Blacklight: Retribution
IGN Score: 8.5
​Blacklight: Retribution developer Zombie Studios isn't trying to reinvent the first-person shooter genre. Instead, it's taken familiar modes and combined them with excellent visuals and some of the tightest shooting controls since Call of Duty. But the team smartly realized that even good shooting isn't enough to draw entrenched players away from their favorite games, and made Blacklight even more compelling with a free-to-play system that pairs well with Blacklight's complex character and weapon customization. The end result: a great competitive shooter that's fun enough that its flaws are easy to overlook.
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IGN Score: 9.0
​​Tribes: Ascend​
Hitting a target with a projectile is the most basic goal in every shooter, but Tribes: Ascend might make it the most satisfying. Not because it sounds awesome, or because the guns make you feel powerful (though they do), but because scoring a hit takes a unique set of skills. The movement system in Tribes makes every battlefield into a playground, where good players can soar above the competition – both in terms of score and verticality. Tribes feels like a breath of fresh air for the shooter genre, and is quite possibly the best free-to-play game to date
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