Rail shooter
The rail shooter is a sub-category of the shoot 'em up . The control options are limited to the control of a virtual weapon, since the player cannot exercise any direct control over the path of his game character. The field of vision of the player is also determined by the game. With the advent of motion-sensitive controllers for home game consoles, the genre got a breath of fresh air. Lightgun Shooter and Scrolling Shooter belong to this genre, while the general public mainly associates moving like on a rail with these games.
Traditional rail shooter
This term usually describes games in which the player only moves his character on a vertical, fixed line and has little control over the horizontal. The most important difference to a lightgun shooter is that in traditional rail shooters the player can only avoid bullets and other dangers from the screen perspective. This genre usually has fewer opponents than scrolling shooters, as evading and shooting is made more difficult by the limited perspective. The first 3D rail shooter was Silpheed .
Well-known rail shooter
- Star Wars (1983) - Atari / arcade game
- Space Harrier (1985)
- Star Wars: Rebel Assault (1993)
- Star Fox / Starwing (1993)
- Panzer Dragoon (1995)
- Titan Wars (1995)
- Rebel Assault 2 (1996)
- The House of the Dead (1996)
- Rez (2001)
- Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007)
- Dead 'n' Furious (2007)
- Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (2009)
- Child of Eden (2011)
Individual evidence
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