Best Shooter Games of the 2000s
Halo 3on 5 of 44 rankings2
BioShockon 5 of 44 rankings3
Halo: Combat Evolvedon 5 of 44 rankings4
Mass Effecton 4 of 44 rankings5
Resident Evil 4on 4 of 44 rankings6
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eateron 3 of 44 rankings7
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenalon 2 of 44 rankings8
Deus Exon 2 of 44 rankings9
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfareon 2 of 44 rankings10
Team Fortress 2on 2 of 44 rankings11
Half-Life 2on 3 of 44 rankings12
Halo 2on 2 of 44 rankings13
Left 4 Deadon 1 of 44 rankings14
Conker's Bad Fur Dayon 1 of 44 rankings15
Star Wars: Battlefront IIon 1 of 44 rankings16
Max payne 2on 1 of 44 rankings17
TimeSplitters: Future Perfecton 1 of 44 rankings18
Counter-Strikeon 1 of 44 rankings19
Resident Evilon 1 of 44 rankings20
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotson 1 of 44 rankings21
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakeson 1 of 44 rankings22
Call of Duty: World at Waron 1 of 44 rankings23
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Cityon 1 of 44 rankings24
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyaton 1 of 44 rankings25
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cellon 1 of 44 rankings26
Tribes 2on 1 of 44 rankings27
Max Payneon 1 of 44 rankings28
Unreal Tournament 2004on 1 of 44 rankings29
Thief II: The Metal Ageon 1 of 44 rankings30
Left 4 Dead 2on 1 of 44 rankings31
Call of Duty 3on 1 of 44 rankings32
Hitman: Contractson 1 of 44 rankings33
Metal Arms: Glitch in the Systemon 1 of 44 rankings34
Preyon 1 of 44 rankings35
Gears of War 2on 1 of 44 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 44 independent rankings, recounted 19 October 2026, the best Shooter game of the 2000s is Halo 3, followed by BioShock and Halo: Combat Evolved.
How this is counted
This chart counts 44 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Shooter and released in the 2000s, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 19 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.
12 of the 44 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.