First-person shooter

Video game genre A player explores a non-combat area in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, with their equipped weapon visible in the bottom right of the first-person perspective A fast-paced battle against multiple enemies in Ultrakill Part of a series onShooter video games Subgenres Arena FPS MMOFPS Hero Looter TPS Tactical Extraction Other Light gun Shoot 'em up Bullet heaven Bullet hell Rail shooter Twin-stick Topics Advance and secure Bot Deathmatch Last man standing First-person shooter engine Hitscan Rocket jumping Social interaction Strafing Lists FPS Freeware FPS Light-gun MMOFPS TPS vte A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game focused on weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character. This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D and pseudo-3D graphics have proven fundamental to allow a reasonable level of immersion in the game world, and this type of game helped to push technology progressively further, challenging hardware developers worldwide to introduce nume