The first-person shooter genre has been traced back to Wolfenstein 3D (1992), which has been credited with creating the basic archetype upon which subsequent titles were based. Multiplayer gaming has been an integral part of the experience, and became even more prominent with the diffusion of internet connectivity in recent years.
Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D and pseudo-3D graphics have proven fundamental to allow a reasonable level of immersion in the game world, and this type of games helped pushing technology progressively further, challenging hardware developers worldwide to introduce numerous innovations in the field of graphics processing units.
This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. A first-person shooter ( FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.
