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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Amiga (1993) Alien Breed II: The Horror has Gauntlet-influenced gameplay, similar to the original Alien Breed (and the Alien Breed Special Edition... |
Windows (2005) A continuation of the classic Alien Breed top-down series introducing new levels and various improvements on the original concept. In... |
Amiga (1992) An interrim between Alien Breed and its sequel. Gameplay is the same as its predecessor - each level is a... |
Amiga CD32 (1994) Alien Breed Special Edition & Qwak is a compilation which includes the following games on one CD:Alien Breed: Special Edition... |
DOS (1994), Amiga (1994) and Amiga CD32 (1994) A scientific outpost on a far off planet has been attacked. Nothing is known about the attackers, since all communications... |
Atari 7800 (1990) Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter similar to Operation Wolf. Aliens have arrived on earth and have brainwashed both... |
DOS (1997) and Windows (1997) In this 3D shooter, the player has to stop alien invasion. It all began with the near doubling of UFO... |
Nintendo 3DS (2013) Ex commando Really Shooter and his mother Poor Mama is running the cleaning service Clean House together. Sometimes when aliens... |
Macintosh (1998) On an unnamed planet the primordial races of Snoot and Gram have warred with each other since time immemorial, each... |
Windows (2007) The story is inspired by NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 missions. They carried golden plaques to space, depicting humans, in... |
BBC Micro (1982) and Electron (1983) Alien Dropout is a fixed screen shoot 'em up based on the arcade game Astro Invader. Earth is threatened by... |
CD-i (1993) Alien Gate is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which you fly a spacecraft over alien terrain while shooting... |
ZX Spectrum (1986) The sequel to Highway Encounter, which has a similar game system and appearance despite being written by someone else. Your... |
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Browser (2002) This flash version of Alien Hominid spawned the many console versions later released. This version only features the first level,... |
Windows (2003) Alien Horde is a side-scrolling shooter in a space setting. Your task is to rescue a man named Stig, who... |
Xbox 360 (2010) Alien Hunter is a first-person shooter (FPS) in which the player's character has been abducted by aliens and the player... |
Windows (2005) Four alien races determined to wipe out the Galarion system have only one thing in their way. A small ship... |
DOS (1997) Looking for a frantic action game that is all over in around 30 seconds? If so, this is your game.... |
Microvision (1981) Alien Raiders is one of the two Microvision games released in 1981. It is a fast-paced action game set in... |
DOS (1996) Alien Rampage is a 2D side-scroller with large animated sprites and multiple layers of parallaxing backgrounds.You are a lone angry... |
PlayStation (2000) Two hundred years after the events of Alien³, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley is cloned by military scientists interested in the Alien... |
Atari ST (1992) Aliens is a shoot'em-up game for high-resolution only. Just like in Space Invaders you control a spaceship at the bottom... |
Windows 3.x (1993) Aliens is a single player shareware game based on Taito's Space Invaders. As with the classic Space Invaders game the... |
Commodore PET/CBM (1980) Aliens! is a shooter in the vein of Space Invaders. Aliens will spawn infinitely at the top of the screen... |
