History Main / FirstPersonShooter

* ''Franchise/RedSteel''
** ''VideoGame/RedSteel''

** ''ScientistSlaughterhouse''

* ''VideoGame/RedSteel''

** ''MinervaMetastasis''

* ''AlphaPrime''

* ''{{SiN}}''

*** ''ProjectReality''

* ''VideoGame/BlakeStoneAliensOfGold''
* ''VideoGame/BlakeStonePlanetStrike''

* ''Area51FPS''

* ''VideoGame/Metro2033''

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Metro2033}} Metro 2033]]''

* ''VideoGame/BetOnSoldier'' (2005)

* ''FireWarrior''

* ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}''
** ''{{Counter-Strike Online}}''

** ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}''

Game designers went with the latter for a while, but as technology advanced, the genre has begun to shift towards having more interactive surroundings, setpieces, friendly {{NPC}}s, vehicle driving sections, physics-based puzzles, cover mechanics and RPGElements with games like ''SystemShock'', ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' or ''HalfLife''.

Game designers went with the latter for a while, but as technology advanced, the genre has begun to shift towards having more interactive surroundings, setpieces, friendly {{NPC}}s, vehicle driving sections, physics-based puzzles, cover mechanics and RPGElements with games like ''SystemShock'', ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]] or ''HalfLife''.

It actually had two potential sets of progenitors: there were games with a first-person, but not quite 3D because it was rendered in discrete steps, view of the surroundings, typically a dungeon (such as ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld''), and which had sensible and consistent worlds, NPC interaction, relatively few artificial restrictions, plotlines, and puzzles. And then there were games such as ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', and ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' which had full freedom of movement but used it solely to let you shoot everything and proceed to the end of the level.

Game designers went with the latter for a while, but as technology advanced, the genre has begun to shift towards having more interactive surroundings, setpieces, friendly NPCs, vehicle driving sections, physics-based puzzles, cover mechanics and RPGElements with games like ''SystemShock'', ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]] or ''VideoGame/HalfLife''.

This is a game genre that was first widely popularized by id Software ([[PsmithPsyndrome don't capitalize id]]) via ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 3D}}''. It actually had two potential sets of progenitors: there were ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'' and ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', which had sensible and consistent worlds, NPC interaction, relatively few artificial restrictions, plotlines, and puzzles, and then there were ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', and ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' which had you shooting everything and ending each level by hitting the "exit" button. Game designers went with the latter for a while, but in recent years the genre has begun to shift towards the former, if slowly, with games like ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLife''.

* ''WorldWarIIOnline''

-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' reviewing ''CallOfJuarez: Bound in Blood'', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''

** ''TheNamelessMod''

* ''VideoGame/ZenoClashII''

* ''VideoGame/{{SWAT}}'' - though only the third and fourth game in the series :

* ''VideoGame/ZombiU'' (Also SurvivalHorror)