Third-person shooter games sometimes incorporate an aim-assist feature to compensate for the difficulty of aiming from a third-person camera.
It features shooter game elements, sometimes combining these with the jumping and climbing elements of puzzle-based games and brawlers. It is a 3D genre that grew to prominence during the 2000s, especially on game consoles. Third-person shooters are analogous to first-person shooters in terms of immersion, but simply displace the camera from being at the eyes of the character to a point slightly above and behind them in most cases. Third-person shooters are distinguished from other shooter games that may present the game from a third-person view such as shoot 'em ups, as the game is presented with the player's avatar as a primary focus of the camera's view. An illustration of a protagonist whom a player controls and a tracking camera just behind, slightly above, and slightly facing down towards that character.Ī third-person shooter is a game structured around shooting, and in which the player can see the avatar on-screen in a third-person view.
