Best FPS games of 2022 - the new shooters you should set your sights on

There’s gonna be plenty of life in the ol’ faithful FPS games in 2022.

Shooters. Once the kings of gaming, at the forefront of every graphical innovation and the first word on the pre-production document of every studio with a few million to spend. Since the arms race waged by Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Call of Duty ushered in a golden age of especially violent storytelling in 3D environments, the industry diversified its portfolio and found massive audiences elsewhere. For a while, the chambers were empty and the red barrels went un-exploded. 

Then FPS games found a second life, as competitive online arenas, experimental storytelling vessels, survival sims and even conduits for nostalgia. As we look at 2022, we can see that the definition’s broader than ever, and that even though we’ve somehow still got new 3D Realms shooters popping up, there’s plenty of life in the ol’ faithful FPS.