Remakes have become absurdly popular in the modern gaming landscape. Games like Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space are both great examples of this recent trends effect on the survival horror genre, however, first-person shooters have also received plenty of remakes over the years, such as Halo CE: Anniversary and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered both attempted take a beloved FPS and remake them for modern hardware.
There are, however, several great FPS games that sadly haven't received the same treatment, and worse yet aren't likely to in the near future. Here is a list of some of the best FPS games that have yet to receive a fully fledged remake.
8 Call Of Duty: World At War
Few Call of Duty titles have had as much to say on the topic of warfare as World at War had in 2008, and yet it's treated as a kind of red-headed stepchild by Activision. Not only did its predecessor receive a full remake, its immediate successor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, also received a single player remake.
It's disappointing because WAW is perhaps the best WW2 era COD title there is (even with its excessive grenade spam on Veteran) even when stacked up against the more graphically impressive but uninspired and even cynical, Call of Duty: WW2. Now imagine combining WAW's gruesome and thoughtful portrayal of war with Modern Warfare 2022's graphics.
7 Halo 3
Ok in truth, Halo 3 still looks pretty good even by today's standards. It's actually quite amazing how well most of its visuals have aged and much of that is due to its strong art direction. It makes sense that Halo CE and Halo 2 got the full anniversary treatment because even by 2007 they looked significantly dated. Halo 3, however, still has this magical look to it even if some individual parts haven't aged as well, such as the facial modeling and lip-syncing.
At most, Halo 3 could use a touch up in a few areas, maybe higher resolution textures and some models with more polygons, but other than this it's doubtful that a remake would actually improve on Bungie's original vision for the game.
6 BioShock
The original BioShock still ranks high among many gamer's list of greatest FPSs of all time, and it's easy to see why. Sporting a fantastically unique world dripping with venomous political commentary, BioShock is in many ways a once in a generation game that many are probably afraid to see receive the remake treatment out of fear they'll mess it up.
While the game still looks rather good even by today's standards, there are nonetheless plenty of areas in which a remake might improve upon, such as lighting systems (imagine a ray traced BioShock), weapons, animations, textures etc.
5 Battlefield Bad Company 2
If Battlefield 2042 proved anything, it's that those remade BFBC2 maps look a lot better now than they did in 2010. It begs the question, however; if it can be made to look that much better, why not remake one of the best Battlefield games ever made? While the original has its moments, it still has this almost cartoonish look to it that a remake could do away with modern graphical technology.
It's not just the base game that would look great either, the Vietnam multiplayer expansion had a whole personality unto itself that would look absolutely insane with modern tech.
4 Star Wars: Battlefront 2
While the series was brought back to life by EA in the 2010s, it just hasn't been the same since the days of Battlefront 2. Originally released in 2005 (just after Revenge of the sith), Battlefront 2 brought a bunch of new features like heroes, a narrative based campaign, and a whole host of new maps, weapons and vehicles that its predecessor was missing.
It's actually a shame this game never got a full remake because impressive feature set aside, the game is rather janky by modern standards and is certainly outdated graphically.
3 Fallout 3
While Skyrim and now Fallout 4 have had remakes of their own (one many more times than the other), Fallout 3 is just sitting in the corner languishing without a single remaster or remake to its name. It's a crime considering how popular it was when it first came out and how many people even consider it to be a superior game to both Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Even worse, the game doesn't even run well on modern gaming PCs without serious modding. Bethesda could probably throw a new coat of paint over the game and people would buy it in droves, especially if it ran better.
2 Half-Life 2
There may not be a Half-Life 3 in the foreseeable future, but Valve could just put out an HD remake of one of their most beloved games in the meantime. While Half Life 2 does still look pretty good these days (even better with mods), Half Life: Alyx shows that there's plenty to improve upon when it comes to the visuals and art direction of the series.
The first Half Life has had its own fan remake with Black Mesa, and even got a ray tracing mod somewhat recently, the latter of which would be really cool to see in HL2. Alas, there's virtually no indication that Valve plans to remake Half Life 2.
1 Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Many will remember how Wolfenstein: The New Order breathed new life into the aging Nazi bashing franchise, however, Return to Castle Wolfenstein did it all the way back in 2001 when it turned the archaic 2D corridor shooter into a sprawling, 3D dungeon crawler that wouldn't be topped until the aforementioned New Order released 13 years later.
Return Offers both a wonderfully atmospheric and action packed campaign as well as a stupidly fun multiplayer component that the series has sadly been missing since 2009's Wolfenstein. Frankly, the fact that this game hasn't gotten a single HD remaster, let alone full remake in two decades is absurd.