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Hero shooter

A team shooter where you pick a hero from a fixed roster, each with unique weapons and abilities, and win by combining characters well and coordinating their powers with your team.

Also known as: class-based shooter

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 2007
    Origin

    Team Fortress 2 (Valve, 2007) turned each class into a character with its own identity and created the genre's framework; it came from class-based shooters such as Team Fortress Classic.

    Hero shooter (Wikipedia)
  2. 2016

    Overwatch and Battleborn bring the genre mass popularity.

    Hero shooter (Wikipedia)