What are the most influential third-person shooters?

What are the most influential third-person shooters?

Bill Kunkel (Editor-in-Chief, "Tips & Tricks" Magazine) gives expert video advice on: What are the most influential first-person shooters?; What is one of the best strategy video games available?; What are some of the most influential role-playing video games? and more...

I would say probably the Lara Croft Games have been the most significant third-person shooters, but there have been so many; Prince of Persia, for example. Again, it's to do with the whole idea of creating a character, because if you create a character you can merchandise that character. If you're the character, no matter what they call you, you're not really a character; you're you, doing what you would do. In fact you don't get many first person shooters; I mention Lost Planet. Lost Planet is actually a third person shooter because technically you see a character on the screen running around. So again, it gives you that sense of almost like being God, who is controlling and manipulating the fates of these characters. There's that little removal; there's that little bit of distance between you just being the character and you controlling the character.