Glossary
What is a first-person shooter?
A first-person shooter is a game where you see through your character's eyes and fight mainly with guns.
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How it works
The camera sits where the character's eyes would be, so you see the weapon in front of you and aim directly. Third-person shooters put the camera behind the character instead. Hero shooters, tactical shooters and many battle royales are first-person.
In the games we track
- Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant: round-based first-person shooters.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7: shares one battle pass with Warzone.
- Apex Legends and Overwatch: first-person hero shooters.
Sources
- Wikipedia – First-person shooter, published by en.wikipedia.org
- Wikidata – First-person shooter (Q185029), published by wikidata.org
More terms
- Action RPG
- Battle pass
- Battle royale
- Co-op
- Collectible card game
- Concurrent players
- Cosmetic item
- DLC
- Drop rate
- Early access
- ESRB rating
- Expansion
- Expected value
- Free-to-play
- Gacha game
- Hero shooter
- In-game purchases
- Loot box
- Looter shooter
- MMORPG
- MOBA
- Open world
- PEGI rating
- Pity
- Premium currency
- Real-time strategy
- Remaster
- Role-playing game
- Season
- Season pass
- Subscription
- Survival horror
- Tactical shooter
- USK rating