The best shooter games like GoldenEye 007 are Perfect Dark, TimeSplitters 2 and Halo: Combat Evolved. Below are 12, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
What you get: Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
What made GoldenEye 007 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the shooter part of that answer, and only the shooter part.
The same team's follow-up — more of everything, and bots before that was normal.
By the same people after they left Rare, and the best of the lineage.
The console shooter that took the crown next, and worth revisiting.
Spy-fi shooting with clever missions and a sense of humour.
Objective-and-approach design at its modern best.
Objective-based missions with genuine freedom in how you finish them.
If the stealth half of GoldenEye is what you liked.
Arkane's stylish spy shooter, built on repeating one day.
The Wii reimagining, better than its reputation.
Open missions, many approaches, good sandbox AI.
For the plan-and-approach part, with a very different pace.
Same console, same short-run replay-for-medals structure.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The full list is on games like GoldenEye 007 — 12 picks, no genre filter.
Perfect Dark. The same team's follow-up — more of everything, and bots before that was normal.
No. GoldenEye 007 released on the Nintendo 64, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full GoldenEye 007 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is shooter — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the shooter guide for where to start in the genre generally.