


Hero shooters strongly encourage teamwork between players on a team, guiding players to select effective combinations of hero characters and coordinate the use of hero abilities during a match.

Hero shooters are either first- or third-person multiplayer shooters that emphasize pre-designed "hero" characters, with each possessing distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them. Some shooters incorporate both perspectives. In third-person shooters, the protagonist's body can be seen fully the environment is rendered from a distance. First-person shooters are played within the protagonist's perspective they often include a heads-up display showing key information such as the current health of the protagonist. Shooters, aside from subgenre classifications, can be further classified by their perspective of play. However, some shooters, such as Splatoon, have non-violent objectives. Most shooters involve violent gameplay lethal weaponry is used to damage opponents. In shooter games (or simply shooters), players use ranged weapons to participate in the action, which takes place at a distance.

This picture shows gameplay of a freely licensed version of Doom, a highly influential first-person shooter.
