Some games before it have used it as well, its one of the views on Shadow of the Empire for the N64..true RE4 popularized it, but it wasn't the first to use it.texasgoldrush
Shadow of the Empire had an over-the-head view like every other third-person shooter at the time. The now common over-the-shoulder view, where the camera zooms in over the character's shoulder from where the player can aim, was indeed first introduced by Resident Evil 4.
Yes, some games in Japan used that perspective, however, it is a Western innovation dating back to the 70's. And the modern first person shooter is definitely western, which came with Wolfenstien 3d.texasgoldrush
Not true. Sega was producing first-person electronic shooting games since the 1960s (such as Periscope in 1966 and Missile in 1969), which evolved into first-person lightgun shooter arcade games in the early 1970s (such as Sega's Killer Shark and Sea Devil in 1972, and Nintendo's Wild Gunman in 1974). As for the third-person perspective, the first game to use that was Sega's racing game Moto-Cross (also known as Fonz) in 1976, and the earliest shooter to use that perspective was Shigeru Miyamoto's debut game Radar Scope, a 1979 Space Invaders clone with a third-person view.As for the modern first-person shooter sty1e popularized by Wolfenstein 3D, the 1988 Japanese FPS game Star Cruiser by Arsys Software not only had a similar sty1e but also used fully 3D polygonal graphics nearly a decade before Quake. The same year Wolfenstein 3D released, 1992, there was another FPS game by Taito, Gun Buster, that featured co-operative and team deathmatch modes (two years before Doom) while allowing the players to aim with a lightgun and move the character with a joystick (similar to the keyboard-mouse setup of Quake).
As for 3D third-person shooters, WiBArm by Arsys Software was a 1986 shooter that that used 3D polygonal graphics for third-person exploration, though the boss battles were in 2D. The earliest fully 3D third-person shooter was Namco's Cyber Sled in 1993. Much of the TPS genre in general since then was mostly shaped by Japanese shooters, as the TPS genre was like an alternative to the FPS games that Japanese audiences still dislike. It is only in recent years that TPS games have become more popular in the West, due to RE4's new over-the-shoulder perspective as well as the cover system (which originated from Japanese shooters like Rolling Thunder, Devastators, Bonanza Bros, Time Crisis, MGS, WinBack, MGS2, and Kill Switch) that was popularized by Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas and Uncharted.
It is.....Japan's current constitution was written mostly by the US as well.
The Meiji era transfered power from the Shogun to the Emporer (who during tha Meiji period was far from a figurehead) with a very limited democracy, post war reforms turned a militaristic authoritarian (and outright barbaric) regime into a pacifist liberal democracy...and power was transfered from the elites to the common people. The fact that women could now vote is a huge cultural change for Japan, in which, women lacked any sort of power before.texasgoldrush
You're forgetting that most Western nations at the time were hardly the "pacifist liberal democracy" loving nations you think they were. Western nations at the time had many issues of their own, including imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, human rights abuses, war crimes, etc. They obviously weren't quite as barbaric as Germany or Japan during WWII, but that only made them the lesser of two evils, if anything. It was with the rise of various anti-colonialist movements (like Gandhi) and civil rights movements (like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X) after World War II that Western nations as well as Japan became the modern liberal democracies that we now recognize. These "cultural changes" were pretty much occuring all over the world during the post-WWII era.
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