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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ATV Mania PlayStation (2003) ATV Mania is an all-terrain vehicle combat racing game. Modes include Championship, Single Race, and Time Attack.The main mode is...
ATV Racers PlayStation (2003) ATV Racers features a variety of animals who are out to win an ATV racing championship through means of vehicular...
A-Type Amiga (1998) Built around a shoot'em'up engine developed in 1994, A-Type was put together using ripped graphics from the famous R-Type for...
Au Sable Windows (2009) Au Sable is horror-themed, side-scrolling platform shooter and the sequel to All Our Friends Are Dead. It is likely named...
Auto Assault Windows (2006) Auto Assault is an MMORPG with fast-paced combat in a post-apocalyptic setting. As a player, you choose to play one...
Auto Assault (Collector's Edition) Windows (2006) After meteorites hit the earth a strange contamination with extraterrestrial spores covers the planet. As people, animals and plants alike...
Auto Destruct PlayStation (1997) Auto Destruct involves mission-based car combat. Unlike similar titles such as Destruction Derby and Twisted Metal, this doesn't focus on...
AUTS - The Ultimate Stress Relief Game DOS (1995) While Turboraketti was The Game that gave birth to the "cave flier" genre that grew incredibly popular especially in Finland...
Avatar Paintball Xbox 360 (2010) Avatar Paintball is a simple third-person shooter that pits players' Xbox Avatars against each other in a friendly game of...
Avatar Up Online Xbox 360 (2010) Avatar Up Online is a simple battle game for up to six players. Each player moves their avatar around the...
Avenger Commodore 64 (1982) and VIC-20 (1981) Avenger is a Space Invaders variant. The player has to defend Earth from endless rows of attacking aliens. Flying saucers...
Avenger Amstrad CPC (1986), Commodore 64 (1986), ZX Spectrum (1986), MSX (1986) and Thomson TO (1987) In the sequel to The Way of the Tiger, Yaemon the Grand Master of Flame is the villain of the...
Avenger TurboGrafx CD (1990) A devastating atomic war wiped out the biggest cities on the Earth and most of its population. Anarchy reigned, different...
Avenger DOS (1997) Avenger is a shareware shoot 'em up arcade style game from Finland for one or two players and which is...
Avina Blue Atari ST (1991) Avina Blue is a shoot'em-up written in 68000 assembler.Many hundred years from the computer revolution of the late 1900's software...
Awesome Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990) and FM Towns (1992) Awesome is a multi-section space-based game. The plot involves an attempt to get across a harsh galaxy despite not having...
A/X-101 SEGA CD (1994) In the year 2500, humanity is attacked by the alien Gurzons. The Earth Defense Force doesn't stand a chance, and...
Axelay SNES (1992) and Wii (2007) This planet was once a quiet, peaceful place to live, until...they came...An unknown alien race came to this planet and...
Axia DOS (1998) Move around in space in 360 degrees of freedom. Take on missions as a bounty hunter, blow up ships, asteriods,...
Axis Assassin Apple II (1983), Commodore 64 (1983) and Atari 8-bit (1983) A mix of Tempest and Asteroids, Axis Assassin has you piloting a space ship across a series of grids, blasting...
B-17: Fortress in the Sky Nintendo DS (2007) B-17: Fortress in the Sky has the player join the air war over Germany during World War II in the...
B-17 Gunner: Air War Over Germany Windows (2001) B-17 Gunner: Air War Over Germany is basically a rail shooter. The player takes the place of six machine gunners...
Baby Boomer NES (1989) One day while nobody was looking, Baby Boomer climbed out of his crib and headed into the woods. Little did...
Backfire Atari 2600 (2003) The year is 2947. Earth is being invaded by the evil K’caj clan from the Yenrut galaxy. You are Galactic...
Backlash Amiga (1988) and Atari ST (1987) Game-play consists of arcade style fast and frantic reflex action from the first-person perspective, much akin to Atari's coin-op Battlezone....