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 |
PlayStation 3 (2011) Drake's Deception is the third main game in the Uncharted series. A couple of years have passed for Nathan Drake,... |
PlayStation 3 (2011) The Explorer Edition comes with a Wooden Travel Case that can hold up to 19 PS3 games and includes:
Uncharted... |
PlayStation 3 (2007) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is the story of Nathan Drake, a modern-day treasure hunter who believes himself to be a descendant... |
PS Vita (2011) Golden Abyss is the fourth game in the Uncharted series and the first one for a handheld device. The story... |
Genesis (1991), MSX (1989) and Sharp X68000 (1990) Undead Line is a top-down arcade shooter with scrolling screens, like Commando and other games. The player controls a character... |
Windows (2002) Under Ash is a 3d shooter set in Israeli/Arab disputed territories (Judea and Samaria, also known as the "West Bank")... |
Dreamcast (2000) The events of this game take place in the near future. You are cast in the role of a young... |
Dreamcast (2006) Under Defeat is a top-down vertical shooter originally released for Naomi arcade machines, and later ported to Dreamcast as one... |
Windows (2006) The sequel to Under Ash puts you once again in the shoes of a young Palestinian who joins the Intifada... |
Xbox 360 (2007) The aquatic alien race Elect escapes from its oppressors and loads all of their people into a giant space ship... |
PlayStation 2 (2004) Underworld: The Eternal War is based on the movie of the same name. The storyline revolves around the eternal war... |
PlayStation 3 (2012) The Unfinished Swan is an adventure game based around exploration. The story is told as a fairy tale. The player... |
Game Boy (1992) and Genesis (1992) Universal Soldier is the licensed video game based on the 1992 movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. You control Van Damme's... |
Amiga (1993) and DOS (1995) Universal Warrior (or The Machines, as is the official title of the PC version) is a top-down maze shooter in... |
MSX (2005) In 2038 AD, the United States of America, Europe and East-Asia joined their forces in the development of space technology.... |
Windows (1998) and Macintosh (1999) The prison transport ship Vortex Rikers was on its way to a penal moon colony when an unplanned course change... |
Xbox (2002) Unreal Championship is a first-person-shooter game, that has similarities to the PC game Unreal Tournament.UC can be played as a... |
Xbox (2005) Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict is the sequel to the Xbox Live game Unreal Championship, and was designed from... |
Windows (2008) Unreal Deal Pack is a Steam compilation of these games:
Unreal: Gold
Unreal II: The Awakening
Unreal Tournament (Game of... |
Windows (1999) This compilation contains:
Unreal
Unreal Mission Pack 1: Return to Na Pali (add-on) |
Windows (2004) and Linux (2004) This compilation contains:
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal II: The Awakening |
Linux (2003) and Windows (2003) An expansion made to introduce multiplayer to Unreal II, XMP is not the standard "shoot everything that moves" FPS. XMP... |
Windows (2003) and Xbox (2004) Some years after the Strider Wars, humanity has resumed its expansion into space. On the rough frontier, it falls to... |
Windows (2003) This re-release includes Unreal II: The Awakening and the multiplayer expansion eXpanded MultiPlayer (XMP). |
Windows (1998) Unreality: Too Unreal For You is an unofficial add-on pack for Unreal. The package installs directly into the Unreal directory... |
