20 Best PS3 FPS Games

Bulletstorm was developed by the Polish studio People Can Fly, with Adrian Chmielarz and Cliff Bleszinski as its director and designer. It came out in February 2011. You play Grayson Hunt, a space pirate and former black ops soldier who gets shot down on a war-torn planet. He is chasing General Sarrano, his former commander, who tricked him and his men into committing war crimes. The whole game is built on "kill with skill". The more insane the skillshot, the more points you collect to upgrade your character and unlock weapons.

It was first planned as a cover-based third-person shooter, and Firefly was one of the things that inspired the team. Critics praised its pacing and its action, and criticized the story and the short length. It also landed in a fight with Fox News over its sexual jokes. Players who found it remember having a blast with it, short campaign and all.

Borderlands is the first game in the series, a first-person shooter set on the distant planet of Pandora. Gearbox Software called it a "role-playing shooter". You choose one of four characters and hunt for the Vault while local bandits and the savage wildlife of Pandora try to stop you. The loot is the hook. Weapons are randomly generated, and Gearbox said the system could make around 16-17 million variations of weapons.

Up to four players can team up, with enemy difficulty scaling based on the number of players. The cartoon-style look was chosen to give greater detail on weapons and environments, and the game drew on action RPGs like Diablo. It sold over two million units by the end of 2009. The sequel is higher on this list, but this is where you first meet Claptrap.

BioShock 2 came out on February 9, 2010. After the success of the first game, 2K Games formed a new studio, 2K Marin, to make it. It goes back to the underwater city of Rapture and explores a new perspective of the city. You are Delta, who awakens in 1968, resurrected by a Little Sister under Eleanor's direction. Garry Schyman came back for the music and added more blues and religious music this time.

At release, critics praised its narrative and its art style, but said it had a slow start and did not distinguish itself from its predecessor. Retrospective reviews have been more positive, with some considering it the best in the series. There is also Minerva's Den, a single-player expansion released in August 2010. Players tend to recommend the BioShock games as a set, and this one belongs in it.

Resistance 2 is the sequel to the best-selling PlayStation 3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man, and the war moves to the shores of the United States. Nathan Hale is now one of the Sentinels, soldiers infected with the Chimeran virus who must keep it under control through regular application of inhibitors. Insomniac changed a lot. You can carry only two weapons at any given time, and the health bar is gone. Health comes back when you keep out of the line of fire.

The online side was big for 2008. Co-op got its own eight-player, class-based campaign, and Skirmish took up to 60 players, the greatest number in an online PS3 game at the time of release. Those servers were shut down on April 8, 2014. One player who bought a PS3 bundle for it still remembers a boss "the size of a building".

The Darkness is based on the comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, and it was released in 2007. It mixes a dark modern crime drama with supernatural horror. You play Jackie, who can call on the forces of the evil underworld while fighting through gritty, urban environments. Several levels are based on New York City locales that you visit more than once. Sometimes Jackie wakes up in the Otherworld, a hellish landscape resembling the trenches of World War I, full of undead German and British soldiers.

The quiet scenes are what make it. In one of them Jenny explains that they are only allowed a few minutes together before they say goodbye for the last time. The New York Times liked its "wealth of extravagant, often irrelevant detail". Players who recommend it often name both Darkness games together.

Black Ops was released worldwide in November 2010, the seventh main Call of Duty and the sequel to World at War. Last time Treyarch had worked on World at War and the James Bond tie-in Quantum of Solace at the same time, but this time they focused only on Black Ops. The campaign is American, though it has two playable countries, and the characters you control now speak. Small touches came in too, like dive-to-prone and a flashlight on certain weapons.

Sean Murray composed the music, and there is licensed music by the Rolling Stones and Eminem. Critics praised the story and the darker tone, while some criticized it for its linear gameplay and technical issues. There is even a copy of Zork (Apple II) inside it. It was nominated for Game of the Year by numerous media outlets, and the British Academy Games Awards were one of them.

Modern Warfare 3 was released on November 8, 2011. It is the third and final installment in the original Modern Warfare trilogy and the eighth Call of Duty overall, and its campaign begins right after the final mission of Modern Warfare 2. Making it was messy. Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella had left to form Respawn Entertainment before development started.

Sledgehammer Games had joined the development force, with Raven Software also developing the multiplayer mode. It runs on an enhanced version of the Modern Warfare 2 engine. In Japan, Square Enix published it with a separate subtitled and dubbed version. For PS3 owners it closed the story that Call of Duty 4 started. With three studios on one game you might expect a mess, and instead it plays like the series at full confidence.

Infinite is the third installment of the BioShock series, released worldwide for the PlayStation 3 in 2013, and it takes place in an entirely different setting. Irrational Games and Ken Levine were at first uninterested in creating a sequel. Development took five years and hundreds of employees, and it was troubled, with Levine's management style resulting in wasted work and missed deadlines. The fights are bigger than before, in open spaces with as many as fifteen enemies at once.

Your partner Elizabeth does more than follow you around. She can open Tears that bring in medical kits or a ledge for higher ground, and she can pick locks using her hairpin. Critics praised its story and its art direction, and it has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. Go in knowing as little about the ending as you can.

Bad Company 2 is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company, released worldwide in March 2010, a first-person shooter based in a contemporary modern warfare setting. The Frostbite 1.5 engine allows for destructible environments. Large sections of most buildings can be destroyed by explosives, and some walls and fences break down under barrages of bullets. The wall you are hiding behind is never really safe. You can also drive tanks and helicopters.

Multiplayer is class-based, with Assault, Engineer, Medic and Recon. It got a mean of 88 on Metacritic for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, and it sold more than twelve million units. A Vietnam expansion was released on December 21, 2010. The single-player campaign brings back the B Company squad, and it is a more mature story this time.

Resistance was a PlayStation 3 launch title in the United States on November 17, 2006. Insomniac first called it I-8, as it was the eighth title to be in production by Insomniac Games. It is set in an alternate 1951. By 1949, all of Europe has fallen to the Chimera, and Sgt. Nathan Hale is the only survivor when his unit is completely wiped out. He turns out to have an innate resistance to full infection.

Critics gave it particular praise in view of its status as a launch title, and as of 2007 it had sold more than 2.1 million copies. It also got Sony and Insomniac into a fight with the Church of England for using interior shots of Manchester Cathedral. Not bad for a game nobody had a PS3 to play on yet. Its online servers shut down on April 8, 2014.

Resistance 3 came out in 2011, and it was the last in the series to be developed by Insomniac Games. Hale is gone. The hero is Corporal Joseph Capelli, the only remaining member of the Sentinels, dishonorably discharged for executing Hale after he had turned into a Chimera. The weapon wheel and health bar from the first Resistance game return, and you can play the campaign in two-player online or split-screen co-op.

It was the first in the series to support 3D and PlayStation Move. One game pack even included seven tracks from the heavy metal band Mastodon. Digital Spy said it "doesn't exactly rewrite the book on first-person shooters", but liked how it was set against a strong narrative. It sold 180,000 copies in September and was the seventh best selling game in the United States.

Black Ops II is the first game in the series to feature futuristic warfare technology. It was also the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice, and the first to let you customize your loadout before beginning a mission. Zombies came back for a third time, with game modes other than the traditional Survival mode, and it runs on the game's multiplayer engine.

The sales were silly. Within 24 hours of its release it grossed over $500 million, and it remained the largest entertainment launch of all time until the release of Grand Theft Auto V. By November 2013, it had sold over 24 million copies. Critics praised its gameplay variety and its villain, while its Strike Force missions received criticism. Retrospective reviewers consider it one of the best games in the series.

After the unexpected success of the first game, Gearbox was able to secure a budget of $30–35 million for the sequel. Anthony Burch wrote the script, which is seven times longer than that of the original game. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in September 2012. You play one of four new vault hunters against Handsome Jack, CEO of the Hyperion Corporation, who wants to "bring peace" to Pandora. Up to four players can team up, and there is split-screen too.

More than 20 million units were shipped, and it became 2K's most successful release. Critics praised the writing and the variety of guns, while criticizing its mission design and content fillers. It has since been cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. Handsome Jack is a big part of why. He is funny and he is awful, and Dameon Clarke voices him.

World at War took the series back to World War II, focusing on the Pacific and Eastern Front theaters. You follow U.S. Marine Private C. Miller fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army, and Soviet Red Army Private Dimitri Petrenko advancing from Stalingrad to Berlin. Kiefer Sutherland plays Roebuck. It has more graphic violence than previous entries in the series, including limb dismemberment and destructible environments.

It also introduced Nazi Zombies, a co-op mode in which up to four players fight increasingly difficult waves of undead while purchasing weapons and unlocking new areas. Two more Call of Duty games brought Zombies back after it. World at War became one of the best-selling titles of 2008, selling three million copies in the United States within the first two months. Retrospective reviews consider it one of the series' best World War II entries.

Battlefield 3 came out in October 2011, a sequel to Battlefield 2, and DICE built it on an upgraded version of the Frostbite engine. You step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines, in missions from Paris to New York. The lead platform was originally the PC until it was switched to consoles midway through development. The PS3 version ships on one Blu-ray Disc, while the Xbox 360 version needed two discs.

Critics praised its multiplayer and graphics but criticized the campaign, and the multiplayer is what people remember. It sold 5 million copies in its first week of release. Some weapons can have bipods attached, which you deploy when in the prone position for a big boost to accuracy. Hidden around the maps are Easter eggs for other EA games, including Mirror's Edge.

Call of Duty 4 was released in November 2007 for the PlayStation 3, after two years of development. Instead of the old three-country campaign style, it has a more film-like plot told through Sgt. Paul Jackson of the Marines 1st Force Recon and Sgt. 'Soap' MacTavish of the British 22nd SAS Regiment. It was followed by two sequels that continue the storyline, Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3.

The multiplayer has a leveling system that unlocks additional weapons and attachments as you advance. Retrospective reviewers call it one of the best, if not the best, games in the series, and one of the greatest video games ever made for its influential campaign and multiplayer. It won numerous Game of the Year titles. A remaster came in 2016, but the PS3 disc is the original.

Far Cry 3 is set on the fictional Rook Islands, a tropical archipelago somewhere in the Pacific, controlled by pirates and mercenaries. You play Jason Brody, and you can approach missions and objectives in a variety of ways. Ubisoft Montreal led the work, and development was partially restarted in 2010 after the departure of several key creative staff. Michael Mando plays Vaas Montenegro, an antagonist the team compared to Darth Vader.

Vaas is the one everybody remembers. Critics praised its characters, and Vaas in particular, along with the world design, though the multiplayer modes received criticism. Despite weak pre-order sales, it sold 10 million copies. Brian Tyler composed the score, and the standalone expansion Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon followed in 2013. It was nominated for Game of the Year and Best Shooter awards by several publications.

Killzone 3 was released worldwide in February 2011. In the climax of Killzone 2, Emperor Scolar Visari is assassinated, triggering a full-scale attack by the Helghan First Army, and this game starts from there. The ISA orders a full withdrawal, leaving thousands of its own soldiers to die on Helghan. It was the first Killzone presented in stereoscopic 3D and the first to include motion controls using the PlayStation Move.

The settings spread out, with Arctic landscapes and a lethal alien jungle instead of only city streets. There is a jet-pack now, and two players can play the campaign offline in split-screen. In multiplayer you can choose any class from the start, and the best players are shown in cutscenes during the match. Players almost always recommend Killzone 2 and 3 as a pair, and they tell one story back to back.

Killzone 2 was widely anticipated prior to its release, and it came out worldwide in February 2009. The developers called the style Hollywood Realism, with scripted, cinematic gameplay, and it is played almost entirely from a first person perspective, aside from vehicular combat. Even the "lean and peek" move stays in first-person view at all times. The Sixaxis motion controls are used for things like turning a valve and sniping.

Warzone, the online mode, has seven kinds of classes and support for up to 32 players, with bots to fill the remaining spots. Critics praised it as a superior title to the original Killzone, and singled out the visuals and the atmosphere, though the narrative got criticism. The ending goes very dark. Players keep pointing out that the Killzone and Resistance games never got ported past the PS3.

BioShock was released for Windows and Xbox 360 in August 2007, and the PlayStation 3 port followed in October 2008. Ken Levine, Irrational's creative lead, built it on ideas from thinkers like Ayn Rand and George Orwell, and set it in a steampunk underwater dystopia called Rapture. You are Jack, the only survivor, and a bathysphere in a lighthouse takes you down. The developers describe it as a spiritual successor to System Shock 2.

The game urges you to turn everything into a weapon. Plasmids change your own body, and you can use them to lure enemies into traps or turn enemies against each other. They are bought with ADAM, which you get by choosing to harvest or save Little Sisters. It received universal acclaim for its narrative and its visual design. Players recommend it more than any other PS3 shooter.