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 |
Windows (2005) Absolute Blue is a side-scrolling casual shooting game set in a sci-fi setting. The player is given the control of... |
Windows (2000) Absolute Terror is a single player space shooter.Earth's colonies are revolting. What is worse, their forces are winning because they've... |
DOS (1995) and Macintosh (1995) In the 24th century, on the frozen Jovian moon of Europa, earth has established a colony to extract water from... |
Browser (1998) Having no connection whatsoever with the identically-titled game by Domark, this Absolute Zero is a shoot 'em up in which... |
Browser (2008) Abstracta is a flash-based, semi-abstract, meditative shooter. The gameplay consists in controlling a blue blob with the mouse, collecting and... |
Linux (1995), DOS (1995), Macintosh (1996), Amiga (1998), iPhone (2009) and Acorn 32-bit (1998) It is the unimaginably distant year 2009. You are Nick Vrenna, falsely locked inside a high security prison. The genetic... |
Windows (1998) The Abyss: Incident at Europa is a science fiction game which builds upon events that took place in James Cameron's... |
DOS (1998) An unofficial add-on for Quake (like Shrak for Quake), Abyss of Pandemonium cheekily positions itself as the next part of... |
Windows (2009) AC-130: Operation Devastation is a first person shooting game where the player is the gunner of a Lockheed AC-130 gunship.... |
SNES (1993) This is a very basic, linear "shoot'em'up" game in which the robot of your choice, rigged with a variety of... |
PlayStation 3 (2011) Far in the future, an Earth destroyed by war is abandoned by humanity. In order to revive the planet a... |
CD-i (1997) Accelerator is a 2D top down action racing game. The cars in the game feature weapons so while racing the... |
Game Boy Advance (2005) The Air Strike Force (A.S.F.) is the most advanced aircraft squadron on the planet. Not held by any nation, they... |
PlayStation 3 (2011) and Xbox 360 (2011) Unlike many previous Ace Combat titles, Assault Horizon does not set the story in the fictional world, but on a... |
Windows (2013) Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition is the PC version of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. Besides the main game,... |
PlayStation 3 (2011) and Xbox 360 (2011) This limited edition contains:
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Soundtrack disc
Downloadable F4-E Phantom II aircraft
Signed notebook |
Atari ST (1988) Ace Invaders is a Space Invaders clone written in 68000 assembler.
You control your ship with the joystick and your... |
Game Boy Advance (2002) This GBA version of Ace Lightning is based on the BBC TV show of the same name which is a... |
Windows (2012) Ace of Spades is a voxel based shooter, with fully destroyable environment similar to Fortress Wars. Since the game supports... |
Windows (2008) and Xbox 360 (2008) Aces of the Galaxy is a third-person, futuristic space shooter where the player needs to take on the entire Skurgian... |
DOS (1995) and Palm OS (2005) A game where the object is to shoot down enemy paratroopers as they drop from planes. The player takes control... |
Windows (1997) ACM 1918 is an arcade shooter that plays at the end of World War I. You can choose between four... |
iPhone (2012) Zombocalypse has come, and as one of the last survivors, the president of the USA, the player must try to... |
SNES (1992) Years ago humanity abandoned the over-polluted Earth to make a new home on Mars. Now, without warning, a mechanical moon... |
Windows (2006) Action Cyborg is a short (the game was released with only three levels) 2D platform/action game that takes the player... |
