First-Person Shooter Videogames

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first—person shooter videogame genre. After providing an overview of the history of the first—person shooter videogame genre, Alberto Oya comments on the various defining peculiarities of this genre, namely the first—person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic in—game narrative or background story, and multiplayer gaming. Oya also argues that educators can use first—person shooter videogames to encoura...