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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Flyout Windows (2007) Flyout is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up written for the Shmup-Dev Autofire 2007 competition. The player controls a small ship flying up...
Forbes Corporate Warrior Windows (1997) Forbes Corporate Warrior uses the first person shooter genre as a metaphor for the cutthroat business world. The premise is...
Forbidden Planet Amstrad CPC (1986) and ZX Spectrum (1986) The Evil Lord has set up a system of defences on the Forbidden Planet, to help him return to power....
Forced Alliance: The Glarious Mandate Windows (1997) Forced Alliance is a space combat simulation. In the game, you play a pilot who is a member of a...
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood Macintosh (2009) and Windows (2009) Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is an action-based, stylistic third-person shooter. As the sole surviving member of a Foreign Legion...
Formation Armed F TurboGrafx-16 (1990) Formation Armed F is a vertically scrolling shooter. The basic gameplay principle offers no surprises: shooting a lot of aliens...
Formation Z MSX (1985), NES (1985) and Wii (2009) The player competes in a marathon continuous scrolling horizontal shoot-em-up game across land, sea, air and outer space. You can...
Forsaken Windows (1998), PlayStation (1998) and Nintendo 64 (1998) Earth has been rendered largely uninhabitable by an explosion caused by a bungled experiment. Few would dare to brave its...
Fortified Zone Game Boy (1991) and Nintendo 3DS (2011) A male and a female commando named Masato & Mizuki are sent to the jungle on a mission to destroy...
Fortress BBC Micro (1983) Fortress is a clone of SEGA's Zaxxon, copying many elements of the original game. Using a scrolling isometric perspective, players...
The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki DOS (1994) This is one of the tons of Doom clones that were released in 1994/1995. The story: Dr. Radiaki has created...
Fortress of Narzod Vectrex (1982) You are in a hovercraft in a interestingly drawn land, Ahead is the Fortress of Narzod. From it's gate come...
Fortress Underground Amiga (1987), Commodore 64 (1987), Atari 8-bit (1987) and Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1987) A hostile power station has been discovered in a huge underground cavern. Your mission is to destroy it. Your battle...
Four Second Fury Browser (2006) Four Second Fury is, similar to the WarioWare series, a collection of 20 micro games. Each game lasts four seconds...
Foxeroids Windows (2003) Foxeroids is a simple clone of Asteroids, with no special features. Using the cursor keys, the player guides Bouncing Fox's...
Fox Ranger DOS (1992) Fox Ranger is a side scrolling space shooter from Korea. There are 6 stages with an end-boss at the end...
Fox Ranger II: Second Mission DOS (1993) An alien organism has infiltrated Earth's atmosphere and sunk deep into the ocean. Eventually, it grew and spread over the...
Foxx Fights Back ZX Spectrum (1988) and Commodore 64 (1988) Usually, it would be farmers who get sent out of the house by their lady to go off and shoot...
Fractal Fighter Windows (2007) Fractal Fighter is a shooting game, where the player's spaceship engages several large enemy ships in one-on-one combat. The enemy...
Fracture PlayStation 3 (2008) and Xbox 360 (2008) Fracture takes the player to the year 2161, where a technological and ideological war has broken out between the two...
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Commodore 64 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985) and Amstrad CPC (1986) Playing a thoroughly drab, mundane and predictable character, your aim is to become interesting enough to reach the Pleasuredome. After...
Fraxxon J2ME (2002) Playing as starfighter pilot Jake Striker of the Global Alliance, you are the final line of defense on a moon-based...
Fray in Magical Adventure MSX (1990) and PC-98 (1991) Fray In Magical Adventure is a side-story in the Xak series. The events of the game are parallel to those...
Fray in Magical Adventure CD: Xak Gaiden TurboGrafx CD (1994) This version of Fray in Magical Adventure differs from the original MSX and subsequent computer releases in several ways. It...
Freedom Fighters PlayStation 2 (2003), GameCube (2003), Xbox (2003) and Windows (2003) The Soviet Union has invaded New York City! Chris Stone is just a plumber, and he's willing to live out...