FPS games 2022 — set your sights on these shooting games

THE FPS, gaming’s one-time king and still some of the biggest games of the year – here’s what to look forward to or pick up in 2022.

From tactical shooters to zombie parkour games with barely a gun in sight, there’s plenty to dig into this year. 

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Rainbow Six Extraction (Release date: Jan. 20, 2022)

Combining the tactical-shooter chops of Rainbow Six: Siege and the wild imagination of alien-zombies, Extraction is an odd combo, but well worth playing.

Pick an operator and face an alien infection with serious firepower, as well as your friends, with co-op being the main draw of the game.

Dying Light 2 (Release date: Feb. 4, 2022)

Zombies come in twos, apparently, as our second pick is Dying Light 2 and its city-crossing, zombie-slaying follow-up to the original.

20 years after the first game and with the world in a much worse state thanks to the rampaging zombie virus – they’ll do that – you’re one of the few capable of moving between bastions of humanity.

Featuring the series’ well-known traversal and parkour mechanics, we also expect this one to continue to receive support and updates for many years to come.

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands (Release date: March 25, 2022)

Wonderlands is a little bit different from everything else here, replacing Borderlands’ sci-fi ridiculousness for the mad wiles of the inside of Tiny Tina’s head.

Dragons, swords, it’s still a first-person shooter as far as we’re concerned.

Naturally, as a spin-off of the Borderlands series you can expect a decent amount of comedy, not all of which lands, and plenty of high-jinks – as well as high-quality looting, shooting gameplay.

Neon White (Release date: June 16, 2022)

Half-FPS, half puzzle game, half race, that’s too many halves. Neon White is a mixture of heavenly visuals, odd story, and fast-paced action.

A movement game as much as a shooter, it’s about finding the most efficient routes through levels and improving over time.

As the first release by a team of indie devs calling themselves Angel Matrix, it’s another great Annapurna Interactive published joint, and has taken the PC gaming world by storm since release.

Warhammer: 40,000 – Darktide (Release date: September 13, 2022)

A spiritual successor to the Vermintide series, Darktide takes the Left 4 Dead formula into the dark future of the 41st millenium and gives you a laser gun to deal with it.

Four-player co-op focused and with years of experience from FatShark on how to make this sort of game, there’s a lot expected of Darktide.

Of course, it’s not the first 40k FPS, and there’s even been others in the recent past, but it has the highest potential, and it’s a universe that it’s always worth getting closer to.

Metal: Hellsinger (Release date: September 15, 2022)

Mix your FPS goodness with metal music and you end up with Hellsinger, a game where you slay demons to the beat and get big points for doing so.

Many have tried to combine rhythm games with FPS and it often doesn’t work, but Hellsinger is different, impressing the world with a demo during Summer.

Assuming you’re into heavier music, it also has a fantastic original soundtrack using some of the most famous artists in the industry, giving it that unique feel.

Scorn (Release date: October 21, 2022)

Scorn has been teased and developed for nearly a decade, but the Giger-inspired bio-mechanical shooter hasn’t aged badly.

As likely to scare and gross you out as it is to provide great shooting, this is one to keep an eye on.

Both developer and publisher are new to the scene, but with some serious talent obvious at both – everything about this is intriguing.

COD: Modern Warfare II (Release date: October 28, 2022)

You can tell it’s definitely a real year because there’s a Call of Duty coming out, this year’s a follow-up from Infinity Ward in their series re-imagining the Modern Warfare series that took the franchise to the stratosphere.

In addition, big updates to Warzone and a new mobile game is expected over the course of the coming year.

Call of Duty is still the juggernaut it ever was, and whether you’re looking for a bombastic single-player campaign or multiplayer blasting in the classic formula, it’ll do you good.

Written by Ben Barrett on behalf of GLHF.

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