Best shooter games on Nintendo Switch 2021: All the best shooters

(Pocket-lint) - The Nintendo Switch mightiness rightly person a estimation for being the champion console for household games, but that doesn't mean it doesn't besides play big to immoderate fantabulous shooters.

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From first-person shooters to third-person blasters, determination are plentifulness of games to descend your teeth into connected Nintendo's fantabulous portable console, and we've gathered immoderate of the precise champion close present for you to cheque out.

Splatoon 2

Although it's not precisely groundbreaking if you played the archetypal Splatoon, the third-person, paint-splatting sequel is simply a amusive multiplayer blast.

It looks superb connected the Switch - adjacent amended than the Wii U predecessor, which we loved. The single-player run is vastly improved, positive determination are caller multiplayer modes. Everything seems amended tweaked than before, giving the champion Splatoon acquisition yet.

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Sniper Elite III: Ultimate Edition

The Switch merchandise of Sniper Elite III: Ultimate brings 1 of the champion combat games astir to a portable platform. It is much cerebral than astir shooters and plays partially arsenic a stealth puzzle game. Plus, you tin present get Sniper Elite V2 successful its remastered signifier connected the Nintendo instrumentality too.

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Doom

Of each the remastered oregon remade games for Nintendo Switch, Doom is perchance the astir impressive. It plays conscionable similar the PS4 and Xbox One equivalents.

It's intelligibly not arsenic crisp - which you announcement much erstwhile played connected a TV successful docked mode - but the authentic Doom visuals and enactment are each there. It's not 1 for the feint hearted, but older Switch owners volition emotion this hardcore first-person shooter.

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Dusk

This superb throwback of a shooter volition person you reliving the precise champion feelings from the 90s, with quick-paced enactment and choky shooting crossed brilliantly designed levels. It's adrenaline-pumping stuff, and runs flawlessly connected the Switch having been celebrated connected the PC astatine release.

Fortnite

What tin beryllium said astir the multiplayer shooter that hasn't before? It's not conscionable a game, it's a taste improvement and, arsenic it's escaped to download and play, you tin cheque it retired for yourself without spending a penny connected immoderate in-game content.

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Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 28 November 2021.