9 Upcoming Video Games You Need To Be Worried About

6. Any FPS Game

Ever since its early MS-DOS days with the likes of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the First Person Shooter genre has been an absolute treasure trove of blood soaked wish fulfilment for huge swathes of the gaming community. Promising fast paced and varied gameplay; technical and narrative leaps from the likes of Half Life, GoldenEye and Halo across the 90s and 00s ensured that this was a genre with a great deal of business potential, with shooters accounting for over 27% of sales as recently as 2016.

Fast forward to the modern day, and the format’s ludicrous profitability in the realm of online play has ensure that one name stands above the rest, stamping the competition into the ground with a sizeable military boot: Call of Duty. Coming up on 18 years since its debut, the franchise has managed to maintain its momentum by focussing on this online mechanic, leaving single player narratives to atrophy in a forgotten corner of the game engine, with 2018’s Black Ops 4 ditching the single player campaign altogether.

Who can really blame them? With so much money to be made by splashing out a fresh coat of paint on to the online war zones, is there really any incentive to innovate the genre in a meaningful way? Worse still, with juggernauts like COD and the similarly successful Battlefield sucking up so much air in the room, is there really space for other games to get a look in on the action?

It’s safe to say that the First Person Shooters are here to stay, and are certainly not showing any signs of stopping despite the recent shift in popularity towards the Battle Royale genre. Still, we can’t help but wonder how many more tricks the long standing gunners have up their sleeves and, if they do manage to pull them out, how many people will honestly care.