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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Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies Windows (1998) In Stratosphere you own a fortress flying on a bit of rock. Via an editor, you can add different enhancements...
Stratton Commodore 64 (1987) The Stratton Air Terminal is the latest comfort in space travel. Disaster has struck though. A terrorist bomb has exploded...
Street Fighter X Mega Man Windows (2012) Characters from Street Fighter and Mega Man meet in a special game in celebration of the 25th anniversary of both...
Streets of SimCity Windows (1997) Race through or create havoc in one of 50+ cities, or import your own SimCity 2000 cities for battle-on-wheels! Play...
Strefa Ciemności Amiga (1994) Strefa Ciemności (Dark Zone) is a typical shooter game. Hordes of alien ships are invading our Universe in order to...
Strife DOS (1996) In the distant future, the Earth is ruled by a group of people who call themselves "The Order". Many disasters...
Strike Base DOS (1996), Windows (1996) and Windows 3.x (1996) In Strike Base the earth is once again threatened by alien forces. The player controls Admiral Leighton who has to...
Strike Force: Cobra Amstrad CPC (1986), Commodore 64 (1986) and ZX Spectrum (1986) The Enemy has kidnapped the world's top computer scientists, and is intent on cracking into your supercomputer. Strike Force Cobra...
Strike Force Harrier Amiga (1988), Atari ST (1988), Commodore 64 (1986), ZX Spectrum (1986), Amstrad CPC (1986), MSX (1986), Electron (1986) and BBC Micro (1986) Rod Hyde was always determined to produce the most realistic and advanced flight simulations ever, and this early attempt at...
Strike Gunner S.T.G. SNES (1992) Strike Gunner S.T.G. is a vertical-scrolling jet fighter adventure set in the far-off year of A.D. 2008. The player controls...
StrikePoint PlayStation (1996) and DOS (1996) The terrorist organization named Hex has placed deadly ShockWave devices worldwide. If triggered, they will cause total destruction of the...
Striker DOS (1985) A lone chopper armed with machine guns and bombs must navigate through five missions in order to rescue people and...
Strikers 1945 PlayStation (1998) and SEGA Saturn (1998) Strikers 1945 is a 2D side-scrolling shooter with a WWII theme. Use basic weaponry and many power-ups for real and...
Strikers 1945 PlayStation (1996) and SEGA Saturn (1996) Strikers 1945, not to be confused with the US PSX game Strikers 1945, which is actually the sequel Strikers 1945...
Strikers 1945 Plus PSP (2009) and iPhone (2009) Strikers 1945 Plus is a port of the classic Neo-Geo arcade game. Unlike other games in the series, this is...
Stronghold Atari 2600 (1983) You are sent to check out an abandoned asteroid base called Stronghold. As you approach, drones are launched from the...
Sturmwind Dreamcast (2013) Sturmwind is a horizontally scrolling shoot'em up with 16 levels divided into seven worlds, with each of the levels concluding...
Sub Duel Commodore 64 (2008) Sub Duel is a one-on-one duel between two submarines. You can damage your opponent by shooting torpedoes at them or...
Sub Hunt Atari ST (1989) Sub hunt is a shoot-em-up game between a Russian chopper (player one) and an American submarine (player two). The players...
Sub Hunter Commodore 64 (2008) A government experiment has gone horribly wrong and, now, fish have mutated. You must save swimmers trapped by the mutant...
Submarine Attack SEGA Master System (1990) In Submarine Attack, the player controls a submarine in an underwater environment. The player must shoot down enemies that are...
Submarine Fury DOS (1999) Go through each screen (playing as a submarine) and destroy all the enemies with your missiles.
SubSpace Windows (1997) Choose from 8 ships, each with different handling and weaponry characteristics. Fly with up to 250 other players simultaneously, fighting...
Sub Stalker Apple II (1990) Sight enemy subs from your command post in your yellow submarine -- then blast away!Since the first submarine of Leonardo...
Substation Atari ST (1995) Substation is a first-person shooter. The story focuses on an underwater base taken over by aliens. The player has to...