
Shooter
Role-playing shooter
You combine real-time shooting with role-playing progression: your character levels up and improves skills, and you earn weapons and gear with random stats that let you take on harder challenges.
Also known as: looter shooter, RPG shooter, shlooter
This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.
History
- 2007Origin
Hellgate: London (2007) was one of the first to blend role-playing and first-person shooting around loot, though Borderlands (2009) set the mould.
Looter shooter (Wikipedia) - 2009
Borderlands popularises the shooter with random loot.
Looter shooter (Wikipedia) - 2014
Destiny adds elements of massively multiplayer games: raids, clans and a shared world.
Looter shooter (Wikipedia)