
Image: Bungie, High Moon Studios/Activision Destiny 2s latest season. No Borderlands, Destiny or The Division here, so everybody put the pitchforks away. For games that offer multiplayer gaming, youll be able to play with others who.

Please note, for purposes of this article we’re focusing on cooperative shooters of the non-looter shooter variety. With so many games utilizing this structure, let’s take a look at the best of the best and see which one reigns supreme. More recent entries into the genre have added things like campaign modes, loadouts, or RPG-like progression mechanics like weapon unlocks and character class leveling to keep players coming back for more. The basic formula is simple - take the level-based horde mode popularized in games like Gears of War and then add a light coat of story and some linear level traversal to tie it all together.

The release of Back 4 Bloodmarks yet another entry into the cooperative multiplayer shooter category, a genre that owes its popularity, in large part, to the huge success of developer Turtle Rock Studio’s other series, the legendary Left 4 Dead and its sequel.
