Best Gunplay in a Shooter?

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#1 hartsickdiscipl
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Which shooter(s) do you think have the best gunplay?

I've been playing them since 1998, and my favorite is still FEAR. I got it back when it came out in 2005, and loved it. I'm replaying it now, and I think it still has the best gunplay. The weapons feel right, the limited slow-motion system is great, the gore and chunks coming out of cement walls... It's still so much fun.

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#2 8-Bitterness
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I think Killing Floor and the Crysis series have fairly good gunplay. Dunno about the best game tho :/.
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#3 Ben-Buja
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Max Payne 3s gunplay is superb, the way people react to being hit by bullets is still unmatched imo

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As far as singleplayer goes, I'm going to stick with Crysis. The gunplay feels so tight and smooth. Your character is so functional, mobile, and powerful that you feel like some sort of superman as you're sprinting towards Koreans and knocking them off a cliff like bowling pins by simply running into them. The Koreans are so fun to fight. It's hilarious seeing them **** their ****s when you uncloak right in front of them and you see them run away and trip over each other. There's a constant switching off between short-range and long-range gun fights, which keeps things fresh.

In the multiplayer department, Red Orchestra 2 brings WW2 back to the forefront. Forget every other WW2 shooter you've ever played, killing Nazis (or Russians) has never felt so satisfying. Forget the crosshair, sprinting head first into battle, or surviving more than a couple of shots. The deadzone in this game feels really, really good. In a way, it really feels like you're swinging these weapons around and trying to hold back the recoil. Sneaking behind enemy lines and flanking groups of people and mowing them down with a single clip from your weapon is awesome. And so is hearing dead soldiers gurgling up their blood while laying on the ground.

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As to the way gunplay feels I really don't think much comes close to the Borderlands games. Epic
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Quake III Arena, Doom 1 - 2, Serious Sam + Second Encounter, Soldier of Fortune 1, Alien Vs Predator 1 + 2, Painkiller and Hard Reset.

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#7 Gen007
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Max Payne 3s gunplay is superb, the way people react to being hit by bullets is still unmatched imo

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Indeed in fact i think MP3 didnt get enough praise for how good it look on a visual and technical lvl. Its just an amazing game all around and the shooting is great for a 3rd person shooter only game. That and gears are the best for 3rd person shooters for me and for FPS it would be Halo / COD / BF3 / CS. They are all good but different. I wouldn't say one is better than the other it just comes down to preference. At least thats for this gen

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Brutal Doom, no question.

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#9 WaterSphere
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Probably Call of Duty series for me. I also am a big fan of Syndicate.
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#10 deactivated-5f0340ca5ecca
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Fear was pretty solid, I also liked Metro 2033 but that mostly because of the design of the guns.
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Spec Ops The Line
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#12 JohnFifteen12
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COD4

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I'd say Max Payne 3 is damn close to perfection, with just a couple of things to make it perfect that other shooters have (grenades, cover vaulting, human shields, etc.) The impact of a bullet hitting flesh, physics engine, and fantastic AI and sound design make it a blast.

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Isn't the recoil too low in Call of Duty games? It seems unrealistic.

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#15 biggest_loser
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Left 4 Dead 2. The weapons feel great and the number of enemies and dismemberment is amazing. Unmatched. As for Max Payne 3. The combat is by far the best part of the game but it lacks the elegance of its predecessors, mostly because Bullet Time runs out far too quickly. Also you can't do the special reloading move from 2.
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#16 James161324
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COD, Battlefield has got better.

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#17 Socijalisticka
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It's FEAR for me as well. The Physics + Lighting + AI + Particle effects = The best firefights you can imagine.

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#18 David719
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FEAR and Brutal Doom

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Far Cry 3 and Planetside 2

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#20 illmatic87
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FEAR. Straight up FEAR. Rage is solid, even though alot of its more creative arsenal is underused. Killing Floor is wonderful. Hard Reset and Bulletstorm have fun weapons to mess around with (but often unfun enemies to fight).
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#21 BPoole96
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Definitely agree with FEAR. Killing Floor is another one I would add as well as Red Orchestra 2
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#22 kieran88
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FEAR and Brutal Doom

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Brutal Doom is excellent. Agreed.
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#23 DraugenCP
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Out of arcade shooters, RAGE is definitely a contender. Each gun feels powerful, and the different ammo types make for a huge combat variety. The nail gun featured in the new Scorchers DLC is one of the most fun AND useful weapons in any FPS this gen.

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#24 with_teeth26
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Definitely agree with FEAR. Killing Floor is another one I would add as well as Red Orchestra 2BPoole96

I agree with these three, Tripwire really knows how to make shooting stuff feel good.

Crysis 1 also has great gunplay, the weapons feel really good, wish that had carried over into the sequel.

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#25 SPYDER0416
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Out of arcade shooters, RAGE is definitely a contender. Each gun feels powerful, and the different ammo types make for a huge combat variety. The nail gun featured in the new Scorchers DLC is one of the most fun AND useful weapons in any FPS this gen.

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Holy crap, I totally forgot about RAGE. For all it's flaws, the gunplay was fantastic, and I'll definitely pick up the Scorchers DLC.