Why is there a Battlefield Vietnam picture for Vietcong?

BFV was the tits.

Blood on the Sand isn't an FPS it was third person. Even though it's 50 Cent, Blood on the Sand isn't near as bad that people make it out to be. Yeah its got nothing but 50 Cent tracks but it was still a fun arcade style shooter, worked well with coop. The story is so bad its just funny to laugh at because of how over the top it can be with the skull your trying to get back and its characters.

50 Cent: Blood in the Sand and Rainbow Six are not FPS games

where is halo, halo 3 and halo odst?!?!? they suck

You forgot Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, a far worse game than Section 8.

There was also a Secret Civil War FPS from History Channel iirc.

@Misha: personal bias and general consensus are 2 completely different things. Halo is one of the premier FPS franchises, whether YOU like it or not.

What about HAZE, DAMNATION (Absolutely horrible) and the infamous Hour of Victory

What about Fugitive Hunter? That was the FPS where you kickbox Bin Ladin.

K-K-K-Killzone!!!!! Just kidding, the first (sorry fanfems) does stink compared to it's legendary legacy, but not so much to include on a list like this. Haze is one of the worst pieces of garbage I have ever played though. I'm a PS3/PC hombre so I don't know as much about the horrific 360 games (not on the PC too). Is it just me or is it becoming the height of predictability for fanfems of either console to bash obviously good games on the opposite system? It must feel clever when you're 12 I suppose.

Wow, I expected this list to have some flavor of turok

One of the worst fps has to be Timeline, a pc game based on Michael Crichton's novel.

Rainbow six on the pc was a decent tactical shooter it was also an fps, but i found nothing wrong with it apart from it will not run on NT operating systems.

Where is Halo and Halo 3?

No Black? 2001 graphics in a 2007 release?

WHAT?
f*ck off black was f*cking amazing.
best FPS ever released.
much much much better than halo or resistance or killzone or any other FPS for that fact.
the only 2 FPS that can stand up to black are syphon filter or crysis.

10 worst FPS? It's more like 10 games you didn't like so much and decided to make a crappy list out of. If you can say something good about it, it's obviously not the worst.

Section 8 and Darkest of Days definitely do not deserve to be in this list. These games are raking in 6/10 and 8/10 user reviews on metacritic. Doom 3 deserves a place in a top 10 of worst shooters more than those games do. And we all know that, however disappointing D3 was, it ranks well above the "worst 10 in all of FPS gaming".

Hell, why didn't you include Star Wars: Battlefront (PC) in this list? If there was ever a buggy, unplayable, pos. - it's SW:B.

Come on, a multiplayer-only game that makes it a challenge just to join a server? Its sweet combination of ever-refreshing server pages, focus not staying where you clicked and pings being displayed as strings (sorted alphabetically as text, so 1234 is lower than 21) made MP practically unplayable. Not to mention the terrible, well-below-mediocre gameplay, shoddy map design, poor AI, pitiful graphics and ridiculous netcode.

Darkest of Days is GOTY-material in comparison...

It seems no one remembers "devastation" you looked like Eminem, the AI had no regard for walls or obstacles, it was just a horrible game all around.

hey idiot, Section 8 is a multiplayer-focused game. The single player campaign is simply a tutorial. Tom Chick did an entire series of articles on tactics and discussing just how well thought out the gameplay and design decisions were.

Putting Rainbow Six in your list, simply states you hate tactical shooters. Since this game spawned....HOW MANY....other games? Ghost Recon? Splinter Cell? Raven Shield? Vegas 1 & 2? Now, maybe fitted for the playstation it sucked, but the PC version was very good for its day.

I got in to tact shooters with the release of Rogue Spear (the immediate spawn from Rainbow Six). An then went to play RS, to find yes, some things were improvements between the two games. Unlike arcade shooters, tactical shooters make you....*gasp*....think and plan your attacks. In Co-Op mode, the game was fun to coordinate attacks.

"What may have been intended for the PC somehow ended up being tossed to the Playstation"

Funny, I could have sworn all those hours I spent on Rainbow 6 was on my K62 333/STB Blackmagic/128mgs RAM.....not my Playstation, even though there was a port for it(and also the N64). In fact, judging from the reolution, that screenshot looks like its from the PC version but who knows, I could be wrong.

"First of all, this game boasts nothing but boring levels ....."
LOL what? WHen this game came out the levels were awsome. Sure they dont hold a candle to todays but seriously.....what? They were also amazingly fun when you setup an awsome assault plan/go codes.

"and deformed looking terrorists."

again, this was awsome for its time.

Im not even gonna rag you on Serious Sam 2.

Seriously though, did you just start playing games this year or something cuz you have no idea WTF you are rambling about.

where is halo 2 3 and odst

and you had to put serious sam on there?

on of the best fps games evar

casuals

CASUALS

@droniac: whoa whoa whoa... lay off SW: battlefront, sirrah. Thats one gauntlet you can't unthrow.

That was a great article. Fortunately I've not played many of those but there's a good reason I stayed away from them.

Unfortunately I have played Conflict: Denied Ops... I liked the others, good, simple fun. Denied Ops on the other hand... *sigh*

How did the History Channel Civil War game not make the list? I hear it was just as bad as their WWII one only now the guns were shit and it had a 20 second reload animation.

.......I am shocked that Serious Sam 2 is on this list... anyone who thinks that it's a bad game, let alone one of the worst of the DECADE [?] does NOT understand or appreciate Serious Sam. You made the stupid mistake of comparing it to more recent games, as opposed to seeing it for what it is... a parody of them, yes, GAMEPLAY wise SS2 is a parody of every FPS released since Duke Nukem 3D... you twat.

Holy freaking crap, HOUR OF VICTORY was the worst game that I've ever played. It's been making rounds between my friends and I for a year now, just so we can all experience how truly awful it is. It's so bad it gave me gout.

@Chris Hoke

Hour of Victory did indeed blow, and congratulations on the gout!

It's 'principles', not 'principals' for crying out loud.

I'm glad Darkest of day made it to the list. I played demo on my 360 last weekend and it was horrible as nothing I ever played. Why they even bother with demo? Are they trying to scare last few potential customers?

Darkest days was pretty funny..

Whats with all this hate against the Halo series, lol?

Halo is by far Microsoft's best shooter, and has been since its release with the launch of the original Xbox. Obviously pc/sony fan boys are hanging out here.

As for horrible FPS's, I think all those history channel ames look horrid...

"Halo is by far Microsoft's best shooter" Great argument. Really, that does make this shooter good.

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Halo was a great FPS. Unfortunately, Halo 2 and 3 didn't quite live up to expectations (although the majority of people would still call them good).

And where is Gods and Generals? That is, hands down, the worst FPS ever.

I actually found 'Darkest of Days' quite fun, while it was a relativity a short game. Going back in time to shoot period battlers with modern weapons was great.

I'm not quite sure how Darkest of Days got there, besides the lame last level and the shortness of it, it was very fun.