Definition of FPS (First Person Shooter)

As the various categories of a sport, video games have also been creating, throughout all these years of existence, a series of categories in which we can fit each of the creations that come out on the market.

One of these categories, which is very popular today, is that of the First Person Shooter (FPS), a type of game in which we put ourselves in the shoes of the protagonist to see the action in the first person.

In an FPS we only see the hands of our character and the weapon that he carries

And we control it well by keyboard or through joystick or control of the game console or whatever device.

The themes of the FPS can be very diverse; There are those that simulate real historical conflicts, with a great preeminence of the Second World War between the themes (something that, in fact, also happens with the literature and the cinematography about him theme), or imaginary scenarios such as wars in space in a dystopian future.

FPS games can add touches from other genres, such as

strategy (weave tactics to be able to attack the enemy where they are not expected or infiltrate between their lines), or solving puzzles and enigmas.

What they do tend to have all these video games is a network game mode, so that we can play against other amateur players of the same title, either all against all, faced in two sides, or by equipment.

The FPS phenomenon started strongly in the early 1990s

With titles such as Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, which were later followed by other mythical titles such as Quake, Duke Nukem 3D or Half-Life.

It is not that before there were no video games of this type, but technical advances in hardware and its greater power, have allowed us to release titles with more spectacular and real graphics, with which the sensation immersion in the proposed environments, it is much more realistic.

The future of FPS passes, without a doubt, through virtual reality. Because what is more immersive than getting not only in the skin of the protagonist, but in the same stage where the action takes place?

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Themes in FPS (First Person Shooter)