Shooter 2008 for PC — top best games in the Shooter genre

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - a game in the Shooter genre

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

Game released: PC → 15 August 2009

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a continuation of the popular series of games with endless possibilities of interaction in a large open world. Five years ago, Carl...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 October 2009

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 95/100

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a legendary spin-off of Grand Theft Auto 3, which developed the ideas and mechanics laid out in it, connected by common characters...

Mass Effect

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: PC → 19 December 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Mass Effect is a sci-fi action RPG with a third-person perspective. The events of the game will take you to XXII, when humanity mastered the technology of...

Grand Theft Auto 3

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC → 26 March 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 95/100

Grand Theft Auto 3 is a continuation of the dynamic action game with a third-person view in the open world. Working for the mafia sooner or later ends in trouble...

Grand Theft Auto 4

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Shooter, Open world, Online

Game released: PC → 2 December 2008

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 95/100

Grand Theft Auto 4 is a continuation of the cult series of games about the great car thief with a third-person view in the open world. In this part you will try on...

Deus Ex

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Stealth

Game released: PC → 28 February 2008

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Deus Ex is a legendary action role-playing game with a third-person view in a cyberpunk style. The game takes place in the fictional dystopian world of Earth in...

Fallout 3

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world

Game released: PC → 19 November 2008

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy universe. The events of the games take place in 2277. 200 years have passed since the...

Call of Duty: World at War

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Historical, Zombies

Game canceled: PC → 20 November 2008; Game released: PC → 12 December 2008

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This first-person shooter is set during World War II on the Pacific and European fronts. Players fight as U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers against Imperial...

Team Fortress 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 9 April 2008

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 92/100

A class-based multiplayer first-person shooter built around team battles and distinct tactical roles. Team Fortress 2 offers several game modes and pairs a...

Far Cry

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world

Game released: PC → 2 April 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Far Cry is an exciting first-person shooter. You are Jack Carver, the owner of a small charter company that rents boats in the tropical state of Micronesia. With...

Point Blank

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view

Game released: PC → 19 March 2008

VGTimes: 5.0/10

Players: 6.5/10

A multiplayer FPS from the South Korean studio Zepetto. The project largely resembles games from the Counter-Strike series and focuses on online battles (there is...

Crysis

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: PC → 17 September 2008

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Set in 2020, this futuristic first-person shooter follows a standoff between the United States and North Korea in the South China Sea. After North Korean forces...

Left 4 Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 17 November 2008

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter about a group of survivors trying to escape a city engulfed by an epidemic. A new strain of the rabies virus...

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 15 March 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men is a third-person action game with shooter elements. This game immerses players in an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching...

Hitman: Blood Money

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 28 August 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A stealth action game about contract killer Agent 47, who travels to America after an unknown organization begins eliminating members of his agency, the ICA. When...

Painkiller: Overdose

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 10 February 2008

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements continues the story of Painkiller, introducing a new character who faces the consequences of Daniel’s victory over...

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 January 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a continuation of the exciting action game with a third-person view, which continues the tragic story of police officer Max...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 26 September 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The plot takes place a year before the events of the original game, in 2011. A group of stalkers for the first time...

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Tactics

Game released: PC → 6 November 2008

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This tactical World War II shooter is set during Operation Market Garden, the war’s largest airborne operation. Players lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock, and the...

Far Cry 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world

Game released: PC → 21 October 2008

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Far Cry 2 is a continuation of the dynamic first-person shooter. The game takes place in a small African province where a fierce civil war is being waged. You play...

You Are Empty

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 15 January 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 34/100

You Are Empty is a dynamic first-person shooter with horror elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. The events of the game take place in the alternative world of...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC → March 2010

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas — Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an intensifying terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take...

Turok

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 15 September 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Turok is a futuristic first-person shooter with stealth elements. You have to try on the role of a courageous mercenary named Turk, who, together with the Whiskey...

Prey 2006

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 21 July 2006

Players: 8/10

Prey is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will tell the story of a young mechanic, Tommy, from the Cherokee...

Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 6 March 2008

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico is an action game with a third-person view. 1989 Ruins of an Inca temple deep in the jungle. Ernesto Cruz has just...

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 26 June 2008

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault is a first-person shooter. The game takes place during World War II on the Pacific Front. The player takes on the role of private...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Simulation, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Action

Game released: PC → 7 April 2009

Players: 4.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a hardcore tactical shooter with a first-person view. The events of the game will take you to Eastern Europe in 2008, where massive...

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → July 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This tactical shooter about World War II follows the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day. The player takes the role of Sergeant Matt Baker, a U.S. paratrooper...

Sniper Elite

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 17 June 2008

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A tactical shooter set amid the covert battles of the closing days of World War II, it follows an American OSS sniper operating undercover in war-torn Berlin. He...

I.G.I-2: Covert Strike

Action, Shooter, Fighting, In real time, First-person view

Game released: PC → 28 October 2008

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 64/100

I.G.I-2: Covert Strike is a first-person tactical action shooter and a sequel to Project IGI. Operative David Jones carries out covert missions against terrorism...

Crysis: Warhead

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: PC → 16 September 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Crysis: Warhead is a continuation of the adventure shooter with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. This time you will watch the story of the original Crysis...

Alone in the Dark (2008)

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Stealth

Game released: PC → 20 June 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Alone in the Dark (2008) is a reboot of the legendary horror series, which will continue the story of paranormal investigator Edward...

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Atmospheric psychological horror from the first person, set on the abandoned Soviet atomic icebreaker "Northern Wind," stuck in the Arctic ice. The main character...

Combat Arms

Online, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Action, MMO

Game released: PC → 26 July 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 55/100

Combat Arms is a free-to-play competitive shooter with a first-person view. The game features more than 300 types of weapons, 34 maps, 12 game modes and 4,500,000...

Unreal Tournament 3

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Online

Game released: PC → 17 March 2008

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A futuristic first-person shooter built around arena battles against other players online or computer-controlled opponents. Combat combines a range of weapons and...

Sniper: Art of Victory

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view

Game released: PC → 16 October 2008

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 32/100

Metacritic: 36/100

Sniper: Art of Victory is a dynamic shooter with a first-person view and stealth elements. World War II was a war theater for many specialized combat units working...

Clive Barker's Jericho

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: PC → 12 December 2008

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This first-person horror shooter follows a special forces squad sent to a lost city that has reappeared in a remote desert. An ancient evil has resurfaced there...

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 4 October 2008

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A stealth action game about a retired contract killer forced back into service by treachery. The protagonist takes on assignments around the world, including in...

Valve Complete Pack

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 12 November 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Valve Complete Pack is a collection of various games from the developers at Valve...

Kingpin: Life of Crime

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 4 December 2008

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Set in a decaying urban world where street gangs defend their turf, this first-person shooter follows a tale of revenge. The protagonist forms a gang and rises...

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Best Games in the Shooter genre of 2008 for PC