{"id":123396,"date":"2022-02-01T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123396"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:53:36","slug":"the-5-best-selling-fps-games-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123396-the-5-best-selling-fps-games-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The 5 best-selling FPS games of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blasting through your foes with a chunk of metal that has smaller pieces of metal exploding from it can be a very satisfying experience &#8211; hence the immense popularity of the FPS genre.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the FPS games that brought our trigger-happy hearts the most joy and left our wallets weeping, according to data from Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_video_games\">List of best-selling games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">1. Duck Hunt<\/h3>\n<p>Duck Hunt was first released in 1984 by Nintendo for their gaming console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Since then, it has racked up <strong>28,300,000<\/strong> sales and probably countless more digital duck lives.<\/p>\n<p>Players make use of the NES Zapper, an electronic light gun accessory, to shoot the ducks and progress to the next level after a certain number of kills.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3sfsP9W048\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.&#8221; is the phrase Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has etched into the minds of <strong>15,700,000<\/strong> buyers.<\/p>\n<p>This title was the fourth entry in the Call of Duty series but the first to be set in modern times. Its single-player campaign received critical acclaim and has some of the most iconic missions in the FPS genre.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhuIjNSg7Gg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">3. Halo 3<\/h3>\n<p>Number 3, rather aptly, is the third entry in the Halo series.<\/p>\n<p>A cybernetically enhanced supersoldier called Master Chief demolishes alien races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where do I sign up?&#8221; is probably what <strong>15,000,000<\/strong> buyers asked themselves while furiously ripping their wallets from their pockets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9Ezd2FqxAU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">4. Half-Life<\/h3>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s debut product brought us the adventures of the scientist Gordan Freeman who fights to survive against the aliens that have invaded the Black Mesa Research Facility. With <strong>9,300,000<\/strong> sales worldwide, it remains a classic.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? Yes, of course, I&#8217;m still waiting for Half-Life 3 to be released.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wavn29LMrs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">5. GoldenEye 007<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Bond. James Bond.&#8221; is probably what reverberated through the developers\u2019 skulls as they pioneered an FPS with innovations like stealth elements and split-screen multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it was released in 1997, it remains a beloved classic with <strong>8,000,000<\/strong> sales worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o_He0DEF1Sc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Title<\/th>\n<th>Sales<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Duck Hunt<\/td>\n<td>28,300,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare<\/td>\n<td>15,700,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Halo 3<\/td>\n<td>15,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Half-Life<\/td>\n<td>9,300,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>GoldenEye 007<\/td>\n<td>8,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123351-pc-vs-console-war-a-possible-ceasefire\">PC vs Console war: A possible ceasefire?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FPS games have kept gamers enamored since the genre became popular &#8211; here&#8217;s a list of the top 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":93691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2202,21,10005],"class_list":["post-123396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-fps","tag-headline","tag-top-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126083,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123396\/revisions\/126083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}