First-person shooters - the most popular genre in the gaming industry

Today the game industry is rapidly gaining momentum. Budgets of many games many times exceed the budgets of Hollywood blockbusters, and the owners of publishing companies measure their incomes in billions.

To date, the most popular games are still first-person shooters (FPS), which are sold in millions of copies around the world. This fascination with FPS began with the era of Doom, Serios Sam and Half-Life, releases of which took place in the very origins of the release of 3D. Shooters from the first person, as a rule, always put before the player the only goal - beat and shoot everything that moves. This also highlights this attraction to them - the simplicity of the gameplay.

First-person shooter games now conquer the video game market, replacing less popular genres, such as strategy, survival-horror, stealth and others, which is very unfortunate for gamers of the old school. Well, let's list the current FPS, which have a crazy popularity. The list below.

1) The Call of Duty series. This series is considered the most popular in the world FPS. Starting with the first - Modern Warfare - each of the parts of the series sold more than ten million copies, annually setting new records. The last part of the game series, released last year (Black Ops II), brought Activision more than $ 1 billion. Most of the gamers sit for hundreds of hours in multiplayer, fighting for the title of the best in online battles.

2) Battlefield series. The eternal rival of the previous version. The main "point of interest" of this brand is in multi-user battles with the use of heavy and aerial equipment, as well as a solid arsenal of weapons on huge maps. After the failure of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, many players turned away from the latter, having gone to hours of battle on the battlefield in Battlefield 3. It is pertinent to say that the latter, in turn, sold 15 million copies. It also boasts, in addition to the above advantages, also a new engine Frostbite 2, which gives a great picture and the possibility of almost complete destructibility of your environment. This engine was used in other games from EA: Medal of Courage, Need for Speed: The most persecuted 2012.

3) Half-Life series. Of course, this is one of those game series, which completely changed the game industry. With its release, there was a kind of revolution, after which first-person shooters got such popularity. Valve Corporation has collected all the best from the previous games of the FPS genre and created its cult creation. Add-on game Half-Life, Counter-Strike still holds thousands of players on servers.

It would be difficult to note all the first-person shooters, because many developers are chasing the maximum profit, creating projects of this genre. However, there are real breakthroughs. For example, last year's product from Ubisoft - Far Cry 3 - collected a lot of positive feedback, and some gaming media awarded him the title of "Best Game of 2012". And in February of this year came out a game from Crytek - Crysis 3, which put the next frame in the graphic design. In addition to the above, we should mention the series Medal of Courage, Metro, Bioshock, Halo and Borderlands.

The best shooter from the first person can not be called. Every project deserves attention. For example, the games of the Batllefield series have repeatedly received awards for the best multiplayer, Modern Warfare received many positive reviews of the story, and recently released BioShock Infinite is one of the contenders for the title of "Game of the Year."