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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

  1. 2007
    Origin

    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)
  2. 2009

    Borderlands popularises the shooter with random loot.

    Looter shooter (Wikipedia)
  3. 2014

    Destiny adds elements of massively multiplayer games: raids, clans and a shared world.

    Looter shooter (Wikipedia)