GameInformer: Military shooters have a long and venerable history in video gamesBefore Call of Duty and Battlefield began their war for complete market domination, smaller series like Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and SOCOM provided different takes on digital warfare.

These series differentiated themselves and the military shooter genre from other FPS franchises like Quake and Halo by emphasizing strategy and realismForgoing roller-coaster spectacle and nonstop action, they presented gamers with a pseudo-authentic military experience where every shot counted and tactics played a larger role in the outcome of a mission than itchy trigger fingers..