FPS vs TPS

What do you prefer: a First-Person Shooter or a Third-Person Shooter?

First person for action and third person for stealth. The ability to look around the corner and such is pretty much mandatory in games like Hitman and especially Splinter Cell. But the gun battles are never going to be as satisfying in third person I think.

EDIT: But it also depends what kind of third person it is. Over the shoulder view is alright and sometimes better for shooters, but the third person adjustable camera à la Hitman is just kind of awkward.

Either, a good game is a good game.CellAnimation

This.

I prefer FPS's over TPS's. I like to be able to see everything in front of me, and being able to view the playing world without any interference from my character's head and body. I did enjoy both Daed Space and Resident Evil 5 and they were both third person.

Most of my favorite shooters are FPS though. (Half-Life series, Deus Ex, TF2, to name a few).

For shooters I only like first person. I can do some exceptions when the game is so good as Riddick, but realy I didn't like playing MGS games and even Uncharted 2 in third person. IMO third person kills the inmersion in shooters, and in mp kills the mp.

Either works for me. GeoW, ME2 and Uncharted 2 all work very well in 3rd person. Halo, CoD and Bioshock, are all excellent 1st person shooters. As long as the game is good it doesn't really matter.

Either works for me. GeoW, ME2 and Uncharted 2 all work very well in 3rd person. Halo, CoD and Bioshock, are all excellent 1st person shooters. As long as the game is good it doesn't really matter.

Tezcatlipoca666

+1

lets not forget Max Payne...great TPS

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i mostly play first person shooter but ive found unreal championship 2 and gunz a lot of fun and those are best played in 3rd person.

I like both if good enough, but I tend to like seeing my character more than anything, like Mass Effect and Gears of War, though FPS is fine too.

TPS cuz i played to many fps and got sick of them anyway it woulnd't be bad if developers made the game to give the chooise between fps or tps like hitman blood money

FPS all the way except with Max Payne.

The best TPSs do not hold a single friggin candle against the best FPSs.

FPS for me.

I honestly like third person better than first person but it all really depends on the game. Some games you can tell wouldn't fit having the point of view swapped.

I prefer FPS's mostly but Max Payne will always be one of my all time favorites!