History Main / FirstPersonShooter

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, [[VehicularCombat vehicle driving sections]], [[WreakingHavok physics-based puzzles]], [[TakeCover cover mechanics]] and RPGElements with games like ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' or ''VideoGame/HalfLife''.

* There were games such as ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' (1992), ''VideoGame/GunBuster'' (1992), ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' (1993), ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' (1996), and ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' (1996), which had full freedom of movement but used it solely to let you shoot everything and proceed to the end of the level. These games have origins in flight {{Simulation Game}}s, dating as far back as Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''[[https://segaretro.org/Jet_Rocket Jet Rocket]]'' (1970), the UrExample of the genre.

* ''VideoGame/{{Police 911}}''

** ''VideoGame/BrutalWolfenstein3D''

** ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheWoolBall''

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVII''

* There were games such as ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' (1992), ''VideoGame/GunBuster'' (1992), ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' (1993), and ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' (1996), which had full freedom of movement but used it solely to let you shoot everything and proceed to the end of the level. These games have origins in flight {{Simulation Game}}s, dating as far back as Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''[[https://segaretro.org/Jet_Rocket Jet Rocket]]'' (1970), the UrExample of the genre.

* ''[[VideoGame/FobiaStDinfnaHotel Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel]]'' (combined with SurvivalHorror)

* ''[[VideoGame/IllWill2023 illWill]]'' - do not confuse this with ''VideoGame/IllWill''

* ''[[VideoGame/MenInBlackTheCrashdown Men in Black: The Crashdown]]''

* ''VideoGame/TheHistoryChannel'' -- yes, the same TV network just made a collection of {{Edutainment Game}}s that teaches about the Battle for the Pacific and American Civil War while allowing you to shoot Confederate soldiers in the face

* ''[[VideoGame/SeventyFiveFiftyFourGloriousMemoriesRevived 7554: Glorious Memories Revived]]''

* ''VideoGame/{{Eggwife}}'', one of the ''weirdest'' (and fun) Psychedelic-themed FPS ever made

* ''[[VideoGame/GloomAmiga Gloom (Amiga)]]'' - and ''Gloom 3'', no there isn't a ''Gloom 2''. Not to be confused with a [[Videogame/{{Gloom}} 2017 game with a similar name]]

* ''VideoGame/PropogationParadiseHotel''

[[caption-width-right:350:It's like you're right there, killing Nazis.]]