{"id":12588,"date":"2021-02-12T00:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/the-best-tactical-shooters-2021-ft-squad-hell-let-loose-post-scriptum"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T02:38:29","slug":"the-best-tactical-shooters-2021-ft-squad-hell-let-loose-post-scriptum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/the-best-tactical-shooters-2021-ft-squad-hell-let-loose-post-scriptum","title":{"rendered":"The best tactical shooters 2021 ft. Squad, Hell Let Loose, Post Scriptum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone that has been a fan of tactical shooters for a long time will know that at one point the technology just wasn’t there to realise gamers dreams.<\/p>\n

Sure we had talented development teams putting out games like the original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon titles, Delta Force, and SWAT.<\/p>\n

Gradually the bigger game development studios moved away from tactical shooters to pitch their tent in the much more lucrative casual shooter with the Battlefield and Call of Duty series reigning supreme on both console and PC.<\/p>\n

The fans of an FPS grounded in reality hadn’t disappeared though, and it was indie developers that picked up the mantle and ran with it. Unreal Tournament had a little mod called Red Orchestra with a team that would go on to be known as Tripwire Interactive.<\/p>\n

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(Picture: Tripwire Interactive)<\/span><\/p>\n

Battlefield 2 too had a mod that would long outlive that game – Project Reality – which would become a behemoth over its 15 years in development featuring 15 fully realised factions, many maps, and honestly completely outgrew the BF2 engine. The game even spawned its own mods that would later be incorporated into the game. Those developers many of you will know are the nucleus of the studio behind Squad.<\/p>\n

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Project Reality is still in development 15 years after its initial release. (Picture: The Project Reality Team)<\/span><\/p>\n

Now with those studios all-grown-up and the democratization of game development through free-to-use engines such as Epic Game’s Unreal Engine we now have multiple studios developing competing and complementary tactical shooters. And importantly with player bases that can sustain the development of these projects that, as anyone who has followed the genre knows, takes years (decades?) to fully-realise.<\/p>\n

The best tactical shooters 2021<\/h3>\n

In short – it’s a great time to be a fan of tactical shooters. So having said all that if you are in the market for one, or want to whet your appetite for what is coming up we thought we would break down the best tactical shooters in 2021. From those already released and being continually updated to those that are just starting their journeys – here they are.<\/p>\n

Squad<\/h3>\n

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(Picture: Steam user \/Percy)<\/span><\/p>\n

Entering early access all the way back in 2015, every year Squad gets better and better. To save too much of a preamble squad is the spiritual sequel to Project Reality, a combined-arms tactical shooter, players are split into one of two teams, and then squads of eight, with a player-controlled Commander dictating the action on both sides. <\/p>\n

Set up bases, control key areas, engage enemy forces, fight, retreat. Call in arty, helicopter evacs, relay information to other squads and that’s just if you are an infantry soldier.<\/p>\n

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(Picture: Offworld Industries)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also fly said helicopters, be an artillery gunman, exclusively run supplies and build bases. It’s simply the best tactical shooter based on modern warfare on the market and nothing even comes near.<\/p>\n

Officially released in September of last year, v1.0 brought with it 100 player servers, a map based on Fallujah, the scene of some of the most dangerous fighting of the second Gulf war, as well as the pan-Middle Eastern Alliance faction with all their weapons and vehicles.<\/p>\n