cover shooter
Duck-and-fire genre
A cover shooter is a video game, typically a third-person shooter, where gameplay centers on taking cover behind objects to avoid enemy fire.
Players duck behind walls, crates, or barriers, then emerge to shoot before retreating again.
The mechanic became genre-defining with games like *Gears of War*: I've been playing cover shooters all weekend.
- third-personGrammatical category for others
- Gears of WarLocust horde shooter
- reloadFill with ammunition again
- flankSide of body
- suppressing fireGunfire restricting enemy movement
blind fire · headshot · crouch · peek · tactical · squad · grenades · duck · sprint · run and gun · aiming · crosshairs · killstreak · assault rifle · shotgun · enemies · combat · warfare
cover shooterrun-and-gun
Mobile aggressive attack style
arcade shooter · Quake · Titanfall · bullet hell · shoot 'em up
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