First-person shooter games simulates the playable character's perspective.
id Software's Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are widely considered to be the breakthrough games of the genre.

The modern FPS genre emerged at the point when home computers became sufficiently powerful to draw basic 3D graphics in real time.

Games of the genre include Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Blood, Unreal, Half-Life, Halo, Far Cry, F.E.A.R.

This perspective is used also on RPG (Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind, Might & Magic 8) and RTS (Command & Conquer Renegade, Savage The Battle for Newerth) games.