Military shooters: about the games
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam places players in the Vietnam War, where 50-vs-50 battles pit the North Vietnamese Army against the US Armed Forces. Players choose one of 17 specialised roles within a team made up of several squads, cooperating to reach objectives, building tunnels, flying helicopters and driving patrol boats. The battlefield consists of six large maps inspired by real locations, including mountain gorges and dense jungle. The Warfare and Offensive modes alternate with other new modes that change the gameplay parameters.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of the Halo: Combat Evolved campaign, rebuilt from the ground up. After crash-landing on the mysterious ringworld Halo, Master Chief helps the surviving humans withstand Covenant forces while, together with the AI companion Cortana, he uncovers its dark secrets. The package also includes the three-mission Operation: Meteorite featuring Sgt. Johnson. Players fight and drive vehicles, including the Wraith tank, and can use optional ‘Skulls’ modifiers that change the rules of combat. The game can be played solo or in 4-player online co-op.
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.
Hell Let Loose is a hardcore first-person shooter set in World War Two, where 50 players per side clash on battlefields with infantry, tanks and artillery. Players pick one of 14 roles across the Command, Infantry, Recon and Armour unit types, and the squad-based fighting depends on teamwork under the guidance of Officers and their Commander. Maps are built from aerial and satellite imagery of real locations, the front line shifts dynamically, and a resource-based meta-game lets players call in support, reinforcements and new vehicles.
WARDOGS is a tactical FPS about all-out warfare in which up to one hundred players split into three teams fight over a control zone. It mixes tactical gunplay and vehicles with building and destruction on a destructible battlefield set in derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe. The team holding the most players inside the zone scores points, and the first side to reach one hundred wins. Every teamplay act – reviving squadmates, ferrying friendlies to the objective or holding it – pays out cash for gear and vehicles, and that money carries over between matches.
Arma 3 is a massive military sandbox on PC that sends players to war across open worlds, where realistic ballistics, manoeuvring and teamwork keep you alive. It offers over 80 weapons with customizable short- and long-range attachments and more than 40 modelled vehicles, from tanks to helicopters and jets. Alongside combined arms operations, it brings single-player and co-op campaigns: East Wind on the islands of Altis and Stratis, Apex Protocol in the jungles of Tanoa and First Contact, plus scenarios, challenges and multiplayer modes Combat Patrol, Escape, Warlords and Zeus with a Game Master.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a tactical FPS where close-quarters firefights, limited ammunition and instant death define the action. Players advance through war-torn city streets, complete objectives and rely on cover, artillery strikes and light attack vehicles. There is no crosshair, the HUD is minimal and damage is realistic, so squad coordination is essential. Players choose specialized classes and call in support strikes with a spotter. Modes include PvP battles of up to 14v14 and co-op missions against AI opponents.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is a shooter set in modern warfare. You take on the role of Raven, a contract sniper assassin, and in a single-player campaign you carry out a series of contracts and eliminate selected targets in a lawless region along the Lebanese and Syrian borders, with shots there exceeding 1000m. Each contract can be completed in several ways, and the money you earn goes into improved gadgets and weaponry. The game also includes the Butcher’s Banquet expansion with the new expansive region The Temple, where you must take out Mahmoud Zarza, known as ‘The Butcher’, and his associates.
America, 1961: killing General Deathshead brought only a short-lived victory, and the Nazis still hold the world in their grip. As BJ Blazkowicz, aka Terror-Billy, a Resistance member, the player heads home to recruit the boldest remaining resistance leaders and ignite a second American Revolution. This first-person shooter from MachineGames, built on id Tech 6, sends players to iconic American locations to fight Nazi soldiers using weapons such as the Laserkraftwerk laser gun and the Dieselkraftwerk grenade launcher, which can be upgraded and dual-wielded, along with new abilities.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tactical third-person shooter in which the player leads an elite team of Ghosts. In the near future Bolivia has fallen into the hands of a merciless drug cartel, Santa Blanca, and the task is to destroy it and save the country and its people. The player coordinates raids, pilots drones and helicopters, and crosses a vast open world in over sixty vehicles on land, in the air and at sea. A Ghost is created from scratch and gear is assembled from thousands of combinations, and up to three friends can play together or face class-based 4v4 tactical matches in Ghost War.
Call of Duty®: Vanguard is an action game developed by Sledgehammer Games that places players in intense WWII combat on a global scale. The single-player campaign spans several fronts, from dogfights over the Pacific and an airdrop over France to defending Stalingrad with a sniper and pushing through advancing forces in North Africa. Multiplayer features over 20 maps, 16 of them built for core Multiplayer, alongside a new Zombies experience developed by Treyarch. The game supports cross-progression and cross-generation play.
Arma Reforger is a military simulation set during the Cold War, focused on realistic weapons, combat mechanics and expansive terrains. Players can battle other players or AI in the Conflict, Combat Ops and Capture & Hold modes, or build their own missions in Game Master. For solo play there is the Operation Omega campaign with five replayable missions, plus the Elimination and Air Support scenarios, while community mods can be downloaded directly in the game from the Workshop.