Shooter Game

A Shooter Game is an Action Game that involve projectile weapons.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Physical Shooter Game (such as paintball) to being a Shooter Video Game.
• Example(s):
  • paintball.
  • Destiny 2.
  • Call of Duty - Black Ops III.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Sports Video Game.
• See: Player Character, Avatar (Computing), Gun, Ammunition, Shooting.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_game Retrieved:2017-5-31.
  • Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon. A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition. Most commonly, the purpose of a shooter game is to shoot opponents and proceed through missions without the player character being killed or dying. A shooting game is a genre of video game where the player has limited spatial control of his or her character, and the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using long-range weaponry.

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