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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MSX (1986) Time Curb is a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up game. Players control a World War I plane and need to take out... |
ZX Spectrum (1983) In a universe terrorized by enemy ships, Earth has been invaded and taken over by an alien race going by... |
Windows (2000) Based on Michael (Jurassic Park) Crichton's latest novel, you are Chris Hughs, Yale grad student of archeology. When you discovered... |
Atari 2600 (1983), ColecoVision (1983), MSX (1983) and Xbox 360 (2006) Time Pilot is an arcade style shooter. Piloting your trusty spaceship, you need to destroy the squadrons of enemy craft... |
Windows (1999) The Times Exclusive Tomb Raider Level is a single standalone level (it doesn't require a Tomb Raider game to play... |
PlayStation 3 (2007), Windows (2007) and Xbox 360 (2007) In the nearby future scientists develop a so-called Quantum suit that allows the carrier to travel through time. Two prototypes... |
SNES (1993) On the reptilian planet of Tirmat, scientists have discovered a rift in space and plan to use it to transport... |
PlayStation 2 (2000) The TimeSplitters are an evil race dwelling outside of time and space. Roused from an ancient sleep, they cross the... |
PlayStation 2 (2002), Xbox (2002) and GameCube (2002) TimeSplitters 2, the sequel to Free Radical Design's PlayStation 2 launch title, once again sends players hurtling through time, as... |
GameCube (2005), PlayStation 2 (2005) and Xbox (2005) In the year 2401 the space marine Sergeant Cortez is leaving the space station that he visited in the end... |
Amstrad CPC (1986), Commodore 64 (1986), ZX Spectrum (1986) and MSX (1986) Dark forces have set out to destroy the fabric of time, by opening eight space-time continuum portals. Each one is... |
SNES (1994) Tin Star is a robot Sheriff in the Ol' West. He has vowed to rid the town of the Bad... |
PlayStation (1999) Tiny Tank mixes quirky humour, science fiction and action-packed tank battles. The player controls the wisecracking yellow mini-tank of the... |
PlayStation (1999) Plucky, Hamton and Furball from the television cartoon Tiny Toon Adventures need to escape from the spooky haunted mansion of... |
Linux (2006), Macintosh (2006) and Windows (2006) Invaders from Titan have arrived to wreak havoc upon Earth. It's up to a single fighter ship to destroy their... |
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DOS (1996) and SEGA 32X (1995) T-Mek is essentially an updated Battlezone. You are a warrior battling in the T-Mek competition, a hugely popular event in... |
Windows (1998) TNN (The Nashville Network cable television channel before it was renamed Spike TV) released several branded sports games including this... |
Windows (2008) Tobioriya is a short Ikiki game where players control a character standing on a platform on the right side of... |
PC-98 (1997) Reimu Hakurei, the young shrine maiden, has left the Hakurei shrine to train her newly discovered powers with the magical... |
PC-98 (1998) All seems peaceful at the Hakurei Shrine, which has been target for demonic invasions several times. Naturally, things can't go... |
PC-98 (1998) No rest for the wicked - that's something Reimu Hakurei, a young girl guarding the medieval Japanese Hakurei shrine, has... |
PC-98 (1996) Reimu Hakurei is a "shrine maiden", a young girl whose job was to protect shrines of the Shinto religion in... |
PC-98 (1997) Mysterious ruins were discovered in the vicinity of the Hakurei shrine in old Japan. Reimu Hakurei, the shrine maiden, wants... |
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