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#9. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Splash Damage took id Software's Quake franchise and created a solid multiplayer-oriented shooter with single player campaign elements and impressive offline AI bots. The Activision published game took a prequel approach to the Quake franchise (always a tricky move) but did so with some deep gameplay mechanics, great looking graphics, and overall a game that moved far enough away from the Battlefield style multiplayer formula to make it feel original but still kept what worked in that formula to make it entertaining.

#8. Supreme Commander

This Gas Powered Games sci-fi RTS title published by THQ was supposed to be the "spiritual successor" to the terrific Total Annihilation (created by Gas Powered's founder Chris Taylor) and it (mostly) managed to accomplish this task. This game was by far the most diverse and most colorful of the many quality RTS games released for the PC in 2007 as the three factions fought for control. You have your massive units, you have your support for dual monitors and you have lots and lots of nukes. There's little that you can do wrong with picking this game up.

#7. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl

It took a good long while but GSC Game World's long awaited post apocalyptic open world shooter (published by THQ) turned out to be worth it in the end. It's not a happy place to explore but you will catch yourself checking out the bleak game universe in S.T.A.L.K.E.R which combines first person shooter aspects with RPG features and GTA style open world gameplay. While there are a few bugs in the game that have since been corrected by patches, it's still one of the best shooter titles in 2007.