First-person shooter

Game genre concept

A shooter from first-person perspective with fairly free movement (not locked to a grid, rails, or autoscrolling) and view direction. As such, despite the name, simply being from 1st person perspective and being a shooter is not enough to qualify.

1962

games

platforms

Alternate names: FPS
Name variations: 1st person shooter

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

PS2 2001-12-15

AGA 1998

LIN 2000

WIN 2007-07

Commandos: Strike Force

XBOX 2006-04-04

Androman on the Moon

VCS 1984

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

NGGE 2005-03-22

Quake III: Arena

LIN 1999-12-07

Wolfenstein 3D

SNES 1993

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

PS3 2007-11-05

Unreal

WIN 1998-05-22

Activision, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft has published most of these games

Parent group

Shooter

Child group

Doom

compare with these groups

Platforms

Linux		443
Windows		418
X360		101
MS-DOS		95
PS2		86
Xbox		80
PS3		76
Mac OS X		66
Wii		52
PS4		39
Mac OS Classic		35
PS		34
BSD		34
GameCube		26
Xbox One		24
iOS		23
Saturn		19
Arcade		18
BeOS		18
GBA		16
N64		15
PSP		13
Wii U		13
Nintendo DS		12
Amiga AGA		12
3DO		12
OS/2		11
3DS		11
Pandora		10
Dreamcast		9

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