10 best online shooters on the PC

Remember how the game industry began. The first were arcade games, then they began to crowd platformers. A little later, shooters appeared, the popularity of which has so far not dropped at all, but quite the opposite - with the advent of many multiplayer projects, the genre has opened its second wind. After all, it is much more interesting to compete not with silly artificial intelligence, but with agile, experienced players from all over the world.

Today, there are shooters in almost all game universes: these are historical battles of world wars and conflicts of modern times, dynamic skirmishes of the future and sci-fi worlds - almost anyone can find a game to your taste. There are so many projects that many of them do not fit into our TOP-10. Mandatory mention deserves the entire series of Call of Duty, a realistic simulator ARMA 3, Destiny 2 with its magnificent planets. In addition to them, there are many shooters with cooperative passing, like the legendary eternal DOOM. The choice is very large. We have collected the top ten most popular online shooters on the PC, in which you will always have something to do. Go!

The best online shooters on the PC

10 Star Wars Battlefront II

There is hardly a person who has not heard of Star Wars. Over 40 years, the Universe has overgrown with a dozen films, short films, cartoons, thematic merchandise and, of course, games for PC and other platforms. In late 2017, the notorious Electronic Arts released the continuation of the acclaimed action movie Star Wars Battlefront. The first thing that catches your eye is the graphics - it's great Animations of characters, surrounding landscapes, explosions in outer space: everything looks amazing. The game is a lot like Battlefield. Here, in particular, there is also a simple storyline and online battles, to which we will pay attention.

In total there are five modes: from the banal deathmatch, to the fights of legendary characters and galactic shootings on starships. The fights are relatively dynamic, spectacular, a large number of vehicles and famous characters are involved, such as Han Solo or Darth Vader.

But Battlefront has a couple of big drawbacks. The first is arcade. If you like serious tests and reliable (as far as possible in the sci-fi universe) weapon behavior - you need another game. The second drawback is the pay-to-win system. Do you want a new character, a cannon, or just to pump skills - pay, or wait for you to drop the desired case.

9 Payday 2

Surely many readers like films about robberies - an unpredictable plot, cunning tricks of thieves and constant tension: all this makes the genre extremely fascinating. But even more exciting to participate in such events. Of course, in the virtual world of Payday 2, and not in reality. Going together with four friends and go ahead - rob a bank or a gallery of pictures. But just to break in with shouts of "money on the table" will not work - quickly slam a bullet from the crowd of policemen and fail the task. It is much more effective and more interesting to study the ways of withdrawal beforehand, or even to acquire a card before the robbery, on which the secret entrances to the building are indicated, choose suitable equipment and agree with the comrades on tactics.The smaller the loss on the mission, the more experience and "evergreen" money you will receive at the end.

Choose a character before the match is impossible, but you can pump the skills you need. The hero can be an excellent negotiator, master of hidden operations or "rembo" - everything can be tailored to suit your temperament and style of play. Of course, no cons anywhere. You can scold Payday 2 for the old graphics, weak physics (although the behavior of the weapon does not cause any complaints) and the complete absence of background or plot.

8 Titanfall 2

For many gamers, the shooter genre is associated with Call of Duty. Multiplayer in this game is dynamic - something constantly explodes around, bullets fly to the player, any delay in death is like. But Titanfall 2 was able to get even faster. Here the infantryman runs along a narrow street, and after a moment he lets out a hook-cat and soars adjacent skyscrapers onto the rooftops. Another second and jet pack transports the player to the camp of the enemy. In this case, along the way you can spend more than one ammunition store.

But there are much more interesting things in Titanfall 2 - combat mechs (robots), divided into 6 classes. Some possess energy weapons, others - pour a hail of lead, the third can overcome the halfcards with one jerk, and the fourth can completely disappear from view for a while, turning into an alternative reality. Robots allow you to drastically change the gameplay - here you are rapidly running a little vulnerable infantryman, and after a minute, desperately break through the crowds of enemies inside the fur. However, you should not consider yourself invincible - your battery can easily be stolen by your agile enemy, and you will remain in a pile of impressive but useless iron. And there are plenty of such situations, which makes Titanfall incredibly fun and interesting.

7 Team fortress 2

The virtual entertainment market is extremely dynamic. Linger on the market for over 10 years can, perhaps, only some MMORPG and ... Team Fortress. The game from Valve was introduced back in 2007, but thanks to the free distribution, it is now in the top 10 games of the Steam service. About 40 thousand players are online at the same time daily. At the same time, the game can not be called any serious. There is no abundance of equipment; Nevertheless, Team Fortress 2 remains popular among the "evening men" - people who just want to relax and have fun after a hard day at work or at school.

First of all, the game delays the style - deliberately clumsy, cartoon characters are extremely funny. There are eight classes: scout, grenade launcher, spy, medic, etc. Everyone, of course, has its own characteristics, easily understood from the names. Game modes are also similar to everything we have already seen: grabbing a suitcase, holding points, Deathmatch, etc. A set of maps and a visual component are constantly updated, which is nice. The game is perfect for weak PCs: you need only a Pentium 4 processor or newer, 1 GB of RAM and 15 GB of disk space. Even a discrete video card is not required!

6 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

What picture do you imagine when you hear the word "shooter"? Surely, dynamic skirmishes, explosions, a lot of equipment and crowds of people. But Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six series has always been a little different, and Siege online shooter is no exception. On the one hand, this is a typical team shooter where you need to free the hostages or neutralize the bomb. On the other hand, the solutions to the problem are somewhat different from the usual ones. What matters is not how fast you run and shoot accurately, but your tactics, the reasonableness of the operation and the coherence of actions in the team. The game features more than 20 classes of operatives, each of which has unique abilities - you need to select a character for your style of play, chosen tactics and a map.

The latter are not so many, but the monotony in Siege does not smell - every match is like a finished script for a Hollywood action movie. The use of shields, explosives, grenades of all stripes, hooks, drones and a whole heap of equipment makes each passage as different as possible.In addition, the game can destroy almost all the walls, knock out windows or blow up the floor, which adds a hundred or two more scenarios.

5 Battlefield 1

Battlefield. Battlefield never changes. A simple but entertaining company is traditionally just a preparation for an incredibly large-scale multiplayer. The game evokes emotions similar to the previous parts of the series - thanks to the large maps, destructible environments and excellent work with sound, you are fully immersed in what is happening. But the setting of the First World War makes its own adjustments. First of all, we are talking about weapons. Forget the usual modern machines and the most accurate rifles - the weapon of the beginning of the last century is significantly different from them. Different and transport. Tanks are slow, but extremely deadly. Airplanes can make incredible pirouettes in the air, but any good sniper can knock them down - fragile. And the airships - these giants instill fear in the infantrymen with their scale. Also, do not forget about the riders - in the first world in the trenches to the gaping soldiers could easily jump horse, whose owner immediately chop the surrounding sword.

Of course, you can talk about the game modes, the reliability of physics and other boring aspects, but all this is familiar to players from the previous parts of the series. Battlefield 1 is familiar to everyone at the same time, and makes you get used to everything again.

4 Overwatch

Blizzard is known to gamers with experience as a developer, whose games are becoming legendary. World of Warcraft, Diablo - these projects attract players for more than a year. Overwatch - a studio trial in the genre of shooters - has every chance to repeat the “take into account” predecessors. The basis is simple - two teams of six people each and standard modes, such as capturing the flag and escorting the cart. But the elaboration of characters and maps is admirable. Let's take it in order.

Characters Each of them not only has different skills, but also feels special. The reaper - quiet, gloomy, appears behind his backs and one “ulty” takes the lives of half of the rival team. Tracer - fervent girl, annoying her elusiveness and laughter. But even nicer is that each of the two dozen characters has its own character, the story - Blizzard regularly releases comics on the game, short films, allowing you to dive deeper into the world of Overwatch.

Cards. The maximum worked out not only visually, but also gameplay, in order to ensure maximum equality of forces. Here is a simple example: on one of the maps there is a comfortable sniper position, but the blinding sun does not fully take advantage of it. Everything is simple and elegant.

3 Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Opens the top 3 leaders, perhaps the oldest representative of the genre of shooters. Yes, CS: GO was released only in 2012, but the newcomer differs little from the original version - CS 1.6, released 18 (!) Years ago. The developers of Valve only brought the graphic component to modern requirements - while the game is still suitable for weak PCs - they added a couple of cards and a bunch of new modes, such as deathmatch, arms race, etc. Otherwise, we have a classic team shooter, which has become legendary.

There are no classes, no pumping and special features - the result of the match depends only on the selected weapon, your skills and team coherence. To win, you need to know the location of the elements on the map and predict the actions of opponents. No wonder CS: GO is one of the main e-sports disciplines: several dozen competitions are held annually with teams of different levels of training.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to play for free. But Steam regularly holds sales, where you can buy the whole Counter Strike anthology for 150-200 rubles - a great offer!

2 Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds

PUBG - as the silver prize winner is shortly called - has become a real phenomenon in the gaming industry over the past year. Everything is written and said about the game, and the numbers of online players almost always keep at 1 million! The project was one of the first in the royal battle genre. This is a kind of cross between "survival" and a shooter. At the beginning of the match you are thrown off the plane without any equipment. Upon landing you or your team (depending on the mode) it is advisable to find a weapon as soon as possible. At least a shovel. Slow down and one of the 99 opponents will quickly kill your character. But it is also impossible to sit out - over time, the territory accessible to the fighting will begin to shrink, and all those left behind the perimeter will die.

PUBG is a terribly non-optimized, buggy game, where, due to the great randomness, a great tactician can lose to a player who has come just to have fun. But the high popularity and competitor in the face of shareware Fortnite, forcing developers to constantly refine the game. It is quite possible that in half a year or a year we will finally get a perfected product with wild popularity.

1 Warface

The leader of the TOP-10 - the only representative of the domestic gaming industry. The result of the cooperation of Mail.ru Group and the famous Crytek - developer Crisis - was presented in 2012. The free game was almost immediately perceived as hostile because of the huge number of flaws and the inadequacy of many players. Soon cheaters began to annoy the bona fide gamers.

But over the years, Warface has changed significantly. Fixed a lot of flaws, pulled up the graphic component, added anti-cheat - it became much more pleasant to play. The developers do not forget about the new content: at the moment there are ten modes in the game and fifty (there were only 10 at the start!) Cards. We also note the regular holding of special online events and offline tournaments, which are much easier to visit than foreign competitions.

The events of the game, if I may say so, unfold in the modern world. Players will have to fight with some "evil" military organization. You can fight not only against other real players, but also against bots. There is also a semblance of a campaign — a special operation — access to which opens to players who have reached level 5.

Popular vote - which online shooter do you think is the best?
We vote!

Warface

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Overwatch

Battlefield 1

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Team fortress 2

Titanfall 2

Payday 2

Star Wars Battlefront II

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