Research Into FPS (First Person Shooter)

Game Genres

There are many different game genres in first person shooter games e.g. MMO “Massive Multiplayer Online” or RP “Role Playing” games, different fps game genres can consist of, war time, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, combat, futuristic combat and so much more. Examples of fps game genres are e.g. sci-fi being destiny, crysis, horror being left 4 dead, last of us, fantasy being skyrim, combat being call of duty games and there’s so much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FPS Combat Call Of Duty Ghosts

In this fps, the storyline starts of set in San Diego with a cinematic of Elias telling his sons David “HESH” and Logan Walker the legend of these mysterious 15 soldiers that killed hundreds of soldiers which earned these mysterious soldiers the title of ghosts. After Elias had finished telling the story an earthquake happens only to have been an ODIN satellite to be tearing up San Diego. 15 minutes before the earthquake at the ODIN satellite with Spc Baker and Kyra Mosley going into the ODIN station, they are attacked by Federation infiltrators. Spc Baker and Kyra make it to the fuel lines of the other ODIN unit and Baker shoots it, sacrificing himself and Kyra in order to stop more ODIN strikes on the world. Going back into the present David and Logan walker get told by their father to travel from where they currently are to the next house so they can get in the truck, as they travel to this next house, Logan gets injured by an explosion of a gasoline truck and then Elias and David help Logan get onto the back of the truck. Elias drives the truck away from San Diego as David And Logan are sat in the back of the truck watching the destruction of San Diego. The reasons the creators of “Call Of Duty Ghosts” did this was because it creates a storyline that attracts the user to what they would like to see in a first person shooter game.

 

FPS Sci-Fi Destiny

Civilisation have tripled in there life span, the main purpose of the storyline is that there are these guardians that are all that stand between the dark forces that seek to destroy civilisation and those who take refuge within the city. It’s the guardians main duty to restore the ashes of the defeat and to one re-ignite the flame of human civilisation and to be the light that shines through the darkness, if they fail it could be the ending of the human race as we know it. The storyline is 700 years ahead of time currently at the moment. There are these strange alien creatures that sneak in from the edge of the universe to try and destroy the last city the world has, the job of the character you play is to protect the last city the world has.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FPS Horror Left For Dead

The creators of “Left For Dead” start the game of in “Pennsylvania” where it suffers from an out break known as “Green Flu” which is a highly contagious disease “Virus” that causes extreme aggression, mutation of the body cells and loss of higher brain functions. The game starts of two weeks are the first infection with only four survivors which are playable characters on single player or multiplayer, the four names of these characters are known as Bill, Zoey, Louis and Francis. The creators of “Left For Dead” thought quite smart here, they gave each of these characters a back ground story, that make each individual character a bit better than the rest in their own fields, Bill is a vietnam veteran, Zoey is a college student, Louis is an ICT analyst and Francis is an outlaw biker. You start of in a city of Fairfield only for them to find out that the “Virus” was causing more mutations than the original “Zombies”, these 4 survivors are alerted of a helicopter flying in to “Mercy Hospital Roof” the only way for these 4 survivors to get towards this helicopter to be rescued are for them to fight there way through waves of “Mutated Zombies” using guns, fists and combat weapons. When they arrive at the helicopter they are to find out that the pilot of the helicopter is also infected so Zoey is forced to kill the pilot, as Zoey kills the pilot the helicopter crash lands in an industrial district outside of the city. This is only the first mission, this mission straight away attracts the gamer into the game by getting the gamers hopes up that they have managed to fight through louds of waves and then escapes away only to realise they have been dumped in all of these zombies again. Just by looking the picture on the right hand side picture I can tell by the game that it is quite a dark place so you have to use torches to see your way and that you have a primary and secondary weapon, your secondary weapon is always a pistol and your primary weapon can be changed to anything you that is possible to pick up, the creators of this game put all four of these characters health bars at the bottom of the HUD “Heads Up Display” because this helps to identify when you need to help your team mates out or to give them a health pack to restore their health, on the picture you can tell that something has knocked the door clean of its hinges instead of breaking it, from this picture you can also tell that Francis is a hands on man that looks like he has had plenty of experience with a gun and tattoos on his arms.

 

Character Emotions, Characteristics And Stereotypes

In First Person Shooter “FPS” games, the character emotions consist of aggression, revenge, happiness or more. The characteristics consist of the main enemy somewhere having a scar on their face and being rather skinny or extremely muscly, and the main friendly character would mainly look heroic, strong heart, short beard, muscly. The stereotypes consist of the main characters being a male character, the character has always consisted in a first person shooter of the characters being male gender, the main characters are normally very muscly, stealthy and fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emotional Themes (Vengeance, Fear, Anger, Heroism And Valour Etc)

In First Person Shooter “FPS” game emotional themes consist of heroism, valour, vengeance, fear, anger, revenge, justice, action and so much more, the reasons these are used in first person shooter games are to make the user feel as if they was in the game so the game makes the user feel like they are interacting with the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinematics, Trigger Events And Character Customisation

In First Person Shooter “FPS” game cinematics are used a lot e.g. to create the beginning scene of a game or to describe something in better detail after you defeat a boss. A trigger event is what happens after you e.g. accept a mission/quest and then all of a sudden a cinematic will occur. Character customisation in a first person shooter is very important as this is what makes the game more appealing to the user as it allows them to have better upgrades than everyone else and allows to do e.g. more damage or to look better etc.

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