Greatest Third Person Shooters?

[Manhattan Sports Club]

I know FPSes are all the rage these days, but I really think one shooting-based genre that is severely underrated is the third person shooter. I must say that I am a bigger fan of TPS than FPS, and I recently got ahold of Jet Force Gemini, an N64 game by Rare that I always wanted to try. Project Eden for PS2 was also added, since it was described as a cross between a TPS and action-puzzler ala The Lost Vikings (which is awesome). Some of my favorites in the genre include Fur Fighters (DC/PC/PS2/IPad), Metal Arms: Glitch in the System (GC/PS2/XBOX), both MechAssault games for Xbox and even Tomb Raider which incorporated many TPS elements.

I'm also looking to try P.N.03 for Gamecube, and Gun for Xbox, which has a Western theme.

Also, what would you consider to be examples of good 2D TPSes? I ask since it's a largely 3D genre.

[kupomogli]

Armored Core, Twisted Metal, Dirge of Cerberus, Stranglehold, Max Payne, Gears of War, Army of Two, Uncharted, Wild Guns, and Cabal.

If you're looking for 2D tps, Wild Guns is the best imo. Cabal was released earlier and plays the same.