Shooter
Description
Shooters are action games in which the player character shoots enemies.
The shooting is usually performed with firearms in these games; however, any weapon that dispatches projectiles qualifies, which makes many games (e.g.
Heretic) that rely on medieval ranged weaponry or even magical projectiles shooters as well.
There are many shooter sub-genres, including
fixed-screen shooters,
scrolling shooters,
rail shooters, and others.
Since the emergence of 3D graphics, 3D shooters, popularized by
Wolfenstein 3D and
Doom, have become the leading representatives of the genre. This sub-genre is sometimes referred to as
first-person shooter, though this definition is not very precise, since the genre's distinguishing feature are 3D environments, not the perspective; some 3D shooters allow players to switch between perspectives, while others enforce a third-person view.
3D shooters may incorporate elements of other genres, most commonly role-playing (e.g.
System Shock games and
Deus Ex).
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Amstrad CPC (1989), MSX (1989), ZX Spectrum (1989) and DOS (1989) Cosmic Sheriff is a shoot 'm up game and you control Peter Jones, the Cosmic Sheriff who has to take... |
Commodore 64 (1990) Released with the MAGNUM "lightphaser" lightgun, cosmic storm made up one of the six games packaged with the peripheral. The... |
Atari 2600 (1982) You are at the Waypoint Interstellar Trade Depot, a quiet outpost in space, when suddenly a dormant group of alien,... |
ZX Spectrum (1985) Is there anything uglier than a human female? The Rygellian Slime Beasts know that their enemies the Cosmic Wartoads believe... |
SNES (1992) Cosmogang: The Video is a shooter with similarities to Galaga. The player's space ship is fixed on the bottom of... |
Linux (2009) and Windows (2007) Cosmos Remake is a remake of Cosmos, a classic game originally released for the ZX Spectrum system.In Cosmos, the player... |
Game Boy (1990) CosmoTank is a space tank battle game. You're the commander of the tank 'Tiger a-1' and your mission is to... |
Windows (2007) Cottage of Doom is an isometric action game and it's a parody of typical B category horror flicks. In the... |
Amiga (1991), Atari ST (1990) and DOS (1990) In the game you play a role of the special agent Cougar. Your mission is to penetrate the criminal's fortress... |
Wii (2007) In 2102 C.E., a giant asteroid enters Earth's orbit, only to be revealed too late that inside are a horde... |
Windows (2005) This compilation includes:
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Day of Defeat (Steam version only)
Deathmatch Classic (Steam version only)
Ricochet (Steam... |
Windows (2004) Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a reworked version of Counter-Strike with the addition of all-new multiplayer maps and high-detail player and... |
Macintosh (2012), PlayStation 3 (2012), Windows (2012) and Xbox 360 (2012) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is an online first-person shooter in which the player joins up with either a group of terrorists... |
Windows (2008) Counter-Strike Online is a version of Counter-Strike for the Asian gaming market. New features include female characters, new skins, new... |
Windows (2004), Macintosh (2010) and Linux (2012) Based on the original Half-Life online multiplayer mod Half-Life: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source is an updated version using the Source engine... |
Windows (2006) Counter-Strike: Source + Garry's Mod is a Steam bundle containing the mod Garry's Mod and the multiplayer game Counter-Strike: Source.The... |
Windows (2005) Country Justice: Revenge of the Rednecks is a first-person shooter similar in themes and humour to the Redneck Rampage games.... |
PlayStation (2000) The French ambassador Pierre Simon and his family are travelling from Saint Petersburg to Paris aboard the Blue Harvest, a... |
Windows (2008) Cowboyana tells the tales of Billy Blue and Rufus Red as cowboys in the Wild West. They spend their days... |
PlayStation (1998) So you wanna be a bounty hunter, eh? Let me tell ya somethin', kid...it ain't easy. But I'll teach ya.... |
PlayStation 2 (2005) Taking place in the Cowboy Bebop universe, the year is 2071 and the earth has been destroyed. But humanity lives... |
Xbox 360 (2007) It's time to take back the streets! With Pacific City under the iron grip of three ruthless gangs: Los Muertos,... |
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Xbox 360 (2010) Crackdown 2 is the sequel to Crackdown and it has the same third-person shooter gameplay set in an open world.... |
Atari 2600 (2002), Atari 7800 (1988) and Atari ST (1987) As a professional ornithologist, you're thrilled to find out that some rare South American hornbills have nested in your "old... |
