Winner: Titanfall 2
They really don’t make them like Titanfall 2 anymore. The rest of the games on this list nail their niche perfectly, but sometimes at the expense of another area. Titanfall 2 pulls everything off and it’s why we also nominated it for our overall Game of the Year.
Its campaign is one of the most well paced, fabulously written and voice acted FPS campaigns we’ve seen in a long time. At no point does Titanfall 2 ever wear out its welcome. Every mission adds a new quirk to make it feel different than the last, and instead of dragging anything out, it ends at just the right time.
It also has just as much replay value as the other great multiplayer games on this list. Titanfall 2 is incredibly addicting without needing a carrot on a stick… it’s simply just so much fun to play. There are a variety of game types — ones where you can play only as Pilots, or have a last mech standing Deathmatch with Titans — but Titanfall 2 shines brightest when you play the modes that have both sides interact together. Matches are whirlwinds that start out as your typical (but highly polished) twitchy, past-paced FPS experience and then evolve into a much more methodical, chess-like atmosphere once Titans start dropping on the field. Pulling off crazy moves like parkouring across half the map as a Pilot to dodge fire from massive mech, or ejecting high into the sky from a doomed Titan, just never gets old.
Read more about why Titanfall 2 was one of the most important games of 2016 right here if you so wish, but know for now that it was the most complete shooter experiences of 2016 and the winner of our Best First Person Shooter Award for 2016!
