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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Virus SEGA Saturn (1997) It is the 22nd century. Human beings have long reached outer space and traveled to other planets. But they could...
Virus: The Game Windows (1997) Interesting attempt at a game where you battle within your own computer's directory structure and files. Traverse your directory tree...
Vital Light Amiga (1994) and Amiga CD32 (1995) "Vital Light" is one of those innovative games which only appear once a while. In this particular one, you have...
VitalSign Windows (2006) VitalSign is an online-only shooter with four playing modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Rounded base which is...
Vivisector: Beast Within Windows (2005) A team of navy seals investigating a series of strange reports from Soreo, a desolate volcanic island somewhere in the...
Vogelstein 2D Android (2011) and J2ME (2011) Vogelstein 2D is an almost top-down shooter, shown through a bird's-eye view and set during World War II. The game...
Void Browser (1997) Void is basically an Asteroids variant. The player controls a space ship exploring different sectors of an asteroid belt. Before...
Voidrunner MSX (1987), ZX Spectrum (1987) and Commodore 64 (1987) The final conflict in the droid wars is up ahead in Jeff Minter's Voidrunner, the second sequel to Gridrunner. After...
Void War Windows (2004) Void War is a single-player 3D, First-Person Space Dogfight action game for Windows PCs. The player may fly any of...
Volguard MSX (1985), PC-88 (1984) and FM-7 (1984) Volguard is a traditional shoot-'em-up from the days before R-Type or Nemesis. You fly a plane over a parallax-scrolling landscape,...
Volguard II NES (1985) and Wii (2008) Volguard II is a side-scrolling shooter that is a follow-up to Volguard. Players have to shoot their way through 25...
Volleyfire Game Boy (1990) Volleyfire is a shooter with simple gameplay mechanics: Two space ships (in later levels up to three against the player)...
Vortex SNES (1994) Vortex was one of the few games designed to use the SNES Super FX 1 chip, a custom-made graphics accelerator...
Vostochniy Front: Zolotoe izdanie Windows (2010) The Vostochniy Front. Zolotoe izdanie compilation includes: ÜberSoldier Crimes of War
Voxeliens Windows (2012) Voxeliens, the debut game from Volumes of Fun, is a retro style 3D arcade game where you defend Earth from...
Voxelstein 3D Windows (2008) Voxelstein 3D is a prototype first-person shooter developed using the voxel engine by Ken Silverman. As the title suggests, both...
Voyager Amiga (1989) and Atari ST (1989) The Voyager II space probe found us some impressive images of outer space. However, it was later found by the...
Voyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship Apple II (1981), TRS-80 CoCo (1983), Commodore PET/CBM (1982), Atari 8-bit (1982), TRS-80 (1982), PC-88 (1984), FM-7 (1983) and DOS (1982) Voyager is a first-person action game that challenges the player to explore the levels of an alien spacecraft's maze. The...
VR Stalker 3DO (1994) Sometime in the near future, the United States has come under attack by a mysterious threat. After New York and...
Vultures Dragon 32/64 (1983) and Commodore 64 (1983) Vultures is an original (?) shoot'em'up with a slight Galaga flavour. Above your spaceship hangs a nest of space-vultures. One...
V-Wing DOS (1997) V-Wing is one of the numerous AUTS and Turboraketti clones, a caveflier, which would have been forgotten long ago without...
Wacky Races Amiga (1991), Atari ST (1991), Commodore 64 (1992), ZX Spectrum (1992) and Amstrad CPC (1992) You take on the role of Dastardly and Mutley from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series in this action title with superficial...
Walker Amiga (1993) Walker is classic 2D shooter with the side-scrolling from the right to the left. Player takes control of gigantic robot...
Walking with Beasts: Operation Salvage Windows (2001) Walking With Beasts: Operation Salvage is a single player edutainment game based on two of the BBC's popular 'Walking With...
Walkover Windows (2003) Walkover is a Splatter-Strategy-Action-Game. You can fight side by side with your friends against hordes of Aliens.Get reinforcements by collecting...