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).
 Game Title |
Windows (2011) Police (პოლიცია) is a first-person shooter made with the Unreal Development Kit. The game was initiated by the Ministry of... |
Windows (2011) This bundle includes previously released first part and its direct sequel (only available as part of the compilation). Second part... |
TRS-80 CoCo (1982) "They're here!" This game is based on Tobe Hooper's popular 1982 horror movie where the Freeling family occupy a haunted... |
Commodore 64 (1988) You are in control of a exorcist space craft and you must destroy a Poltergeist. Before this though you have... |
Windows (2010), Linux (2010) and Macintosh (2010) The Polynomial is a three dimensional space shooter with mathematically generated graphics whose animation depends on the music of the... |
SNES (1993) Another top-down shooter in the Twinbee "cute'em up" franchise.Heroes Light and Pastel decide to go out and help a young... |
Game Boy (1990) A remake of the classic top-down shooter TwinBee, released for the GameBoy portable consoles.TwinBee Da!! Puts you behind the controls... |
SNES (1994) You play as either Twinbee, Gwinbee or Winbee. Cooperative play is also available. In this mode the second player takes... |
Game Boy Color (2001) In Portal Runner you assume the role of the bow and arrow wielding Vikki G. Thinking she was investigating a... |
PlayStation 2 (2001) Brigitte Bleu began to rule the world after the imprisonment of General Plastro. She tries to get rid of her... |
Windows (1997) and Macintosh (1997) You've just gone off the deep end, and in your deeply demented mind, you've decided that this little peaceful town... |
Browser (2000) Aaron Premo is angry and wants to take his anger out on random people by going around shooting them.In Postal... |
Windows (2003) and Macintosh (2004) Postal 2 is the sequel to Postal, the gritty, violent, over-the-top game that was the target of almost every politician's... |
Windows (2004), Macintosh (2005) and Linux (2005) Apocalypse Weekend begins on the Saturday following the climactic Apocalypse at the end of Postal 2. As the shiftless Postal... |
Linux (2005), Windows (2003) and Macintosh (2004) Share the Pain combines the original Postal 2 single player game with new multiplayer gameplay. Owners of the original Windows... |
Windows (2003) and Macintosh (2012) This package is a re-release of the original Postal Plus compilation. It contains:Postal
Postal: Special Delivery
The 'Monday'-Demo of Postal²... |
Windows (2011) Postal III is the sequel to Running With Scissors' over-the-top violent, black humour-filled Postal 2. Following the nuclear devastation of... |
Linux (2001), Windows (2001) and Macintosh (2013) Postal Plus is a compilation of the original Postal and the Special Delivery add-on.Is he insane? Or are they really... |
Browser (2000) Postal: Real Edition plays the same as the original browser game Postal by Aaron Premo but features improved graphics, such... |
Windows (1998) and Macintosh (1998) This add-on pack for Postal includes four new levels, new characters, new sounds, new modes of play (co-op and a... |
Windows (2008) In a post-apocalyptic future, robots have finally conquered over the humans. However, in their calculations they left out one crucial... |
Amstrad CPC (1992), Commodore 64 (1992) and ZX Spectrum (1992) Potsworth the well-spoken dog and his Midnight Patrol chums (Rosie, Nick, Carter, Keiko and Freddy) were stars of a successful... |
Amiga (1988) P.O.W. is the second light-gun game for the Commodore Amiga similar in style to Operation Wolf. The premise is to... |
Amiga (1998) Powder is a sidescrolling "shmup" for the Amiga, made in a slightly cartoonish style much like many shooters for the... |
Amstrad CPC (1985), Commodore 64 (1986) and ZX Spectrum (1985) Mankind has spread throughout the solar system into vast colonies, which are under alien threat. The bad guys have anti-matter... |
