Top FPS Games of 2010 (Pre E3)

It’s entirely possible that there’s some incredible shooter hiding away in development that we don’t yet know about. It’s also unlikely though. Either way, E3 should set us straight and barring an E3, last minute, mega announcement, here’s the best of what 2010 has to offer – shooter wise.

6.  Breach

Atomic Games’ upcoming first-person shooter is a realistic effort, focused on CIA Special Activities Division.  Originally designed as a tactical simulator for the military and having a destruction engine that eclipses even DICE’s best efforts, this could be a real sleeper among the FPS community.

5. Crysis 2

Some have been disappointed by the relative downgrade in graphical fidelity, but be under no illusion, Crytek is not dropping the ball when it comes to Crysis 2. The scale of New York City is the real winner here, opening up an enormous, vertiginous playground within which to wreak all kinds of future-tech havoc. Imagine being as powerful as an agent in Crackdown, but transposing that freedom into a first-rate shooter whose mechanics are as strong as any.

4. Medal Of Honor

The single player looks interesting as ever, but DICE’s multiplayer should eclipse the mess that is currently Battlefield Bad Company 2. After all, they know how to get things right this time around, surely?

3. Call Of Duty Black Ops

Treyarch get a bum rap with the CoD franchise, mainly due to the success of Infinity Ward’s efforts. That’s not to say that their own titles on PC haven’t been good – they have. This will be Treyarch’s first step away from the World World II arena, with a Cold War era Spec Ops background to play with.  This is Treyarch’s chance to finally step out of the Infinity Ward shadow, and I’m backing them to pull it off.

2. Halo Reach

Bungie is promising to go out on a high with Halo Reach’s single-player campaign, keen to re-establish its dominance as the world’s premier FPS studio. There’s no reason to doubt it, either. The environments are enormous, the scope of the combat unparalleled. Some games might be bigger, some games might have more players, but few have more options, more ways to express yourself through violence and heroism. Whether it will eventually make it to PC as originally promised is a grey area at present.

1. Brink

There’s every chance Brink will disappear into obscurity while Halo and COD dominate, a la Enemy Territory Quake Wars, but there’s no denying that Splash Damage’s game is going to be fantastic. Brink’s ambition and its outstanding technical achievements set it apart from other shooters, much as the aforementioned ETQW did at the time, and with the character of Timesplitters, the grunt of Killzone, the style of Mirror’s Edge and the sheer quality apparent in any Splash Damage title, we could be looking at a winner.

And of the rest?

You should also note that there’s many games that could be great that we just don’t have enough concrete information about to make an informed decision.  Battlefield 3 and Rage have slipped to 2011, Natural Selection 2 doesn’t seem to be going anywhere fast, and E3 is probably going to spawn yet another Left 4 Dead title, or something similar. 

We’ll have full coverage of E3 starting Jun 15th.  Stay tuned.

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