Top 10 Best Xbox 360 First-Person Shooters

The Xbox 360 wasn't just a console. It was a battlefield, a proving ground, and your favorite couch's sworn enemy during those marathon gaming nights. You remember. The blood-pumping shootouts, the perfectly timed headshots, the multiplayer mayhem that turned friends into rivals and trash talk into an art form.

If your trigger finger twitched with muscle memory just reading that, you're in the right place.

This is your chance to give credit where it's due. The aim isn't just to shout out the usual suspects but to weigh in on the ones that defined your experience. Maybe you still think no shooter nailed pacing like that one gritty war zone. Maybe your favorite had plasmids and underwater paranoia. Maybe it was all about futuristic alien warfare with a side of sticky grenades.

Whatever made your crosshair feel like home, scroll through and cast your vote.

The Top Ten

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

As much as I love Halo, COD4 takes the cake. This game is what put Call of Duty on the map as a gaming legend, a title it truly deserved with this game.

Looks awesome. I say that everyone should consider getting this game. I will sometime soon. I hope that everyone else enjoys it too!

The best game ever in terms of graphics and user actions. Waiting for the next set of advanced environments to be released.
Halo 3

One of my top three favorite games ever. It has an incredible story, one of the best gaming soundtracks ever made, and one of the best video game characters ever, on top of a full roster of badass characters. Not to mention the genre defining multiplayer.

With a storyline as touching as The Last of Us, a multiplayer as unique and awesome as Modern Warfare 2, and one of the greatest video game characters of all time, Halo 3 is, and still is, my favorite game ever! Not even the other Halo games in the series can compare to the overall awesomeness of this Xbox classic.
BioShock

BioShock is extremely fine-tuned and elegant in all aspects. This truly remarkable, deep, story-driven game vigorously pulls you into the abyss itself. With intense FPS/RPG action, great voiceovers, and beautiful graphics and setting, this is what a game should be.
In short, it delivers.

This is probably one of my favorite shooting games of all time. Beautiful graphics, gripping story, nice weapon upgrades, and there's no feeling like seeing a Big Daddy.
The Orange Box

Great game, or I should say games. Half-Life 2 is easily one of my favorite games of all time, and the episodes are great also. Portal is fantastic, very fun but short, but there are lots of fun Easter eggs to find and advanced chambers. Team Fortress 2 is a fun, addicting multiplayer. Although there are only six maps, each only compatible with one game type, there are going to be more soon in DLC.
Overall, I think The Orange Box is a 96 out of 100.

While I slightly prefer Halo 3 over Half-Life 2, which are both amazing, I should add, The Orange Box contains three of Valve's (best game company ever) greatest games pre-2008. If you include all the Half-Lifes together, this destroys everything the competition can throw at it.
Fallout 3

This is an awesome game in any collection. The world was so rich in detail and had a thriving story. The world felt alive, with everyone struggling, taking you into the devastated D.C., living among the natives.
I think you should buy this! This smashes Call of Duty any day!

In my opinion, probably the best game ever... Well, along with Red Dead Redemption.

I don't have this game but have played some of it at my cousin's, and it is really fun. I am totally gonna get this and New Vegas.
Battlefield 3

Peak Battlefield. Easily equal to, if not better than, COD: Modern Warfare, with a great campaign and one of the best multiplayer experiences ever. People nowadays talk about hopping on Fortnite with the boys. No, I miss the days when people would hop on Battlefield 3 with the boys and blow stuff up with tanks and planes.

Does Call of Duty have tanks, jeeps, jets, helicopters, or actual maps? I've played a few Call of Duty games, then I found Battlefield 3. I basically forgot about Call of Duty and have been playing BF3 ever since.
I know Call of Duty 3 has vehicles, but it also had bad graphics and didn't have nearly as many vehicles as in BF3. Also, I know the BF3 single-player campaign isn't as good as the Call of Duty one, but the BF3 multiplayer is better than the Call of Duty single-player and multiplayer combined.
When you guys make another list on this topic, vote BF3 because of this comment.
Call of Duty: World at War

One of my favorite games ever. I just play the single-player campaign, but it's endlessly enjoyable. I really prefer this one to the modern-based ones. It would be great if Call of Duty creators went back to their historical roots like this.

Still play the campaign every few months. Awesome visuals and historic weaponry.

Would be #1 if there weren't so many campers! But still an awesome game. Love the StG 44.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

In my opinion, this should be ranked number 2 or 3 because it has awesome graphics and awesome guns. It's also the only game that has Ghost in it.

This game has great graphics, a great storyline, and better guns than the other Call of Duty games.

MW2 was the peak of first-person shooters. It's sad that Call of Duty has fallen so far since then, especially with Advanced Warfare.
Battlefield: Bad Company

I love when an enemy tank is coming, and I'm cornered, but wait, I can blow a hole in the wall.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

This should definitely be in the top ten because this game has amazeballs guns, graphics, and a touching storyline.

It's kept me occupied for over 300 hours. No other game has given me the longevity in comparison to MW3.

I love this game. It's better than Halo Reach!

The Newcomers

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Bulletstorm

An amazing shooter with unique mechanics. It flows nicely, has nice graphics, different modes, and good rumble support.
Surprised that this wasn't on the list before. (Also, I think this is better than Halo - just saying, my opinion!)
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The Contenders

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Best campaign and zombies in the series. Multiplayer is great but not as good as MW2.

The Cold War along with the story made it one of the best CODs, period.

Pretty cool campaign, and I love the shotgun with Dragon's Breath.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II

My number one favorite game! This game is life, especially zombies. Also, to the guy that talked about David Mason dying, I haven't finished the campaign yet. Thanks.

Fun to play with replayability, which makes it one of the best.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

Hands down the best tactical shooter game on the market, along with Vegas 2. From an analytical standpoint, you have to actually know what you're doing. You don't just run around like a chicken with its head cut off, shooting at whatever moves and with enemies popping out of nowhere.
If you have patience and make methodical moves, this is by far the best game ever made in the first-person shooter genre. 10 out of 10!

TCRSV2 is by far a better incarnation of this franchise. It's a shame they didn't make a 3. Gameplay is very good with an emphasis on utilizing your teammates better if you want to complete it successfully. Also, the hunt games can be quite tricky, with those pesky AI enemies being quite sneaky.
Call of Duty: Ghosts

Call of Duty is just so cool, and I think that this Call of Duty is the best ever made!

This is an awesome game, and it has a very good storyline. It's sad when the dad dies.

I love it. Clan Wars is very stressful.
Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is the very first first-person shooter I've ever played, and I love it. It is the best shoot 'em up zombie game you'll ever find! Although, since it was made in 2008, the graphics aren't very good, which is probably the only flaw about it. It is also very dark and scary (especially the hunter).
In my opinion, it is better than Left 4 Dead 2 (2009).

This game is awesome! I have always loved zombie and FPS games, and this game is the best in both categories that I've ever played.

Very great, but never on a hotel in an online V.S. game. Be the first to run by a window, or you will fall and die.
Crysis 2

An awesome shooter, which allows you to play with stealth or go in guns blazing.
Skirmishes are memorable and satisfying to complete on your way to finishing the campaign. Strategy plays a huge role in how you accomplish your goals. The cloaking ability is a stealthy player's dream.

This game is probably one of the best. It gives you a choice in how you want to play it!
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Far Cry 2
Titanfall

This game is great! It gives you a lot of opportunities that other games don't.
Unreal Tournament III

Best first-person action shooter ever in terms of pure gameplay. Multiplayer is fantastic with a wide array of weapons and tweaks. I still play this game to this date and am still ranked in the top 10 on the leaderboards.
Borderlands 2

Great story with amazing characters, lots to do, and so many guns! DLC feels like an add-on rather than a necessity, which is a problem modern shooters seem to have. The classes are so unique, and all the characters that represent them are too. Graphics do still hold up, and the lack of modern gaming tropes doesn't hold it back.
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Good graphics, horror elements, and a good story.
Borderlands

Best co-op game I've ever played, and there's almost more guns to find than there are enemies to kill.

Much better than the 20 games before it.

Borderlands should be at least number three. It's one of the best games ever made.
Call of Duty 3

I'm gonna get this game in the future. I've only played the demo.
Crysis 3