8 Best First Person Shooters Of 2014

From perfect shotgun-kicks to jetpacks and superpowers, what's your favourite?

If you're a fan of the genre, then 2014 has been quite a year for you when it comes to the first-person shooter. There have been some absolutely stellar FPS' released this year, from single-player masterpieces to games that took multiplayer combat in some exciting new directions. Brand new franchises have made their first impression along with some old favourites returning too, bringing some much needed depth to the world of shooters. Everything that the Halo franchise had to offer was in the outstanding Master Chief Collection and Ken Levine also took one final dip into Rapture with the conclusion of the Burial at Sea two-parter. Ultimately, it was a year that was just as much about innovative new titles as it was going back to the past, pulling together a remarkable string of games that everyone will still be playing long into 2015. Seeing innovation in gameplay was perhaps the most exciting part of 2014's collection of first-person shooters, as Far Cry 4 brought refined its new breed of open-world mayhem to the forefront and Call of Duty actually managed to produce something that wasn't just a cut-and-paste job. It's been a fascinating year for the powerful juggernaut of a genre, and it's likely that 2014 isn't the last time we'll see shooters of this caliber coming out either. So snipe that next button and take a look at the 8 best shooters to come out guns blazing in 2014.
 
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