first-person shooter

video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective
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first-person shooter

Summary

first-person shooter is a video game genre[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of video_game_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,155 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • first-person shooter's video is recorded as Freedoom 0,7 - Gameplay of Native Linux Games.webm[3].
  • first-person shooter's image is recorded as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.- Call of Pripyat.jpg[4].
  • first-person shooter's instance of is recorded as video game genre[5].
  • first-person view is named after first-person shooter[6].
  • first-person shooter's GND ID is recorded as 7709631-9[7].
  • first-person shooter's subclass of is recorded as shooter game[8].
  • first-person shooter's Commons category is recorded as First-person shooters[9].
  • +1990-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of first-person shooter[10].
  • first-person shooter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/033th[11].
  • first-person shooter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:First-person shooters[12].
  • first-person shooter's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1405117[13].
  • first-person shooter's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/first-person-shooter-game[14].
  • first-person shooter's different from is recorded as frames per second[15].
  • first-person shooter's uses is recorded as first-person view[16].
  • first-person shooter's has list is recorded as list of first-person shooters[17].
  • first-person shooter's Quora topic ID is recorded as First-Person-Shooters[18].
  • first-person shooter's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19558999[19].
  • first-person shooter's subreddit is recorded as FPS[20].
  • first-person shooter's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as first_person_shooter[21].
  • first-person shooter's Moegirlpedia ID is recorded as 第一人称射击游戏[22].
  • first-person shooter's PCGamingWiki ID is recorded as Glossary:FPS[23].
  • first-person shooter's OLAC video game genre vocabulary ID is recorded as 1031[24].
  • first-person shooter's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/FirstPersonShooter[25].
  • first-person shooter's Golden ID is recorded as First-person_shooter-RGKRV3[26].
  • first-person shooter's UVL group ID is recorded as firstpersonshooter[27].

Why It Matters

first-person shooter ranks in the top 5% of video_game_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,155 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . golden.com. Retrieved . golden.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Trollface 2006ALT · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:First-person shooters
    Subclass of
    Named after first-person view
    Twitch tag id a69f7ffb-ddda-4c05-8d7d-f0b24975a2c3
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P460]]: [[Q115105241]]"
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