Whether you like your shooter games in first-person or third-person, it’s a great time to be a gamer. But that often leads to a daunting decision: what do I play with my free time?
The time crunch situation feels dire these days, and it will only get worse in the coming weeks. Tomorrow, Battlefield: RedSec launches as a new battle royale title. Two days later, on Oct. 30, ARC Raiders joins the fray as an extraction shooter. And then just over two weeks after that, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 brings multiplayer and Zombies to the table on Nov. 14.
How the hell does anyone have the time to play all of these games? As a fan of everything, and especially as someone who works in games media, I need to try it all. But there’s just not enough time to do it, especially considering they’re all time-sinks in different ways.
But what’s awesome, though, is that these three massive titles are all different in their own ways and will all be good for a specific mood or player. That’s why, to me, it feels like yet another golden age for shooter games is on the way.
Wanna drop in and be the last player standing? Then RedSec is for you. The free-to-play battle royale uses Battlefield 6‘s weapons and roles, along with a ring circle that kills you upon contact to up the stakes in the genre, building off of player feedback over months of playtesting to offer what may be the next big thing in gaming.
Is BR not your thing, but you still live for the thrill of high risk and high rewards? Then ARC Raiders may be up your alley. The third-person extraction shooter is a stellar PvPvE experience where you can group up with friends or go solo to use proximity chat and find enemies or allies while looting up. But if you die, you lose it all, so measure your movements carefully.
Me? I’m definitely more of a classic multiplayer kind of player. I like to turn off my brain and shoot stuff, and Black Ops 7 is perfect for that, especially with CoD’s newly toned-down skill-based matchmaking. Relaxing in a shooter game for me is all about turning on some music, grinding some camo challenges, or even slaying hordes of zombies with a Ray Gun. BO7 offers all of it.
Regardless of what game you gravitate to, they all are battling for your time (and money), and so I will be very interested to see what games dominate the charts for playtime and revenue in the waning days of fall and incoming winter of 2025.
I still don’t know what game I’ll end up playing the most in the coming weeks, but my situation is unique in that I will go where the work is needed. I’ll probably bounce back and forth and try them all each day to see where my heart lies, as well.
But for you, the consumer, which title do you think piques your interest the most? Let us know in the comments below, and get ready for the season of the shooter.
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