The shooter games worth playing on the PlayStation 3 start with The Last of Us, Uncharted 2, Red Dead Redemption.
A difficult machine with an exceptional first-party run. Sony's studios spent the generation learning to make cinematic games, and by the end of it they were the best in the world at it.
Shooter Games are a solid rather than a defining part of this library — worth knowing, but not the reason anybody owns the machine.
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.
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Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The Last of Us is the usual first answer, and there are 7 in the library we cover.
It is a solid rather than a defining part of the library.
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.
From the games this site covers on the PlayStation 3, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole PlayStation 3 library.