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Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using the weapons given to the player. Usually these weapons are firearms or some other long-range weapons, and can be used in combination with other tools such as grenades for indirect offense, armor for additional defense, or accessories such as telescopic sights to modify the behavior of the weapons. A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition, armor or health, or upgrades which augment the player character's weapons.
Shooter games test the player's spatial awareness, reflexes, and speed in both isolated single player or networked multiplayer environments.[citation needed] Shooter games encompass many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing on the actions of the avatar engaging in combat with a weapon against both code-driven NPC enemies or other avatars controlled by other players.
resource found in many shooter games is ammunition, armor or health, or upgrades which augment the player character's weapons. Shooter games test the player's...
A hero shooter is a kind of shootergame which emphasizes "hero" characters that have distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them....
practice of shooting. Whereas "shootergame" is a genre name, "first-person shooter" and "third-person shooter" are common subgenres of the shooter genre....
Black Rock Shooter named Rock-chan and her babysitter De-chan. Black Rock Shooter: The Game takes place in the year 2051, where Black Rock Shooter, also known...
Bubble Shooter is a clone of the Puzzle Bobble arcade game that was released by Taito in 1994. The Bubble Shootergame and IP are owned by Ilyon Dynamics...
Active Shooter is a first-person shooter video game developed by Russian video game developer Anton Makarevskiy and publisher Ata Berdyev, working under...
hero shooters, a sub-genre of shooter games, happened in 2016 when several developers released or announced their hero shooter multiplayer online game. Hero...
first-person shooter and third-person shooter. Some cross-genre types also exist that fall until multiple top-level genres such as action-adventure game. A video...
Looter shooter (also called loot shooter) is a subgenre of action role-playing games that incorporates shooter gameplay and procedurally generated weapons...
the shooter video game genre Shoot 'em up, a subgenre of the shooter video game genre Third-person shooter (TPS), a subgenre of the shooter video game genre...
which is a top-down shooter, Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter. A core gameplay feature carried over from the first game is the use of 'stratagems'...
Jacksonville Landing shooting, also known as the Jacksonville shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred at a video game tournament for the video game Madden NFL...
(arcade), a shootergame produced by Midway Manufacturing Company for arcades and released in October 1991. Terminator 2 (Game Boy video game), an action-adventure...
the game or its medium of play, but by the way the player interacts with the game. For example; a first-person shooter is still a first-person shooter regardless...
Helldivers is a top-down shootergame developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation...
Rivals is an upcoming hero shooter video game developed and published by NetEase Games in collaboration with Marvel Games. The game is set to release for Microsoft...
Rail shooter (also known as on-rails shooter) is a subgenre of shoot 'em up video game. Beginning with arcade games such as the 1985 Space Harrier, the...
multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game in development by Battlestate Games for Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the fictional Norvinsk...
FINALS, is a free-to-play first-person shooter, developed and published by Nexon subsidiary Embark Studios. The game focuses on team-based matches on maps...
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