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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game focused on weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character. This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. Since the genre's inception…

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First-person shooter

Nodes112
Edges111
Triples93
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017857
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First-person shooter

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related to history · 17
First-person shooter → Atari ST, Atari's, Battlezone, Early, Futurewar, In, Its, Maze War, Maze Wars, MIDI, MIDI Maze, NASA, PLATO, Software's Hovertank, Spasim, The, Wayout
related to Free-to-play · 12
First-person shooter → Apex Legends, Enemy Territory, Eternal Crusade, Halo Infinite Multiplayer, League, Legends, PlanetSide, Some, Team Fortress, There, Warhammer, Wolfenstein
related to Multiplayer · 10
First-person shooter → First-person, Games, Large, Massively, Multiplayer, Other, PlanetSide, Some, The, These
related to Combat and power-ups · 7
First-person shooter → Also, Depending, First-person, In, Some, Tactical, These
related to Level design · 7
First-person shooter → First-person, Games, In, Other, Others, The, World War II
related to Definition · 6
First-person shooter → First, First-person, Light-gun, The, This, Virtua Cop
related to Game design · 6
First-person shooter → Because, First-person, It, Like, Often, This
related to Research · 3
First-person shooter → Compared, In, Leiden University
see also · 1
First-person shooter → First-person

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