Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004691452 |
| ISBN10: | 9004691456 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 104 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 206 g |
| Language: | English |
| 664 |
Category:
First-Person Shooter Videogames
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 20 December 2023
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Short description:
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. It comments on the defining peculiarities of the genre such as its use of the first-person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic narrative, and multiplayer gaming.
Long description:
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. After providing an overview of the history of the first-person shooter videogame genre, Alberto Oya comments on the various defining peculiarities of this genre, namely the first-person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic in-game narrative or background story, and multiplayer gaming. Oya also argues that educators can use first-person shooter videogames to encourage their students to reflect on historical and philosophical issues.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Preface
Abstract
Keywords
1 Introduction
2 History of the First-Person Shooter Videogame Genre
3 ?First-Person? in First-Person Shooter Videogames
4 ?Shooting? in First-Person Shooter Videogames
5 The Heroic Narrative in First-Person Shooter Videogames
6 Multiplayer Gaming in First-Person Shooter Videogames
7 How to Take Pedagogical Advantage of a First-Person Shooter Videogame
Conclusion
Index
Preface
Abstract
Keywords
1 Introduction
2 History of the First-Person Shooter Videogame Genre
3 ?First-Person? in First-Person Shooter Videogames
4 ?Shooting? in First-Person Shooter Videogames
5 The Heroic Narrative in First-Person Shooter Videogames
6 Multiplayer Gaming in First-Person Shooter Videogames
7 How to Take Pedagogical Advantage of a First-Person Shooter Videogame
Conclusion
Index