The best shooter games like Perfect Dark are GoldenEye 007, TimeSplitters 2 and Deus Ex. Below are 9, 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 Perfect Dark 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 game Perfect Dark is built on, and the multiplayer is still the reason.
By the same people after they left Rare, and the best of the lineage.
Objective-based missions with real freedom in how you finish them.
Modern objective-and-approach design at its very best.
Arkane's take on the stylish spy shooter.
Spy-fi shooting with a sense of humour and clever missions.
If the stealth half of Perfect Dark was the part you liked.
The console shooter that took the crown next, and worth revisiting.
Open missions, many approaches, very good sandbox AI.
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 Perfect Dark — 9 picks, no genre filter.
GoldenEye 007. The game Perfect Dark is built on, and the multiplayer is still the reason.
No. Perfect Dark 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 Perfect Dark 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.