FPS games are among the most immersive and frenetically action-packed adventures in gaming, and thePlayStation 4is hardly short on these gameplay experiences. With the hundreds upon hundreds of games that have filled the PS4 catalog, plenty of first-person shooters come out on top.
From exhilarating multiplayer battles to solo playthroughs with unique gameplay mechanics, the following games have a bit of something for everyone and certainly represent the best of what this console has to offer. Have a blast with these FPS gems, pun intended!
Though teetering more on survival horror and feeling like a first-person Last of Us game, the Metro series is a solid collection to add to your PS4 library. You can get Metro 2033 and Last Light bundled in the Redux edition and then the third game, Exodus, separately (featuring the best graphics of the three and a more expansive story).
These games arebased on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s books of the same nameand follow protagonist Artyom, who navigates the radioactive Moscow wasteland, battling all kinds of freakish mutated creatures and human enemy factions. The weapons and objective-tracking systems are unique, and the environments are captivating.
9Killzone Shadow Fall
While it’s rarer to see an FPS PS4 exclusive, Guerilla Games had one more entry in theKillzoneseries before launching the Horizon games with Sony. This was one of the first games to serve as a launch title for the PlayStation 4 in 2013, and the graphics remain pretty astonishing.
A direct sequel to Killzone 3, the story continues the conflict between the Helghan forces and the ISA, yet the mechanics change significantly. The campaign in Shadow Fall allowsfor a more stealth-based approach, giving you a stun drone and the ability to highlight targets in an orange X-ray-like design.
The Resident Evil series reinvented itself with the seventh entry, crafting the story of Ethan Winters as an FPS game, and it continued to be the case in the sequelResident Evil Village. What makes Village an even stronger contender here is that it fully moves away from zombie survival horror and instead brings you an action-packed adventure involving lycans.
The environments still feel deeply atmospheric and sinister, set within a snowy European village where Ethan must navigate the houses of its various Lords, who are all servants to a figure named Mother Miranda. Chris Redfield is there for the journey, and so is a new merchant called the Duke.
You can’t go wrong with aFar Crygame, especially the fifth mainline entry in the series, which was a mighty step up in graphics, gameplay, ambitious open-world design, and nihilistic narrative design. Instead of going to an exotic location, you’re in Hope County, Montana, taking on an influential doomsday cult led by Joseph Seed as a sheriff’s deputy.
As standard in Far Cry games, your goals are to survive and gradually remove the hold Seed and his forces have on the town, allying with the local resistance and getting help from tons of NPCs. Exploration has never felt better in a Far Cry world, especially with this game’s addition of airplanesand a doggy companion.
Rainbow Six Siegeis a tactical FPS multiplayer match-based game from Ubisoft’s world of Tom Clancy. In a highly competitive 5v5 setting, you and your squad mates will assume the role of various operators who come equipped with special tools and gadgets, like sledgehammers and thermite charges, to infiltrate and defeat enemy players.
Shooting through walls, setting up barricades, and sending a drone to roll around and scan for hostages and enemies inside the location before breaching are some of the most fun aesthetics in the gameplay. It’s a suspenseful experience trying to stay alive in such close quarters, only being able to spectate once you’ve been eliminated.
5Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Wolfenstein 2is the epitome of the FPS genre, a brutal, no-holds-barred, gritty approach to defeating the literal Nazi war machinein an alternate history of the world. you may dual-wield various combos of heavy weapons to mow through hordes of Nazis or use a stealth approach with hatchets and silenced pistols on Kommandant enemies that can call reinforcements.
You’re back in the shoes of B.J. Blazkowicz, or “Terror-Billy,” following the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order. And the story comes with exciting twists, new directions, plenty of new mech bosses, and an antagonist you’re able to’t wait to defeat.
2016’sBattlefield 1might’ve been an old-gen launch, but it’s still the best-looking Battlefield game in the series and one of the most graphically gorgeous FPS games that exist. This one is a departure from modern settings and puts you in the shoes of various service membersfighting in the battles of WWI.
You’ll be hooked right from the very opening of the game, which sees you jump between multiple soldiers when they’re killed in action, demonstrating the harrowing consequencesof how sudden lives can be cut short by war. The campaign maps, multiplayer maps, vehicles, classes, and weapons only add to the immersion.
Black Ops 3 is the best of Call of Dutyacross all fronts – campaign, multiplayer, and especially zombies. The zombie maps went all out, giving you magic bows in the snowy outskirts of Der Eisendrache, having you battle giant spiders in Shi No Numa, indulging you with a Lovecraftian atmosphere in Shadows of Evil, and allowing you to ride dragons around Gorod Krovi, not to mention the fun in completing each map’s Easter eggs.
The multiplayer maps and specialists also deserve plenty of buzz, with locations like Nuk3town, Micro, Splash, and Skyjacked. All this, coupled with a campaign that sees AI cybernetic enhancements and a war with robots, makes for quite a thrilling FPS gameplay experience.
TheBioShocktrilogy has some of the most influential worldbuilding, storytelling, and character design in gaming, in addition to highly original FPS gameplay. All three games – BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite – have received a remastered collection available on PS4.
The story always begins at a lighthouse, and from there, you’re transported to either the underwater dystopia of Rapture or the scenic dystopia in the air that is Columbia. Particularly unique to these games are your special magical enhancements like shock, pyrokinesis, or crow swarms on top of the more traditional FPS weapons.
TheDoomgames can be consideredone of the best FPS creations of all time. In 2016, id Software launched the next installment in the series, which served as a soft reboot while still feeling like a sequel to the original games.
Then came the 2020 follow-up Doom Eternal, which took things even further up a notch. Both games present chaotically fast-paced FPS gameplay, immersive environments and graphics, intense bosses, and extremely brutal gore systems that offer ridiculous glory kill animations.
