom build. That last part is especially important as in Escape from Tarkov, if you die in a raid and an enemy loots your body, you’ll lose everything you brought in with you, even your treasured assault rifle.
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These brutal rules can make Escape from Tarkov incredibly intimidating for new players, but while it’s easy to lose your valuable gear, it’s just as easy to go into a raid with little more than a pistol and extract with some of the best armour and weapons in the game. Thanks to a player-driven economy, you can even loot a seemingly worthless object like a statue and trade it for a brand-new HK416.
EfT also stands out from other FPS and multiplayer games on this list as it mixes PvP and PvE so seamlessly. Every raid plays out on a massive map with players spawning around the edges and AI enemies spawning in at key points of interest, usually where good loot can be found. From the start of the match, you have up to 40 minutes to kill, plunder, and make it to one of the designated extraction points. If you die you’ll only get the gear you insured beforehand back, and only if it’s not been looted from your body first. So, how do you escape from Tarkov? Well, extraction points are always on the opposite side of the map where you spawned in, so making it through a raid without encountering an enemy is virtually unheard of.
TITANFALL 2EA and Respawn built on everything the first game got right and balanced this shooter sequel’s multiplayer so well it became one of the best PC games of 2016. There’s nothing quite like Titanfall 2’s juxtaposition of crunchy, industrial mech brawling and nimble pilot combat. As you’ll see in our Titanfall 2 campaign review, the solo portion of this FPS also serves as both an excellent intro to the game’s mechanics and a charming, self-contained narrative.
The campaign never tries to outdo the gameplay with epic setpieces or blockbuster bombast. Instead, the raw mechanics serve up all the thrills: wall-running at a group of enemies and blowing them away with a few, unnervingly satisfying blasts of your shotgun feels exhilarating every time. What’s more, the PC version holds up wonderfully as we saw in our Titanfall 2 PC port review.
Respawn has not only added depth to single-player; a four-player co-op wave mode is an excellent companion to the competitive multiplayer that contains a wide variety of Titanfall 2 classes. Titanfall 2 is a bigger and better beast than before, and a breath of fresh air for the mech games genre as a whole.
While there’s no word on a Titanfall 3, Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale Apex Legends is set in the same universe. Sure, the wall-running is gone, but Apex Legends weapons like the Mozambique and Hemlock serve as a fitting nod to this developer’s wonderful past.
WOLFENSTEIN 2: THE NEW COLOSSUSWolfenstein: The New Order effectively made the case that a good dose of Nazi-bashing and a decent yarn are not mutually exclusive. MachineGames had their work cut out with the sequel, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, but they certainly delivered.
As you can find out in our Wolfenstein 2 PC review, this is an incredible follow-up to a very strong reboot… even if some sections can get a little gun-heavy. MachineGames once again show that they can tell an engaging story to match the copious shooty slaughter. Blowing out the brains of Wolfenstein 2’s Nazis offers constant punchy thrills, and every setpiece has been turned emphatically up to 11.
Rudely awakened from your hospital bed after the defeat of the subtly-named Wilhelm “Deathshead” Strasse, you return once more as the bellicose B.J. Blazkowicz to try to trigger a Second American Revolution. With the infamous swastika adorning the US, you’ll want to look at our Wolfenstein 2 weapons guide to familiarise yourself with Blaz’s arsenal. A breathless, high-octane thrill ride from start to finish, Wolfenstein 2 is undoubtedly one of the best shooting games on PC.
Oh, and don’t forget to check out our Wolfenstein 2 perks guide. With the right powers equipped, those despicable digital Nazis don’t stand a chance.
LEFT 4 DEAD 2Valve’s zombies are not like other zombies. In Left 4 Dead 2, they crash over you like waves, crawling up walls and leaping across gaps. They are accompanied by specials: highly-evolved undead that force you to work together. A Smoker will drag you off into an alley with its long tongue where you’ll be mobbed by common undead. A Hunter will pin you to the asphalt before tearing out your throat. A Boomer will charge right into your face and explode, drowning you in green gloop.
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Even though zombies are a dime a dozen and Left 4 Dead 2 has been around for a long time, the tension, level design, and countless mods ensure it remains a compelling romp. It remains one of the best co-op games on PC.
TEAM FORTRESS 2In this extra shooty, class-based affair, angry cartoon men capture briefcases, escort bombs, and stand on nodes. Team Fortress 2 is brilliant, and it’s still easily one of the best shooting games on PC. It has also evolved, with mountains of user-created content, maps, modes, and new Team Fortress 2 gadgets helping keep the shooter relevant.
The premise is as simple as ever: you pick a character from a cast of nine and take your place on a team. Modes include Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, and Payload – the latter seeing a team drive a bomb forward on a rail track, while their opponents desperately attempt to hold them back. It is a classic that has become the flagship mode of Overwatch, but it was refined to perfection here in Team Fortress 2 first.
ValorantRiot’s hero shooter will be incredibly familiar to fans of CS:GO and Overwatch, but – as we explain in our Valorant review – that’s not a bad thing at all. Valorant has pushed its way right to the front of the competitive FPS pack, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a bright-eyed cast of heroes to choose from, each with a handful of useful, well-balanced abilities. The weapons and economy system is straight from CS:GO – they even called the ‘AWP’ the ‘Op’, which is pretty much the same word. Clever.
Matches are intense and require skill, precision, and team coordination. Just like CS:GO, if your aim is shoddy or your reactions aren’t on point you’re in for a rough one – but at least you don’t have to play against a grown adult who has been learning Dust II since they were weaned. Valorant couldn’t be any more geared towards esports, so if you’ve got your eye on a new competitive scene, it comes highly recommended – and if you don’t fancy the commitment of a full match, the Spike Rush game mode is faster, more casual, and offers just as much FPS fun.
UNREAL TOURNAMENTEpic made a name for itself with Unreal – impressive in a time when shooters were dominated by id – but it was with 1999’s Unreal Tournament that Epic earned its grand moniker. Tournament had the same core concept as Quake Arena but offered an alternative for those looking for a few more frills.
Among the game’s exciting weapons is the BioRifle, which weaponises toxic sludge. You can even charge it up and release a great bulb of the stuff, using it as a gelatinous landmine. Then there is Redeemer, a rocket launcher that flings a pilotable thermonuclear warhead at your enemies. You should also try the Ripper, which fires saw blades that bounce around corners. Each gun has separate strengths and alternate fire modes that need mastering in order for you to dominate in the arena.
Tournament’s maps – old and new – are filled with memorably mad architecture. There is nothing quite like leaping in low gravity between the three stratospheric towers in DM-Morpheus – particularly if you can gib someone in mid-air, spraying their gore through the sky.
DUSKDusk is much, much more than just another throwback FPS that riffs on every titan of the genre from Half-Life to Quake. While other retro-styled shooters have managed to emulate the feel of those classics, Dusk instead tries to outdo its own inspirations by being as fast, tight, and imaginative as possible.
Like Doom or Half-Life, Dusk has its fair share of unforgettable levels, from the mind-boggling Escher Labs and Homecoming to the nightmarish Unseen, the level design in Dusk is nothing short of genius. The gunplay is satisfying, with a punchy array of weapons you can use to gib the varied assortment of baddies Dusk throws at you.
But it’s the fluid movement that will leave you grinning from ear to ear. Simplified controls and rapid acceleration encourage you to be fast and aggressive in every fight, with accessible strafe-jumping, weapons that let you extend your air time, and the ability to perform ad hoc somersaults for extra flair.
There are a bunch of modern perks, too, such as mouse-look, crouch, jump, and actual physics – you can pick up a bar of soap and hurl it at an enemy if you’re low on ammo. All of this adds up to make Dusk the best ’90s shooter since the ‘90s. This indie game is an absolute blast to play and goes much further than simply recalling the halcyon days of the genre.
And if you want more retro gaming goodness then publisher New Blood Interactive are also responsible for Amid Evil, a gloriously fast-paced homage to retro games like Heretic.
So there you have it, the best FPS games on PC. With so many upcoming PC games taking the form of shooters – we can still dream of a Half-Life 3 release date being announced, right? – now is a glorious time to be an FPS fan. So give that trigger finger a stretch, and keep practising your virtual headshots. After all, those Nazis, zombies, and virtual terrorists won’t shoot themselves.
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