Third-Person Shooter

A 3D game type that has grown to prominence in recent years, especially on consoles. It combines the shooting elements of the First-Person Shooter with the jumping and climbing puzzles of a 3D Platformer and a simple melee fighting system from a brawler.

Third-Person Shooter games almost always incorporate an aim-assist feature, since aiming from a third-person camera is difficult. Most also have a first person view, which allows for precise shots and looking around at environment features that are otherwise hidden from the default camera In most cases, the player must stand still to use first person view, but newer titles allow the player to play like a FPS; indeed, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath requires the player to shoot from first person, only allowing melee attacks in the chase camera view.

The ability to Take Cover, and a reliance on it for victory, makes a game a member of the "cover shooter" sub-genre.

Melee attacks are more important in a third-person game, if only because close up fighting is easier in that perspective type, as are jumping and dodging. Add too much and it turns into a Beat'Em Up or Hack and Slash game.

This genre is especially prone to incorporating sequences of other gameplay types, such as driving and puzzle minigames.

The Stealth Based Game is a third person shooter with sneaking around in the dark elements and a stealth kill system (not to say that some FPS examples don't exist.)

Always Over the Shoulder is a common camera with these games.

Over-the-shoulder locked or free floating camera

 * Alan Wake
 * All Points Bulletin
 * American McGee's Alice
 * Army of Two
 * Armed and Dangerous
 * Asura's Wrath- plays with this, in that the main projectile button has the camera act like this.
 * Battlefield Heroes
 * Blood Rayne
 * Binary Domain
 * Blood Bros
 * Blood Stone (a James Bond game)
 * Border Break
 * Bullet Witch
 * Burning Rangers
 * Cabal
 * Cosmic Break (MMOTPS)
 * The Club
 * Dark Sector
 * Dark Void
 * Dead to Rights
 * Dead Space series
 * Dead Space
 * Dead Space 2
 * Death Jr
 * Destroy All Humans!
 * The Devil Inside
 * Devils Third
 * Drake of the 99 Dragons
 * Duke Nukem (Certain Games)
 * Dyna Marisa 3D
 * Earth Defense Force 2017
 * Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon
 * Eat Lead the Return of Matt Hazard
 * Everything or Nothing (a James Bond game)
 * Exteel
 * Fifty Cent Blood On the Sand
 * Foreign Legion Buckets of Blood
 * Freedom Fighters
 * Fur Fighters
 * Gears of War
 * Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex for the PS 2.
 * Giants Citizen Kabuto
 * Global Agenda
 * Gun
 * Gungage
 * Gun Valkyrie
 * Gunz
 * Grand Theft Auto, starting with GTA 3
 * Hitman
 * Homura Combat
 * Iron Storm
 * Jak and Daxter
 * Jak II Renegade
 * Jak 3 Wastelander
 * Jet Force Gemini
 * Kane and Lynch
 * Kill Team: see Warhammer 40000 Kill Team
 * Kid Icarus Uprising
 * Lead and Gold
 * Lost Planet
 * Max Payne
 * MDK 2
 * Megaman Legends
 * Mega Man X 7
 * Metal Arms: Glitch In The System
 * Mercenaries
 * Metroid Other M
 * Metroid Prime Series (On occasions)
 * Mind Jack
 * Monday Night Combat
 * Morph X
 * Nightmare Creatures
 * Nocturne
 * Oddworld Strangers Wrath
 * Psi Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy
 * PN 03
 * The Punisher
 * Ratchet and Clank
 * Ratchet & Clank
 * Ratchet and Clank Going Commando
 * Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet Deadlocked
 * Ratchet and Clank Size Matters
 * Secret Agent Clank
 * Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction
 * Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time
 * Red Dead Revolver
 * Red Dead Redemption
 * Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare
 * Red Faction : Guerrilla
 * Resident Evil
 * Resident Evil 4
 * Resident Evil 5
 * Resident Evil 6
 * Resident Evil Mercenaries 3D
 * Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City
 * S 4 League (taking a more sporting perspective)
 * Saints Row
 * Saints Row
 * Saints Row 2
 * Saints Row the Third
 * Second Sight
 * Shadows of the Damned
 * Shadow the Hedgehog (with some of the Platformer elements of its parent series.)
 * Sin and Punishment
 * SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals
 * Splinter Cell
 * Star Fox
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Stranglehold
 * Syphon Filter
 * Tomb Raider
 * Total Overdose
 * Transformers Prelude to Energon
 * Transformers War for Cybertron
 * True Crime Streets of LA
 * True Crime New York City
 * Uncharted
 * Urban Chaos
 * Vanquish
 * Velvet Assassin
 * Warhammer 40000 Kill Team
 * Warhammer 40000 Space Marine
 * Warhawk
 * WET
 * Wild Guns
 * Vortex
 * Zombie Panic in Wonderland

High/fixed camera (Top Down, 3/4, Isometric, etcâ€¦)

 * Crusader
 * The first two Grand Theft Auto games, and Chinatown
 * Postal
 * Skylanders Spyros Adventure
 * Alien Swarm

Primarily another genre, but with a significant TPS mode

 * Dark Forces Saga
 * Dirge of Cerberus
 * Fallout 3
 * Fallout New Vegas
 * Iron Brigade
 * Mass Effect
 * Mass Effect 1
 * Mass Effect 2
 * Mass Effect 3
 * Oni
 * Operation Flashpoint
 * ARMA
 * Parasite Eve 2
 * The 3rd Birthday
 * Prototype
 * Prototype 2
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Star Wars Battlefront
 * Star Hawk
 * Valkyria Chronicles
 * Valkyria Chronicles II
 * Valkyria Chronicles III