First-Person Shooter

""The game is based mainly around shooting and is viewed from the first person perspective, and someone should really come up with a name for that.""

- Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviewing Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Zero Punctuation

The First Person Shooter is a popular form of Action Game. Its basic style of play is exactly what the name says: the perspective is first-person, through the eyes of the player character, and the action revolves around shooting.

This is a game genre that was first widely popularized by id Software (don't capitalize id) via Wolfenstein 3D. It actually had two potential sets of progenitors: there were Ultima Underworld and System Shock, which had sensible and consistent worlds, NPC interaction, relatively few artificial restrictions, plotlines, and puzzles, and then there were Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D which had you shooting everything and ending each level by hitting the "exit" button. Game designers went with the latter for a while, but in recent years the genre has begun to shift towards the former, if slowly, with games like F.E.A.R. and Half Life.

See Also: Standard FPS Guns and Fackler Scale of FPS Realism, Some Third Person Shooters have similar gameplay.

Contrast Fixed Camera (in terms of perspective).


 * Ace of Spades
 * Aliens Colonial Marines
 * Alien vs. Predator
 * Alliance of Valiant Arms
 * Alpha Prime
 * Americas Army
 * Area 51 FPS
 * Ballistic Weapons (mod for Unreal Tournament 2004)
 * The Battlefield series
 * Project Reality
 * Battlefield Bad Company
 * Battlefield 3
 * Battlefield Play 4 Free
 * Battlezone 1980 (1980) - a very early example
 * Battlezone 1998 (1998) - incorporates Real Time Strategy elements
 * Bio Shock 1
 * Bio Shock 2
 * Bio Shock Infinite
 * Black
 * Blood
 * Bloody Good Time
 * Boiling Point Road to Hell
 * Borderlands
 * Borderlands 2
 * Brink
 * Brothers in Arms
 * Bulletstorm
 * Call of Duty
 * Modern Warfare
 * Call of Duty Black Ops
 * Call of Duty Black Ops 2
 * Nazi Zombies
 * Call of Juarez (slightly Action Adventure)
 * Carnivores
 * Catacomb Fantasy Trilogy
 * Chex Quest
 * Clive Barkers Jericho
 * Clive Barkers Undying
 * Combat Arms
 * Command and Conquer Renegade
 * Condemned
 * The Conduit
 * Conduit 2
 * Crysis
 * Cube
 * Daikatana
 * Darkest of Days
 * Dark Watch
 * Descent
 * Dark Forces Saga
 * The Darkness
 * Deus Ex
 * 2027
 * The Nameless Mod
 * Zodiac
 * Deus Ex Invisible War
 * Deus Ex Human Revolution
 * Doom
 * Action Doom 2 Urban Brawl
 * Batman Doom
 * Ghouls vs. Humans
 * Mega Man 8 Bit Deathmatch
 * Duke Nukem 3D
 * Duke Nukem Forever
 * Naferia's Reign: Invasion of the Dark Mistress
 * Duty Calls
 * Ethnic Cleansing
 * Exhumed
 * EYE Divine Cybermancy
 * Face Raiders
 * Far Cry
 * Fallout 3
 * Fallout New Vegas
 * Final Combat
 * Fire Warrior
 * First Encounter Assault Recon
 * Frontlines Fuel of War
 * Geist
 * Ghost Recon
 * Golden Eye 1997
 * Golden Eye Wii
 * Golden Eye Rogue Agent
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 * Gravity Bone
 * Gunman Chronicles
 * Hacx
 * Half-Life series
 * Half-Life 1
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 * Afraid of Monsters
 * Cryof Fear
 * Counter-Strike
 * Cthulhu an Unspeakable Mod
 * Dystopia
 * Heart of Evil
 * The Hidden
 * Minerva Metastasis
 * They Hunger
 * Garrys Mod
 * Trouble in Terrorist Town
 * Neo Tokyo
 * 1187
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 * Halo
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 * Iron Storm
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 * Jumping Flash
 * Killing Floor
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 * Land of the Dead Road To Fiddlers Green
 * Left 4 Dead
 * Left 4 Dead 2
 * Legendary the Box
 * Marathon
 * MAG (ties in with MMOFPS)
 * Maze War
 * Medal of Honor
 * Metro 2033
 * Metroid Prime (Also falls under Action Adventure)
 * Nitemare 3D
 * No One Lives Forever
 * Nuclear Dawn
 * Oddworld Strangers Wrath
 * Open Arena
 * Operation Body Count
 * Operation Flashpoint
 * ARMA
 * OperationFlashpoint (Codemasters)
 * Outlaws
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 * Pathways Into Darkness
 * PAYDAY the Heist
 * Perfect Dark
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 * Portal
 * The Precursors
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 * Quake
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 * Quake III Arena
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 * Pirates Vikings and Knights
 * Radix Beyond the Void
 * Rage
 * Rainbow Six (Also squad-based Simulation Games)
 * Red Faction (the first two)
 * Redline Gang Warfare 2066
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 * Republic Commando
 * Resistance
 * Rise of the Triad
 * Sanctum
 * Section 8
 * Serious Sam
 * Shadow Warrior
 * Shattered Horizon
 * Shellshock 2
 * The Ship
 * Shogo Mobile Armor Division
 * Sin
 * Singularity
 * Soldier of Fortune
 * Space Cruiser
 * Spectre
 * S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
 * Starship 1
 * Starsiege Tribes
 * Tribes Vengeance
 * Star Trek Elite Force
 * Strife
 * SWAT 4
 * System Shock
 * Team Fortress Classic
 * Team Fortress 2
 * Thief - First Person Sneaker.
 * Timeshift
 * Time Splitters
 * Trespasser
 * Tron 2.0
 * Turok
 * Unreal series:
 * Unreal I
 * Unreal II the Awakening
 * Unreal Tournament
 * Unreal Tournament 2004
 * Unreal Tournament III
 * Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict (half hybrid with Third Person Shooter)


 * Urban Chaos Riot Response
 * Urban Terror
 * Warsow
 * Water Warfare
 * Will Rock
 * Wolfenstein 3D
 * Return to Castle Wolfenstein
 * Wolfenstein (2009 game)
 * Wolf Team
 * World War II Online
 * XIII
 * Zeno Clash