To the attention of gamers are represented the best shooters on PC of all times .
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Painkiller 1
Painkiller 1 - the game of 2004, which opens the top ten best shooters of all time on the computer. A lot of the components in "Painkiller" are borrowed from first-person shooters from the "old school", namely, from the series of video games Doom, Quake and Serious Sam, which the developers have repeatedly stated in the interview. The actions of the game unfold in Hell and Purgatory. The game includes 24 levels, not related to each other in style of design( medieval castles, modern factories, psychiatric hospitals, etc.), five of which are levels with the same mission - "kill the boss."
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Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem - a popular shooter on the PC in 1996.Duke Nukem 3D is the logical continuation of the games of the Duke Nukem series, but if the first two games from the series were two-dimensional platformers, then the third part was performed in the then popular Doom style( pseudo-three-dimensional corridors, first-person view, battles with various kinds of cold,, as well as fictional weapons).In fact, Duke Nukem 3D was Apogee's response to a series of Doom games, as well as Heretic and Hexen from id Software.
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Metro 2033
"Metro 2033" is one of the best shooters of all time on PC.The plot of the game is based on the same novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky "Metro 2033".Metro 2033 sold more than 1.5 million copies. Such a result is considered a failure. This is due to the fact that the American publisher THQ approached the advertisement of the project in an insufficiently responsible manner. According to senior vice president of global marketing Rich Williams, "Metro 2033" was well received by the players, and critics appreciated.
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Crysis
Crysis - one of the best shooters of all time on the PC, released in 2007.Crysis events develop in the fictional future, in 2020, when an ancient alien spaceship was discovered on an island near the coast of China. A solo campaign offers the player to play the role of a fighter of the United States Delta Force special squad Jake Dunn with the call sign Nomad( English Nomad).Nomad is armed with various futuristic weapons and equipment, especially a nanosuit( English Nano Muscle Suit).In Crysis, the player fights against the North Korean army and alien enemies in four different locations: in the jungle of the tropical island, inside the "Ice Sphere"( consisting of those same jungles only frozen), directly inside the spaceship( on which there is zero gravity) and on the Americanaircraft carrier [16].The Crysis game engine, CryEngine 2, uses the new DirectX 10 graphics rendering API and includes the Sandbox 2 game level editor, which used Crytek to create the game.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a 2009 computer game, a cooperative first-person shooter with survival horror elements, developed and published by Valve Corporation. Immediately after the release of the game was a great success and received many positive reviews. As in the first part of the shooter, the developers managed to well convey the atmosphere of horror and despair that arose as a result of the spread in the game universe of an unknown virus that turned people into monsters. Thanks to the work of the "Director"( artificial intelligence, watching the game and affecting the gameplay), each passing game is unique and unique, and the emphasis on team action makes it one of the best among cooperative shooters. Also the uniqueness of this series of shooters is given by an unusual network mode in which teams of opponents are placed in different conditions: some play for people, and others for Special Infected.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
S . T . A . L . K . E . R . - a series of games created in the genre of a first-person shooter with elements of role-playing and action-adventure. The events unfold in the present time, in the alternative world on the territory of Ukraine, in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. According to the plot of the series, in 2006 the exclusion zone was subjected to an unexpected anomalous impact( Emission), as a result of which the physical, chemical and biological processes in this territory changed. There were many anomalies, artifacts, mutants. The ideas of the game clearly show the influence of the book of the Strugatsky brothers "Picnic on the Roadside" and the film "Stalker" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 is one of the most popular shooters on PC.The game is the sixth in the Call of Duty series. The project was officially announced on February 11, 2009.On the first day of sales, over 4,700,000 copies of the game were sold. Thus, it set a new world daily sales record and left behind the previous leader - Grand Theft Auto IV.Almost a year later, on November 9, 2010, a new world record of daily sales was established by the successor of the Call of Duty: Black Ops series with a result of 5,600,000 sold copies of the game on the first day of sales. The plot of the game is a direct continuation of the events of the game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and begins five years later. A single campaign offers the player to play for several special forces and regular units. The game takes place in Russia, at a military base in the mountains of Kazakhstan, in the slums of Brazil, in Afghanistan, in the US and even in Earth's orbit.
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Doom 3
D oom 3 opens the top three best shooters of all time on the PC.A science-fiction first-person shooter in the genre of survival horror, developed by id Software and published by Activision in 2004.In Russia it is localized and published by 1C.The game takes place in 2145 at the Research Center of the United Aerospace Corporation( UAC) on Mars."Doom 3" is a remake of the original game "Doom", but with new graphics and a game engine. The success of the game contributed to the fact that in 2005 the game was released add-on - "Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil", developed jointly by id Software and Nerve Software, and on October 21, 2005 based on the game came out the feature film "Doom", the distributor of which wasUniversal Pictures.
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Half-Life
Half-Life is among the top three best shooter on PC of all time. The game was released on November 16, 2004( November 21, 2004 in Russia and the CIS countries by SoftClub) and received the highest ratings of many authoritative publications. In addition, the game has collected many awards and more than 45 titles "Game of the Year 2004".In 2012, Half-life 2 was awarded to Spike VGA 10( Spike Video Game Awards) as the best game of the decade. Development lasted six years, during which the source code of the game was even stolen and posted on the Internet. The main technological achievements of developers can be considered the Source engine, which provided players with amazing animation of characters, advanced artificial intelligence of opponents, realistic physics and shader rendering. Unprecedented levels of player interaction with the outside world were achieved through the use of a modified version of the physics engine Havok Physics. To date, sold more than 12 million copies of the game.
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Battlefield
Battlefield tops the rating of the best shooters on PC of all time. The first part - "Battlefield 1942" - was released in 2002 and even then it gained wide popularity. At the moment, the series contains 13 published games and one in development, the actions of which unfold in the events of wars of the XX century, the wars of modern times, and the distant future - the war of 2142, where the player will be in the role of a fighter both on land and on water, andin the sky. The series is especially popular with its multiplayer mode, in which up to 64 players can participate, with a choice of a belligerent side, a class of a fighter with a unique weapon, and the ability to control technology. Over 10 years of existence, more than 50 million people have played in the games of the series.
