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First Person Shooter

By Niko Silvester, About.com

Definition: A First Person Shooter (FPS) is a genre of video game in which the player sees the game from a first-person point of view (as if they were the game character), and which has a focus on shooting (or otherwise killing or disabling) enemies.
Pronunciation: furst pur-suhn shoo-tur
Also Known As: FPS, fps, shooter, shooting game, run-and-gun
Alternate Spellings: first-person shooter
Examples: Black and Doom are First Person Shooters.

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