This year was to be a great one for fans of competitive shooters, with games like Halo Infinite, Call of Duty: Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 releasing within weeks of one another. Apart from Infinite, Vanguard and Battlefield haven’t had smooth launches, and while you wait for these games to be fixed, try out some of these underrated gems to get your online fix.
Hell Let loose
Hell Let loose is a tactical WWII-themed shooter with a firm emphasis on infantry combat. The game puts players in one of three factions – German, American and Soviet, as they fight across vast maps packed with 100 players. Like Battlefield, each side is broken up into smaller squads, where communication is of the utmost importance. Hell Let Loose also features an RTS-eque meta game, where commanding officers can deploy orders, air strikes etc.
Splitgate
Splitgate is a multiplayer-only experience that’s part Halo and part Portal. Gunplay, movement and the overall aesthetic is very Halo-esque, while the Portal similarity comes from the ability to create portals. This makes for entertaining moments where you can not only use portals to move around maps, but can cheekily kill players through them as well. Splitgate ships with a ton of entertaining game modes as well as a ranked mode for the sweaty try-hards.
Zero Hour
Zero Hour is a tactical shooter in the same vein as Rainbow Six Siege, featuring both co-operative and PVP modes. The game takes place in Bangladesh, and players step into the boots of a spec ops team tasked with different objectives like infiltration, bomb defusal and rescue missions. Keep in mind though; this game has been developed by a small indie team so it lacks the polish you would associate with most triple-A shooters.
Lemnis Gate
Lemnis Gate is a tough game to explain, but it’s essentially is an innovative competitive shooter with turn-based elements in which you manipulate time – a 25-second loop specifically – to outsmart your opponents. The game even ships with a unique auto-coop mode in which you can command an entire team of five by yourself, becoming quite literally a one-man army.
Rogue Company
Rogue Company is a free-to-play third-person hero shooter from the studio that brought us other F2P gems like Paladins, Realm Royale and Smite. You take control of diverse characters called rogues and step into 4v4 or 6v6 skirmishes across a bunch of different maps. Rogue Company doesn’t have a huge roster of game modes, but the gameplay is engaging enough, and the game almost always have some sort of limited game mode to partake in.
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