In the world of video games everyone has guns. Your neighbor, your mailmain, the toddler on that tricycle; they're all packing. Luckily, you're usually just as well armed and if the Call of Duty games are any indicator most people are eager to gun down wave after wave of faceless foes. To celebrate this unbridled violence, we present you New England Gamer's five favorite shooters.

If there has been a single genre dominating this generation it has been the first person shooter. Nary a month goes by without some big shooter hitting shelves, purporting to be the next Call of Something or Other. That said, this generation has also been one that has dramatically reshaped the first person shooter. Multiplayer is now arguably the most important aspect of a successful shooter. Single player campaigns rarely break six hours and accessibility tends to be more important than challenge. That kind of sucks, but whatever, I feel like writing about shooters today, so here are the top five that have stood out most in my life.

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