VGChartz’s Thomas Froehlicher: “Massive scale, massive budgets, massive number of hours played, massive sales… Everything about shooters nowadays is massive. With Call of Duty having been leading software sales in America nearly every year of the last decade, the genre is among the most important in gaming and there’s a lot at stake in the yearly competition. Far Cry 5 has been selling at record pace and Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII still rules in every country, so shooter fans have clearly devoted themselves to their favorite genre this year. And despite having muted sales receptions our other shortlisted titles – Battlefield V and Insurgency: Sandstorm – offered high quality experiences in 2018.”
Source: N4G PC Best Shooter of 2018