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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Atari 2600 (1983) Star Fox is a horizontally scrolling action game. You control a starship on a foreign planet with the mission of... |
Nintendo 64 (1997) and Wii (2007) Fox McCloud returns to once again rid evil from the Lylat System in this 64-bit remake of the SNES hit.... |
Nintendo 3DS (2011) Star Fox 64 3D is an update of Star Fox 64. This version includes a Score Attack mode in which... |
GameCube (2005) The Lylat System has been at peace for several years after the mysterious disaster was averted on Dinosaur Planet. But,... |
Nintendo DS (2006) Fox McCloud is back for more!General Pepper has fallen ill, and requests that (the now elderly) Peppy Hare take his... |
SNES (1993) Star Fox Competition Weekend Edition is a rare version of Star Fox (StarWing in Europe) that was sold as a... |
SNES (1994) and Genesis (1995) Based on the movie of the same name, a mystical circular portal called a "Stargate" has been uncovered. In attempting... |
Windows (2010) Stargate: Resistance is an online, 3rd person shooter based on the science fiction television series Stargate: SG-1. As the war... |
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DOS (1989), Amiga (1988), Atari ST (1988), ZX Spectrum (1989), PC-98 (1991) and Macintosh (1989) More space combat and strategy in this sequel, which challenges you to collect the elements to form a bomb to... |
DOS (1989), Atari ST (1988) and Amiga (1988) Star Goose a top-down space shooter in which you move through a semi-3D environment shooting rounds and missiles at your... |
Windows (2009) and Macintosh (2009) Star Guard is a 2D platformer brought back to the basic elements of the genre: jumping and shooting, with a... |
DOS (1996) Another side scrolling aircraft fighting game. You fight through a colorful landscape to do what is always done in these... |
Atari 2600 (1982) Players take the role of a stargunner for the Yarthae Empire. The Empire is being invaded by the Sphyzygi. The... |
DOS (1994) You could think of Star Hammer as Wing Commander in 2D. You are the pilot of a combat space ship... |
PlayStation 3 (2012) Starhawk is a third-person shooter and the spiritual successor to Warhawk. The game retains the large-scale mayhem of the earlier... |
Game Boy (1993) The story of StarHawk is about an evil alien race which wants to conquer everything. The player controls a space... |
ZX Spectrum (1985), Amstrad CPC (1985) and Commodore 64 (1986) Aliens using a time machine have changed several crucial events in earth history. As Starion, a rookie starfighter pilot in... |
PlayStation (1999) Star Ixiom is a remake of the classic 1985 game Star Luster. You play the role of a pilot for... |
NES (1985) and Wii (2008) In Star Luster, the player controls Dan Heinick, a pilot of the starfighter Gaia. He is tasked with having to... |
Atari 2600 (1982) A cockpit view space shooter very similar to Star Raiders but not requiring a keypad. In your starship, you must... |
Windows 3.x (1997) Star Merc is a single-player, first-person, space shooter from Diversions Software. The object of the game is to achieve a... |
DOS (1992) StarMines II: Planet Of The Mines is a single player space shooter.A huge cloud of dangerous objects was discovered in... |
Windows (2001) Star Monkey is a shareware space shooter game that follows the legacy of such classics as Raiden, Aero Fighters, etc.... |
TurboGrafx CD (1992) and Wii (2008) Star Parodier is a "cute-'em-up" top-down shooter that lampoons the Star Soldier games by replacing most sci-fi elements with humorous... |
