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  2. First-person (video games) - Wikipedia

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    First-person can be used as sole perspective in games belonging of almost any genre; first-person party-based RPGs and first-person maze games helped define the format throughout the 1980s, while first-person shooters (FPS) are a popular genre emerging in the 1990s in which the graphical perspective is an integral component of the gameplay.

  3. Field of view in video games - Wikipedia

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    In first person video games, the field of view or field of vision (abbreviated FOV) is the extent of the observable game world that is seen on the display at any given moment. It is typically measured as an angle , although whether this angle is the horizontal, vertical, or diagonal component of the field of view varies from game to game.

  4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a fantasy action role-playing game, playable from either a first or third-person perspective.The player may freely roam over the land of Skyrim, an open world environment based on Scandinavia consisting of wilderness expanses, dungeons, caves, cities, towns, fortresses, and villages. [1]

  5. List of game engines - Wikipedia

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    Mostly used to develop third-person pre-rendered graphic adventure games, one of the most popular for developing amateur adventure games: Aleph One: C++: 1999 Lua, Marathon markup language Yes 2.5D Windows, Linux, macOS: Aleph One (Marathon remake) GPL-3.0-or-later: FPS engine Amazon Lumberyard: C++: 2015 Lua: Yes 3D PlayStation 4, Xbox One ...

  6. Creation Engine - Wikipedia

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    After using the Gamebryo engine to create The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Fallout 3, Bethesda decided that Gamebryo's capabilities were becoming too outdated and began work on the Creation Engine for their next game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, by forking the codebase used for Fallout 3.

  7. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    The inclusion of stealth as a mechanic in a game does not necessarily make it a Stealth Game. For example, Skyrim has an entire perk tree dedicated to "Sneaking" despite that most of the dungeons in the game can be completed using a hack-and-slash strategy. The first stealth game was Manbiki Shounen (Shoplifting Boy), published in November 1979.

  8. Isometric video game graphics - Wikipedia

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    Secondly, compared to a first-or third-person video game, they allow you to more easily field and control a large number of units, such as a full party of characters in a computer role-playing game, or an army of minions in a real-time strategy game. [1]

  9. Point-of-view shot - Wikipedia

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    Enter the Void (2009) by Gaspar Noé is shot from the first-person viewpoint, although in an unusual way, since most of the movie involves an out-of-body experience. The action film Hardcore Henry (2015) consists entirely of POV shots, presenting events from the perspective of the title character, in the style of a first-person shooter video game.