Looking for titles that let you go pew pew? You’ve come to the right place. Also looking to feel emotionally connected to the character doing the pew pewing? You’re definitely in the right place. Despite the first-person shooter promise of total immersion, third-person shooters have a way of getting the player invested in their protagonists in a way that POV games struggle to do. Rather than a floating pair of hands, the player experiences a third-person protagonist as exactly that: a person. With the action of an FPS and the narrative drama of an RPG, these are the greatest third-person shooter games of all time.
