First-person Shooter Games

According to Wikipedia, First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. The genre shares common traits with other shooter games, which in turn makes it fall under the heading action game. Since the genre’s inception, advanced 3D and pseudo-3D graphics have challenged hardware development, and multiplayer gaming has been integral.

The first-person shooter genre has been traced as far back as Maze War, development of which began in 1973, and 1974’s Spasim.

First-person shooters are a type of three-dimensional shooter game, featuring a first-person point of view with which the player sees the action through the eyes of the player character. They are unlike third-person shooters, in which the player can see (usually from behind) the character they are controlling. The primary design element is combat, mainly involving firearms.

These are the examples of First-person shooter games:
1. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
2. Overwatch
3. Crossfire
4. Soldier Front / Special Force
5. Call of Duty

When you play a game that is First-person shooter, for example Counter Strike: Global Offensive. You need to communicate with your team mates or friends. Killing the enemy team by shooting them with your guns. Before that, you need to buy guns with starting money/gold in game. Every round you earn gold especially when you win and you have kills in that round.

For Crossfire, you buy your own guns in the item shop in the lobby before you enter a room that you’ll play. There are so many gamemodes in Crossfire, like Free For All, Destruction Mode, Team Death Match, Zombie Mode, Zombie Apocalypse, and etc.

Playing FPS games is not that hard because you only need to communicate with your team mates and then execute the enemy team in a single round.
But it depends on the game mode that you will play like in Crossfire(CF). When you play Free For All, it means that you don’t have team mate and everybody is your enemy. In Destruction Mode it depends on the creator of the room that you’ll play with 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, and 8v8. Destruction mode is a type of game mode that the Blacklist(CF)/Terrorist(CS:GO) team will plant a C4 bomb in a certain sites(usually A and B) then the Global Risk(CF)/Counter Terrorist(CS:GO) will defuse it. So you always need to communicate with your team mates also reporting the situation and where the enemies are, and commanding your team mates where you will go or where they will go.

I play Crossfire and CS:GO, so I used these games as an examples for FPS Games. I’ll update this article as soon as I learn more from these games because I’m just familiar with it. Thank you for reading this article of mine and feel free to comment about it. 🙂