Modern popamolers I enjoyed:
Vanquish - too bad you don't have a ps3, this game is really good. Cool bossfights, you can't just sit behind cover all time. One thing that bothered me was playing with the gamepad.
Transformers War for/Fall of Cybertron - "run and gun" and your character can turn into cars/jets/tanks.
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine - fun mix of shooting/slashing.
Dead Space 1, yeah "the enter room monsters spawn" formula is shit but I liked the combat. And it's a very pretty game.
Republic Commando - replayed it a few months ago, very cool for a popamoler with simplistic level design. Still wasted potential imo, this could be a lot better.
Metal Gear: Faggot Rising - not a shooter but I'll mention it. Fun slashing, bossfights, nice music. Downside: QTE's and retarded story/characters.
Quake 4, Doom 3. Quake is better imo, less of that retarded "horror" schtick.
Mass Effect 2
- Of course there are crappy cinematics, cringey characters and waifus but I kind of liked the shooting. The "vanguard" class is most fun to play imo. Of course this game is as popamole as it gets so proceed at your own risk.
EDIT: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, The "main quest" is popamole but I liked capturing enemy bases. You just enter the base and explore it any way you like while killing everyone inside with laser weapons. Has very cool 80's electronic music. Downside: it's short, hipster humour and "witty" popculture references at every corner.
Popamolers that imo suck, but are worth mentioning
Dark Void - I've only played the demo so I don't know if it's good. But maybe it's worth checking out. Your character has a jetpack that you can use at will, there are air fight with spaceships, the level structure seemed more "open" than just "move forward, enemies spawn etc." but I don't know how it looks like later in the game. It has QTEs from what I remember.
Spec Ops: The Line - A typical popamoler, boring as fuck, but it got praise for some reason, so maybe there's a chance you'll like it.
Kane and Lynch - just like Spec Ops, boring gameplay though kind of tolerable in small doses. Has some redeeming quality in cool characters and a non-military setting. Storming that corpotate building was cool.