What is a "first-person shooter" video game?

What is a "first-person shooter" video game?

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A first-person shooter comes in one of two flavours. They are either the kind where it is a literal first-person perspective, where you do not see yourself. In other words, you do not see your surrogate character; what you see are the hands usually holding the weapon and you're aiming and firing. The other type are often called pseudo first-person shooter or first-person shooters, and these are the kind where you can see your character moving along, but you you're still using a cursor to aim and that's what it's about. It's more or less a first person perspective; you're moving through an environment, you're finding different weapons, and you're killing a bunch of enemies that keep coming at you.