shoot'em-up

First-person shoot'em-up games such as Call of Duty, where players can either take on game-generated enemies or each other, are wildly popular among many soldiers in Afghanistan.

Battle-based gaming a hit in war zone 2011

First-person shoot'em-up games such as Call of Duty, where players can either take on game-generated enemies or each other, are wildly popular among many soldiers in Afghanistan.

Battle-based gaming a hit in war zone 2011

Now videogamers can play the role of Ho Chi Minh's communist forces as they rout French colonists in a blood-spattered shoot'em-up.

Ho Chi Minh: The Videogame James Hookway 2012

If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history.

Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression 2009

Normally, we assume that shoot'em-up games need a good story to help you "care about the gameplay."

Games Without Frontiers: Bad Story, Great Game -- How Mediocrity Gooses 'Gears of War 2' 2009

If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history.

Games Without Frontiers: Bleak 'Fallout 3' Dazzles With Great Depression 2009

All manufacturers report an increasing number of adult and young female players, and all are following Nintendo's lead in extending their offerings beyond the shoot'em-up fare that once dominated video games.

Nintendo And Beyond 2008

"It's now a shoot'em-up game for adolescents, not at all conducive to our play style," says Carolyn Hocke, a web technician for Saint Michael's Hospital in Wisconsin, whose character A'thena was mayor of an in-game city on Tatooine and owner of a bustling shopping mall.

Star Wars Fans Flee Net Galaxy 2005

They went out to shoot at the sides of trucks after playing "Grand Theft Auto III," the bestselling PlayStation 2 shoot'em-up that has become synonymous with the controversy over violent video games.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005

But the way Butler plays it, this is a shoot'em-up blood bath rather than an inspiring movie.

USATODAY.com News 2011