Best Shooter Games Like Resistance Fall of Man

The best shooter games like Resistance Fall of Man are Resistance 3, Ratchet and Clank and Half-Life 2. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.

Why Shooter Is a Good Answer for Resistance Fall of Man

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 Resistance Fall of Man 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.

9 Shooter Games Like Resistance Fall of Man

  1. 1. Resistance 3

    The best of the trilogy, and the weapon wheel came back.

  2. 2. Ratchet and Clank

    Same studio, and the same obsession with inventive weapons.

  3. 3. Half-Life 2

    The other shooter defined by its toys rather than its guns.

  4. 4. Gears of War

    The contemporary it was always compared to, and worth the comparison.

  5. 5. Killzone 2

    PlayStation's other heavy, grim shooter of that era.

  6. 6. Wolfenstein: The New Order

    Alternate-history invasion done extremely well.

  7. 7. TimeSplitters 2

    For the weapon variety and the sheer generosity of content.

  8. 8. Titanfall 2

    The best campaign in a modern shooter, and it invents constantly.

  9. 9. Returnal

    Housemarque's alien weapons are the closest modern thing to Resistance's arsenal.

What This Filter Leaves Out

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 Resistance Fall of Man — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best shooter game like Resistance Fall of Man?

Resistance 3. The best of the trilogy, and the weapon wheel came back.

Are all of these on the PlayStation 3?

No. Resistance Fall of Man released on the PlayStation 3, 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.

What makes a shooter feel good?

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.

Do these need to be played online?

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.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Resistance Fall of Man 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.

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