Upcoming Shooters in 2015/2016 There are a load of shooters set for launch
in the coming months and we are about to count down the best of the bunch right here.
Shooter titles continue to push the boundaries of action gaming, bringing more and more scope
to the genre, while offering increasingly bold set pieces and realized environments.
In terms of online gaming, shooters are typically where it�s at, so we expect developers to
up the ante once again this year.
2015 will not be short on quality shooters, so let�s take a look at some of the best
upcoming shooters.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Black Ops 3 is the twelfth installment in
the Call of Duty franchise and the third in the Black Ops series, it will arrive cross
platform on November 6th.
Set 40 years after the events of Black Ops 2, this Treyarch developed shooter is set
in a dystopian 2065 where countries wage war against each other with covert attacks.
Robots are advanced enough to play an active part in the battlefield and implants have
made humans as much machines as flesh and blood.
You will guide your Black Ops soldier through this dangerous new world in an attempt to
thwart a machine takeover.
The game has been overhauled since 2012�s Black Ops 2 and now features a customizable
female or male lead character that can perform a move set beyond that of a normal soldier.
Players can guide their super soldier through new levels that are now more open than they
have ever been in a Call of Duty title.
This non-linear approach means replay-ability is at an all-time high for this franchise,
as gamers can find multiple ways to progress through a map.
Multiplayer has also been revamped with an all new movement system, while the new �Specialist�
class comes with a choice of nine soldiers with different aggression or defense levels.
The Division The first game to bear the name of Tom Clancy
on our list is The Division, which is actually a new intellectual property developed by Ubisoft
and set for release in March, 2016.
The late celebrated author has of course lent his name to many a quality game franchise,
and The Division seems to have the tools to join the list of classic titles.
Players will assume control over the "Strategic Homeland Division", which is also known as
simply "The Division".
You will lead your team through a crisis hit New York in an attempt to shut down a virus
that is wreaking havoc throughout the city.
Of course, enemy foes will be trying to stop you at every turn.
With a third person view, The Division will be as much mini-RPG as it will be all out
actioner, as gamers will be able to level up their team in a number of ways.
Characters can be customized and will carry a backpack that can be opened to level up
weapons, add skill points, and activate new gear.
The landscape will be semi-open and will feature time based night and day cycles, which will
actually play a role in how you complete tasks and missions.
For example, during the day you may be forced into more destructive ranged fire fights,
while at night your stealth skills and melee attacks can be employed more.
Tom Clancy�s Ghost Recon: Wildlands While Ghost Recon has never enjoyed the same
widespread success of Call of Duty, the series has found a solid fan base and Wildlands is
the tenth installment in the franchise.
This new game will be the first in the series to feature an open world, which is a framing
environment we are seeing more and more shooters turn to.
It also removes the futuristic setting that has been with the franchise for the last three
games and moves back to a more traditional environment reminiscent of earlier titles
in the series.
Ghost Recon has always been among the most tactical shooters around, and Wildlands does
not break with that winning formula.
Set in Bolivia, you are tasked with taking out the Santa Blanca drug cartel that is up
to no good in the region, destabilizing the local economy, and causing a threat to the
United States.
As we mentioned, this is the first open world game in the series and Wildlands offers an
ambitious environment that includes nine different landscapes.
Jungle, desert, and mountains among them.
With timed day/night cycles, the game feels hugely dynamic for a shooter and coupled with
the open world, players can approach combat in different ways.
Night time lends itself perfectly to stealthy attacks or even passing by an enemy unseen,
while the day lets you open up and start spraying bullets, if you want.
With a strong melee system the stealth aspects are really robust, and for added depth there
are also vehicles to use, including parachuting out of helicopters to reach mission points.
Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Battlefront is a reboot of the old
Star Wars: Battlefront series and will arrive on November 17th.
It looks as though the force is definitely back as Battlefront promises to be a unique
space shooter that offers huge environments and interesting gameplay dynamics.
Chief among those is the ability to switch between first person and third person views,
which can be done at any time seamlessly.
Star Wars: Battleground also offers character customization and lets the user upgrade weapons,
gear, and abilities throughout the game.
This is Star Wars, so EA Dice has paid plenty of fan service.
Players can travel to canon established planets like Hoth and Tatooine, while they can also
unlock and play as famed characters like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and more.
For the bulk of the single player game you can play as either a Rebel Alliance solider
or an Imperial Storm Trooper, and as such your progress through the story will differ
depending on which side of the good vs. evil fence you sit.
Multiplayer will be dealt with thanks to 12 different maps at launch, with 40 players
able to engage together in one match.
Destiny: The Taken King Destiny was one of the most divisive games
of last year, but it was still a big announcement at E3 when Sony announced the new The Taken
King expansion.
The content will be released within the "Legendary Edition" and "Collector's Edition" of Destiny
that will arrive later this year.
This is the third expansion since the original game landed and it will focus on Oryx, who
is the father of Crota, as he controls The Taken to avenge the demise of his son.
While combat will remain the same as previous titles, The Taken King does bring plenty of
new things to the Destiny franchise.
New subclasses have been added, the Hunter class Nightstalker, the Titan class Sunbreaker,
and the Warlock class Stormcaller.
Each of these subclasses will boast inventive new weapons such as the Nightstalker Shadowshot
that tethers enemies together with one bow.
New multiplayer elements have also been included.
Rift is a new capture the flag style game that is in Crucible mode and will be joined
by Mayhem Clash, a new features that decreases the cooldown for supers.
And the biggest feature fans have been waiting for, an all new Raid.
Homefront: The Revolution Set four years after the original "Homefront,"
"Homefront: The Revolution" follows protagonist Ethan Brady as he struggles to reclaim the
city of Philadelphia from an alternate, reunified Korea, which is using the city as its central
base after invading the country years ago.
This first-person shooter promises a large, open world and a variety of tasks to discover
and complete.
Rainbow Six Siege The latest in the long-running "Tom Clancy"
series of games, "Rainbow Six Siege" will introduce several innovations to the franchise.
Officially regarded as a successor to the cancelled "Rainbow Six: Patriots," "Siege"
will place increased emphasis on teamwork, multiplayer scenarios and realistic player
deaths.
New to the series are destructible environments, which will add even more strategy to an already
wildy strategic series.
Halo 5 Guardians Spartan-II supersoldier Master Chief Petty
Officer John-117 returns in Halo 5: Guardians.
Halo 5: Guardians�marks the in-game debut of Blue Team, who will fight alongside the
Master Chief throughout the campaign.
In the beginning of the campaign, set eight months after the end of Halo 4, Blue Team
will still be operating under the UNSC, although they decide to go AWOL soon after for an unspecified
reason.
The second mission, "Blue Team", has them investigating an ONI research vessel called
Argent Moon, which has been occupied by Covenant forces.
Halo 5: Guardians�also features another playable protagonist, Agent Locke, a "legendary
manhunter" on a mission to find the Master Chief after Blue Team disappears and several
colonies are unexpectedly attacked.
Locke is accompanied by�Fireteam Osiris, which includes Spartans�Edward Buck,�Holly
Tanaka�and�Olympia Vale.
Locke's role in the story is to act as a counterpoint for John-117's legendary and larger-than-life
character, as well as a vehicle to contextualize both the Master Chief and the wider story
from an outsider perspective.
Locke was introduced in Ridley Scott's digital series Halo: Nightfall, which has narrative
connections to Halo 5.
Although he will be a prominent character, Locke will not be replacing John-117 as the
protagonist but the Halo 5 campaign will alternate between both sides.
There is a huge emphasis on the multiplayer modes of Halo 5.
The movement has been completely revamped.
There are numerous agility features that will allow you to boost in multiple directions,
ground pound, slide, charge, sprint, and zoom.
There are 8 multiplayer maps with 3 different gametypes: Breakout, Team Slayer, and Strongholds.
The multiplayer is shaping to be highly competitive.
Halo Warzone is an all new mode with support for up to 24 players.
The reason for the larger�Halo�teams this time around is because the levels, and the
scope, have grown�dramatically, and they balance PVE and PVP battles.
Combat starts with two teams of 12 starting off in their own respective bases, which are
littered with about two dozen AI baddies.
Kill those, and you unlock your base's doors to the outside arena, along with the ability
to buy�new weapons and vehicles.
From there, the two teams race to be the first to rack up 1,000 points, and they have a few
avenues to accrue them.
The maps contains three control points in the form of bases; whoever controls each gets
a few points per second.
Bases are multi-tiered structures with lots of sneaking passages, stairwells, and corpse-littered
funneling points, so keeping each of them locked down is super important
Simply killing an opposing player nets a few points, while teams�can rack up serious
points if they take out the AI-controlled "boss" characters hiding in the map's dark
corners.
They've been designed to be real damage sponges, so it takes a big team to take down the bosses.
Halo 5 is scheduled for release Holiday 2015.
Gears 4 Gears 4 is the first original game from Black
Tusk Studios, the studio that has taken over the Gears Franchise.
And it looks like they are making some big changes in the way the story unfolds and the
characters involved.
We didn't see Marcus Fenix or any of our old favorites from the old Gears games.
Instead we see JD and Kait, two new protagonists.
In the recent demo, they are exploring the ruins surrounding a decrepit mansion.
The hunt is interrupted by a "wind flare" a vast cyclonic storm that spews lightning
and gusts powerful enough to topple stone.
After using an integrated saw blade in his firearm, JD cuts through a metal gate and
the two take refuge.
They pursue a beast into its lair and find an embryonic mass that splatters JD with glowing
goo.
The preview setting is a dark castle with gothic influences.
The area is very dark and players must use flashlights to illuminate certain obscured
areas The planetary setting is a forested world overlooked by a pair of brilliant white
moons.
It appears Both protagonists are wearing Coalition of Ordered Governments armor which is interesting
because as of the end of Gears of War 3 the COG no longer exists and neither do the locust
or lambet races.
The protagonists mention that they are changing from hunters to hunted.
This, along with the lonely wilderness locale and ruined setting, implies that the characters
are originally called to hunt down the beast or den of beasts they encounter, a mission
that may be military, civil, or informal.
The game seems to focus more on cinematic elements and relate-able characters compared
to the larger than life tough military guys from the previous Gears games.
The pace of the game has also changed significantly, from a high octane action ride to a more paced
out action game.
Gear 4 is scheduled for release in 2016.
Shadow Warrior 2 In Shadow Warrior 2, Players will once again
be playing as Lo Wang as he roams through a variety of proto-Asian landscapes, but the
first thing they might notice is that the environments are far more open-ended and non-linear,
and will range from the inside of a tea house and pagoda to the exploration of a gorgeously
rendered Japanese-esque gardens and wilderness.
A new feature in Shadow Warrior 2 is the development and integration of procedurally generated
levels (similar to Minecraft) with both the position, proximity, and orientation of such
things as buildings, weather, and enemy positions all being randomized � it gives a dramatic
and spontaneous edge to the gameplay.
Starting out with just a katana held out in front, the advancement through levels, the
subsequent loot discovered, and experience gained will grant access to a veritable arsenal
of different ordinances, ranging from classic melee weapons like over-sized shuriken, double
wakizashi swords, and hand claws.
Additionally, Shadow Warrior 2 brings an unprecedented multiplayer co-op mode.
While still being able to access and play the game through single-player, up to three
additional players can now join in.
In a unique style choice, each player will perceive their character as the protagonist,
Lo Wang, with other characters portrayed as supporting ninja � rack it up to solipsism,
but the idea that everyone gets to play as Wang has a certain appeal.
The incorporation of four players brings a new possibility to Shadow Warrior 2 that was
missing from its predecessor as well, and this is the employment of teamwork and strategy
to overcome enemies.
Fans will have to wait until early 2016 to get their hands on the game, but it will be
worth it.
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