Looter shooters: about the games
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is an open-world tactical third-person shooter in which players help rebuild Washington, D.C. after a devastating pandemic. Firefights take place from cover, where positioning and gadgets decide the outcome, and players build their own agent by looting and crafting gear and choosing skills and Specializations such as the long-range marksman or the demolition expert. Co-op missions with up to three other agents take place while the city reacts to changing weather and faction fights over map control. After reaching max level, players can take on high-stakes endgame missions, intense PvP battles and dynamic world events.
Set in a vast open world, the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone, where anomalies, mutants and rivals stand in your way at every turn. You explore the area, scavenge for supplies and try to survive in a harsh and perilous land. The game keeps evolving through updates and is now reworked and capped off with UPDATE 2.0.
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure set in a dangerous future, where the surface is ruled by the lethal machines of ARC. Players move between this surface and the underground society of Speranza, repairing and upgrading their gear in a personal workshop. Topside they scavenge the remains of a twice-destroyed world, sell loot for coin or craft new equipment from it, and complete quests for Traders. Play solo or in groups of up to three, with weather, enemies and map conditions changing so that no two runs are the same. Four maps are available at launch.
Diablo® IV is an action RPG in which the player fights for Sanctuary against spreading evil. The campaign can be played solo or with friends, and an open, dark world offers quests, enemies and loot, including rotating areas of peril such as Helltide and World Bosses. Players create and customize a character from five classes, develop it through Skill Trees and, in end-game content, Paragon Boards, and upgrade gear at the Forge. Seasons bring seasonal characters, new mechanics, Battle Pass rewards and limited-time events.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a tactical third-person shooter set in a vast open world. Players must survive and fight a rogue spec ops faction, either alone or in co-op, relying on stealth, strategy and high-tech gear. You pilot drones, attack and infiltrate enemy bases, and move across the island's varied terrain. You build your Ghost from scratch, loot, craft and customize equipment, and keep the same character across the campaign, PvP and endgame content.
Back 4 Blood is a cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead. Players fight the Ridden, once-human hosts of a deadly parasite, either solo or with up to three friends online in a four-player co-op campaign. The roster includes eight customizable Cleaners, plus lethal weapons and items. Competitive multiplayer lets you play as Cleaners or as the Ridden, with friends or against them. A card system creates a different run each time by letting you craft custom decks, while the Game Director adapts to player actions, including mutated bosses up to 20 feet tall.
A third-person action shooter from Rocksteady Studios, the creators of the Batman: Arkham series. Players take on the role of newly recruited members of Amanda Waller’s Task Force X, the Suicide Squad, including Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and King Shark. Their mission is to take down the Justice League in an open-world Metropolis ravaged by Brainiac’s invasion and terrorized by the heroes who once protected it. Each character moves through the city in their own way, and players can experiment with different play styles alone or online with up to three friends.
Borderlands 2 is an action RPG in which you step into the role of one of four new vault hunters on a quest for revenge and redemption. Left for dead in the frozen tundra of Pandora, you face a world of creatures, psychos and the scheming Hyperion CEO Handsome Jack, alongside friends you can arm with countless weapons. Up to four players can join forces in online or LAN co-op, dropping in and out of the campaign at will. The Gunzerker class can wield any two weapons at once, from rocket launchers to sniper rifles.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1–4 player co-op FPS in which you play as dwarven space miners. Teams explore labyrinthine caves generated procedurally, extract valuable minerals and fight off alien hordes. The four classes – Scout, Gunner, Engineer and Driller – have abilities that complement each other. The environments are fully destructible, so you can reshape the terrain as you see fit, for example by digging tunnels, collapsing stalagmites and blocking off choke points.
Tiny Tina guides players through an unpredictable fantasy realm where few rules apply, across an overworld of cities, mushroom forests and fortresses. In frenetic first-person battles they use guns and devastating spells against smack-talking skeletons, land-roaming sharks and colossal bosses, then delve into dangerous dungeons for epic loot. Questing to stop the Dragon Lord, they meet captain Valentine and rule-obsessed robot Frette, and build their own hero with deep customization and a system mixing six unique skill trees. Play solo or with up to three friends in online co-op.
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter in which you wage guerrilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. In the open world of Östertörn, inspired by the Cold War era, danger lurks on every street, in every patch of forest and deep inside every bunker. You can take on the sophisticated and deadly machines alone or together with up to three friends in seamless co-op. Experience from fighting back makes you stronger, parts scavenged from fallen enemies can be crafted into equipment, weapons and ammunition, and you build and fortify your own bases while uncovering the truth behind what really happened to the region of Östertörn.
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is an action game from Marvelous First Studio in which you pilot a fully customizable armored suit known as an Arsenal. You roam a hostile alien planet on foot, through the air or on horseback while battling mechanical and organic enemies. Defeated foes yield weapons and gear that broaden your options in combat, and the suit itself can be reworked in design and loadout, partly by crafting or salvaging new parts. Titanic boss battles and a dark sci-fi story can be taken on alone or online in co-op with up to two other players.