10 shooters with an excellent plot

1. Half-Life 2

Despite the fact that Half-Life was a revolutionary game, the history it was small (a couple of talkative scientists do not count). In Half-Life 2 and its sequels story it became one of the main components. There is clear the main goal: to rid the city from alien invaders. Thought the motivation and the characters, and the game world is filled with science fiction, sometimes intertwined with the harsh realism.

Moreover, the story in Half-Life 2 is closely linked with the gameplay. Vehicles and Soup Gordon during the game are improving, there is always logical furnished. Even simple training use gravipushkoy hero reveals details of life Alix - Freeman's companion, who helps him in battle and solving puzzles.

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2. Far Cry 3

Bold experiment Ubisoft. In Far Cry 3, a lot of good: nice and bright graphics, rich open world, cool shooting. But remember shooter for the most part due to the plot.

Pampered young boy with his friends accidentally falls on the full of dangers

tropical island. There he meets Waas - crazy head gangsters who control the area. Now the main character to learn to shoot, hunt and survive to become a true warrior, to win the antagonist and save his friends.

In the plot, the player acquainted with many memorable characters, but the game has become a real symbol of the psychopath Waas. So well he established writers and played by Michael Mando.

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3. series BioShock

The action of the first two parts of BioShock takes place in the underwater city of Rapture, and the third - in the floating city of Columbia. However, in each game of the series always one thing: their stories tell of people (and almost people) rebelled against the authorities. Company or on the brink of destruction, or have been destroyed, and the characters are fighting with those who brought people to this state.

The history of every game exciting, with often unexpected twists. Particularly strong emphasis on the story in the third part: the culmination of that affects and partly explains the other two.

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4. Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 - is a journey. Oklemavshis after a train derailment, the characters are sent to avenge the man who tried to kill them - Handsome Jack. That, of course, will try to deal with them a few hundred times.

On the way the player will meet dozens of unique and literally crazy characters. The main thing you need to know before going through: side quests are sometimes even more interesting major. And also do not forget about supplements. They have a lot of content and stories are not inferior to the humor and ingenuity.

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5. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Seen better times cowboy leans into a bar, orders a drink and begins to tell the amazing story of his life. It turns out, he fought almost all known criminals of the Wild West: Billy Kid, Jesse James and others.

The player also has to "live" is what tells the cowboy. The character resembles the details - they appear in real time in front of the player. If memories hero dies, the narrator stutters: "No, wait, it was not so." And all this is served with a light humor and mysticism.

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6. series Metro

Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light inspired books Dmitry Glukhov. The developers have worked closely with the writer during the creation of games, so their stories are fascinating, accurate and thought out.

The player travels the Moscow subway, where people live after a nuclear war, and regularly goes to the infected radiation surface. Along the way he meets different characters - good and bad, traitors and faithful friends. And in the end he has to make some difficult decisions on which the fate of the world depends.

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7. Spec Ops: The Line

Spec Ops: The Line begins as a conventional military shooter. Three brave soldiers come to the ruined Dubai, to find the source of the strange messages. They are attacked by the rebels, then the US military. All is not what it seems, and then again. Ending all reverses the whole story upside down. Or not - it depends on your actions.

Despite the fact that the shooter left a long time ago, and it still shows great horrors and consequences of war.

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8. A series of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Trilogy Modern Warfare - is an epic adventure that will hold a player of covert operations in the Middle East to a full war between Russia and the United States. These shooters are not many actors, but the characters are stored. Mainly because every part of the need for a new character to play side by side with the old.

Not all three of the Modern Warfare turned equally good. Nevertheless, they gave us a lot of amazing things: that alone is worth the mission in Pripyat, exhausting defense of a small restaurant in the US city or surveillance of a nuclear explosion on first-person.

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9. Wolfenstein: The New Order

Action Wolfenstein takes place in an alternate universe in the sixties. Germany won the Second World War and conquer the world. The soldier BJ Blaskowitz comes after many years in a vegetative state and goes to take revenge. He joins the resistance, entirely consisting of colorful characters.

At its core, The New Order - a game about the destruction of the Nazis by any means available. But there is also a gorgeous plot, which includes science fiction, mysticism, and the allusion to the real plans of the Third Reich. As well as a great setting, forcing the recall of pictures Guy RitchieThen about films category «B».

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10. Halo series

Many game series Halo known primarily as a multiplayer shooters. But in most of them there is a great single-player campaign. Plots of games the adventures of "Spartans" - an elite squad of soldiers specializing in solving problems in deep space.

Halo stories attracted primarily by its well thought-out. The universe is not inferior and "Star Wars" in detail. Dozens of characters, each with their own destiny and character. Many events, interwoven with each other - the world of franchise can be studied for hours.

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