Top 10 Action-FPS Games with an Interesting Plot/ Story Design

While shooters and "shoot 'em up for no apparent reason" games can be plenty of fun at times, sometimes its nice to experience some sort of interesting story or plot while playing what is currently one of the most popular video games genres, action-based first person shooters. Unfortunately, most games of this type that attempt to tell a decent story fail miserably, usually due to a lack of effort. Symptoms of a poor quality plot include  but are not limited to cheesy voice acting, uninteresting concepts/ delivery of concepts, fast and uninteresting campaigns, stories that seem incomplete or that have abrupt conclusions, dull characters that are difficult to care about, and Jill Sandwiches. Because fps games that successfully tell stories that are suspenseful, dramatic, interesting, comical, horrifying, etc. are not very common, we have constructed a list crediting first person shooter games that tell excellent stories/ have interesting plots (the list is organized from better to best)

10: F.E.A.R.

While I admittedly  know little about this series, the plot seems to be intriguing. To be fair, there are probably several games that tie with this one due to their excellent combination of fps mechanics and horror(possibly Dead Space).

9: Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason

As previously acknowledged, when the fps genre is successfully blended with survival horror, the resulting product has a high potential to tell a good, creepy, complex, suspenseful, and mysterious, story. This game is a perfect example of said potential game.

 8:Metro 2033

Another example of the previously described characteristics.

7:Fallout: New Vegas

New Vegas offers an fps experience in the RPG world.

 6:Call of Juarez

While Billy's campaign doesn't deliver as well as Ray's, this game would make an excellent western movie.

5:Deus Ex

The ability to access the same situations in different ways puts a positive spin on this game's story elements, and adds to its replay value as well.

4:BioShock  

Another excellent horror/suspense-fps

3:Half-Life 

While this game's plot isn't entirely original, it was blended with its gameplay in such a way that makes it very engaging, interesting, and seemingly original.

 2:Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

This game took all the western cliches that made the first game great and made them better. Bound in Blood does a very efficient and clever job of explaining what happened before the events of the first game; it explains connections between characters, the significance of seemly meaningless events, and it fills in some blanks that the first game left partially empty.

1:Golden Eye 007

The game is bond, James Bond. If you don't understand that, buy the game, play it, and understand why it's better than almost(if not) all modern fps games.