Mass Effect was a mediocre third person shooter at best across all three games.
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My other sadness is that the game is a first-person shooter rather than a third-person shooter.
Sony's "SOCOM 4" is the latest in a third-person shooter series about Navy SEAL operatives, which heavily promotes its online-play component.
The third-person shooter revolves around the efforts of disgraced soldier Marcus Fenix to help combat a race of aliens on their home planet of Sera.
Paramount was able to bring in the bulk of the cast for the third-person shooter game, which followed an original story that takes place between the two films.
You get to not only see the same characters sticking around for endless chunks of continuous gameplay, you get to see a sci-fi RPG gradually morph into a third-person shooter with RPG elements.
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In an effort to expand that world, the creators of "Defiance" are banking on the combined power of an online third-person shooter video game and a weekly science fiction television series to keep fans hooked and actively involved in the franchise.
Its first and third-person shooter franchise, Call of Duty, continues to blast its way to success: The Modern Warfare 3 sequel has been one of the top-selling games since its November launch and its online service, CoD: Elite has attracted more than 12 million registered users.
Unlike the first-person perspective of Black Ops 2, Spec Ops: The Line is a third-person cover shooter.
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Whereas Souls is a testament to brilliant level design filled with challenges and rewards that transcend the combat itself, Gears is a pretty straightforward third-person-shooter.
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Take the recently released Xbox Live Arcade third-person cover shooter, Hybrid.
In fact, for a good portion of the game it felt like a third-person cover-shooter version of Call of Duty.
It may not be much more than an orthodox third-person action-adventure shooter, but if the story is compelling enough that might not matter.
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The third installment in the highly acclaimed Duke Nukem series, Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter game set in Los Angeles "sometime in the early 21stcentury" in which players use increasingly sophisticated weapons in order to defeat aliens and mutated humans attempting to take over the world.
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