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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Alpha Black Zero: Intrepid Protocol Windows (2004) Alpha Black Zero: Intrepid Protocol is a tactical third-person shooter set in the year 2366. The planet Qahira (formerly Mars)...
Alpha Blaster MSX (1984) Alpha Blaster is a vertical shooter. You control a space fighter at the bottom of the screen which can scroll...
Alpha Blasters Xbox 360 (2010) Alpha Blasters is a single-screen arena shooter similar to Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. The player is put in control of...
Alpha Mission NES (1986), PSP (2011) and PlayStation 3 (2011) Out beyond, in the galaxy of Tetrenova, a war has been fought that has exhausted resources and even worlds. The...
Alpha Mission II Neo Geo (1991), Neo Geo CD (1994), PlayStation 3 (2010) and PSP (2011) In the year 2525 space is again threatened. Only the legendary Super Jet Plane SYD can defeat the invading armada...
Alpha Prime Windows (2006) Alpha Prime is a rather unusual asteroid which holds in its rocks the veins of a material called hubbardium. This...
Alpha Protocol PlayStation 3 (2010), Windows (2010) and Xbox 360 (2010) Michael Thorton. A name without a past. A person whose life before joining Alpha Protocol no longer exists. Alpha Protocol...
Alpha Protocol (Kollekzionnoe izdanie) Windows (2010) The collector's edition released in Russia. Includes these items: Alpha Protocol Manual. "Secret agent briefing" album. Flashlight-keyholder with Alpha Protocol...
Alpha Squad Xbox 360 (2011) In the not so distant future, Earth is ruled by a military dictatorship known as The Alliance. They have put...
Alpha Storm DOS (1997) Alpha Storm is a spaceship simulator and a first person shooter. You can travel through star systems. Encounter enemy fleets...
Alpha Wing J2ME (2003) When the intergalactic alliance is coming to an end, you are sent in a modern Alpha Wing fighter to locate...
Alpha Zone 3D J2ME (2005) 3D Alpha Zone is a first-person shooter heavily inspired by DOOM. It is powered by the in-house developed Gem Xenotime...
Alphos PC-88 (1983) Alphos is a basic vertically-scrolling shooter patterned after the 1982 Namco coin-op Xevious. Piloting the fighter craft Mnemonic, the player...
Alphαroid MSX (1986) "SOS! Centacom! Our central computer has broken down. We will be delivered to the Gentiles. Unless Space Marshall Alpharoid restores...
Al's Home Windows (2002) Al's Home is a freeware game in which your job is to collect various given monster types on the bottom...
Altaïr Atari ST (1987) In this top-down arcade shooter you are a pilot of space craft, breaking through a strongly defended enemy space station...
Altitude Windows (2009), Linux (2009) and Macintosh (2009) Altitude is a shoot 'em up in which the player controls one of five airplanes, each with different abilities, in...
Ambush Commodore 64 (1984) Ambush is a space shooter which is played on a single screen with no scrolling. You can move your vessel...
A.M.C.: Astro Marine Corps Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990), Commodore 64 (1990), ZX Spectrum (1989), MSX (1989) and Amstrad CPC (1989) A.M.C.: Astro Marine Corps is a sideways scrolling shooter in which you control a member of the Astro Marine Corps...
American McGee presents Bad Day L.A. Windows (2006) You play as Anthony Williams, a homeless person in Los Angeles who doesn't give a shit. One day, as he...
American McGee's Alice Windows (2000) and Macintosh (2001) Shortly after Alice returned from the miraculous trip through the Looking-Glass, her house was burnt down, and her parents died...
America's Army 3 Windows (2009) America's Army 3 is the third main installment of the America's Army franchise. This official game of the U.S. Army...
America's Army: Operations Windows (2002), Linux (2003) and Macintosh (2003) In America's Army: Operations, the player is cast into the role of an ordinary American soldier. They must begin the...
America's Army: Rise of a Soldier Xbox (2005) This is the console version of America's Army: Operations., the U.S. Army's free "recruitment tool" for computers. As in the...
America's Army: Rise of a Soldier (Special Edition) Xbox (2005) This special edition was only sold in Target stores in the US. It contains the full game America's Army: Rise...