In our cognition, the first person is "me", the second person is "you", and the third person is "he".
The games we played were also first-person shooters or third-person shooters. In fact, this is also very easy to explain.
First-person shooters are played from the perspective of "I", and the computer screen display is equivalent to what our eyes see.
It is to shoot the game from the player's subjective point of view, that is to say, the entire screen is the player's line of sight, and this kind of game is very much.
For example: "Call of Duty", "Victory Day", "Halo", "Rainbow Six", "Landscrawler", "Borderlands", "Doom", "Far Cry", "Half-Life", "Battlefield"....
Third-person shooters are played from the perspective of "his", in other words, the perspective of God, and we watch the protagonist play the game. We control the protagonist's actions, and we can see the protagonist's entire character or half-cut body, not only the protagonist's vision, but also the picture outside his point of view.
Like Resident Evil, Mass Effect, Metal Slug, Contra, Gears of War, Lost Planet, PUBG, Lone Gunner, Cell Splinter....
What if there were really a second-person shooter?
This perspective is "you", that is, the enemy's perspective to observe you. This seems impossible in the game!
If you have to force an explanation, it is the enemy's perspective. So how do you do it, unless you choose two characters, one character looks at the other character in the first person, and then you manipulate the other character... I feel like I've gone around it myself!
This is obviously not likely to be achieved. The player observes from the viewpoint of the object that the game character interacts with?
In fact, it only takes one sentence to summarize: the second person controls yourself through the perspective of the enemy or NPC you are facing
This difficulty is probably not the average one!
Perhaps in the eyes of the enemy soldiers, the protagonists are like this!
In fact, we are playing all kinds of 3D games, fighting games and FPS, and after death, we will have a death replay perspective, which is actually a second-person perspective. But this effect can only be seen, can not be controlled.
I don't know if you have ever played a game called "Il 2"?
In this game, the player can switch to the target perspective, which should be the most far-fetched second-person perspective. But even with perspective, you will find that you can't do anything, and even for a long time you will be lost, without even a sense of direction.
In addition, this kind of picture often appears in God of War 3, When Kratos explodes Poseidon, and in Asura's Wrath. Show the protagonist being beaten from the enemy's point of view, and then the protagonist can control the counterattack.
But have to admit that second-person shooters really exist.
A game called "Ninja Frog" on the red and white machine platform used to have this perspective. Using the boss's first-person shooter against the protagonist, the perspective we see here is the second-person perspective.
Previously, a good friend of mine, "Nuclear Comic Tourist", once shared a more bizarre game with me, a standalone small page game called "Second Person Shooter Zato". I was stunned when I first played it, and this is really a second-person shooter!
SPS (Second Person Shooter) in the true sense of the word. Of course, this game has a certain experimental nature and spoof elements in it.
The game's method of operation is more bizarre: the player's character will appear at the beginning and can be manipulated to shoot at various places. But our main perspective comes from the enemy. That is to say, if you want to accurately destroy the enemy, you need to look at the player's angle according to the enemy's side, and then adjust it in time to shoot
The direction of the protagonist's shooting is all directed at the screen, and when the enemy is exploded, it feels like the bullet is coming at the player himself.
Obviously, this kind of second-person shooting game will never be adopted in the future.
The experience is too bad, even if it is a new high, even if it is fun, it is estimated that it will be difficult to impress the players!
If it is really made into a highly confrontational competitive PVP game, it is not a game played by people, but a game played by people, and any number of powerful players will be messed up!