The best third-person shooter games

Third-person shooters (TPS) are action video games in which the player, visible on screen, shoots its way in a 3D environment (real 3D, false 3D, isometric, etc.) through a third-person perspective. Some of the most popular third-person shooters games are the Tomb Raider series, Space Harrier, Fade to Black.

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DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected Shiny Entertainment

Infiltrator 2

DOS1988 Chris Gray Enterprises

Fade to Black

DOS1995 Delphine software

Air Strike USA

DOS1990 Digital Integration

Released in 1990, Air Strike USA is what you'd get if Top Gun had a baby with a Saturday morning cartoon. You pilot a heavily armed jet through side-scrolling skies, shooting down everything that moves and quite a few things that ...

Virus

DOS1988

Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware

SWIV 3D

DOS1996 SCi Games

Space Harrier

DOS1989 Sega

Space Harrier is a 3rd-person view rail-shooter developed by Sega in 1985. Space Harrier was a hit in the arcades, and later it was converted for a number of platforms, including DOS (4 years later!). The sequels - Space Harrier 3...

Postal

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected Running With Scissors

Predator 2

DOS1991 Arc Developments

Adapting movies into games is always tricky, but Predator 2 gives it a shot with mixed results. You play as a cop cleaning up the mean streets while occasionally being stalked by the alien hunter. The action is chaotic, sometimes ...

Infiltrator

DOS1987 Chris Gray Enterprises

Amok

DOS1996 Scavenger

Ever wanted to pilot a walking death machine through a series of exploding industrial hellscapes while being shot at from every angle? Welcome to Amok. This 1996 mech-shooter is a glorious mess of 3D environments, big explosions, ...

Mach 3

DOS1987 Loriciels

Narco Police

DOS1990 Iron Byte

Narco Police is a tactical action game developed by Dinamic Software and released in 1990. It was available on various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum. The game is set in a dystopian near-future world...

Zeitgeist

Windows XP/98/951996 Taito

Zeitgeist — also known as Jupiter Strike in some markets — is a PlayStation-era space shooter that boldly says: "Let’s do Star Fox, but with less personality and more techno music." You’re piloting a sleek ...

Die Hard

DOS1989 Activision

Before “yippee-ki-yay” became gaming shorthand for chaos, Die Hard (1989) tried to capture the movie’s skyscraper shootout on DOS. You play as John McClane, trapped in Nakatomi Plaza with terrorists to outwit and...