Tactical Shooter vs. First Person

SAAER45 · 03-10-2006, 01:35 AM

What's the difference between a tactical shooter and first person shooter. I noticed Medal Of Honor was First Person Shooter and the game i just bought "Rainbow Six 3" is a Tactical Shooter. Does that mean Rainbow six is going to be completely different from Medal of Honor?

spacedude89 · 03-10-2006, 01:42 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_Shooter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_person_shooter

Yasu · 03-10-2006, 01:46 AM

First Person is just a perspective. Most shooter games are first person. Medal of Honor is a Run n' Gun game; a game where you pretty much just keep going through the stage while shooting at anything that moves. A tactical shooter type of game takes time and strategy, you can't just run through the level and shoot, you'll have to go slowly and take out your targets according to the situation.

Run n' Gun games: Halo, Halo 2, Medal of Honor, Battlefield 2, SW: Battlefront, SW: Battlefront II

Tactical Shooter: Ghost Recon, Counter Strike, Rainbow 6 series

Calibretto · 03-10-2006, 01:47 AM

Summed up in two or three words:

Tactical Shooter: Slow-paced, taking your time, stealthly.

First-Person Shooter: Fast-paced, usually taking no mercy, using up alot of ammo.

I'm a big of the Socom Series and Splinter Cell Series.

rahving · 03-13-2006, 11:02 AM

Although the original Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear are classified as tactical shooters, it only really applies to singleplayer and only if you want to employ it, like use a team, commands, etc. If you are good you can of course just run n' gun through any map. Rogue Spear multiplayer is one of if not THE fastest paced fps ever. It whoops CS 1.6, CS:S, Quake 2, Quake 3, and many more. If you don't think so, you haven't played it.

Edit: Or you're really bad.

03-10-2006, 01:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
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03-10-2006, 01:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
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03-10-2006, 01:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
Yasu Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: TX Age: 20 Posts: 1,199	First Person is just a perspective. Most shooter games are first person. Medal of Honor is a Run n' Gun game; a game where you pretty much just keep going through the stage while shooting at anything that moves. A tactical shooter type of game takes time and strategy, you can't just run through the level and shoot, you'll have to go slowly and take out your targets according to the situation. Run n' Gun games: Halo, Halo 2, Medal of Honor, Battlefield 2, SW: Battlefront, SW: Battlefront II Tactical Shooter: Ghost Recon, Counter Strike, Rainbow 6 series __________________ CPU: Intel P4 3.0 HT Mobo: ASUS P5P800 RAM: 2x512 PC3200 VC: ATI Radeon X850PRO HDD: 160GB Seagate SATA PSU: 500watt Ultra X-connect

03-10-2006, 01:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
Calibretto VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Indiana, USA Age: 19 Posts: 2,931	Summed up in two or three words: Tactical Shooter: Slow-paced, taking your time, stealthly. First-Person Shooter: Fast-paced, usually taking no mercy, using up alot of ammo. I'm a big of the Socom Series and Splinter Cell Series. __________________ - Gigabyte P35-S3G - Q6600 @ 2.40GHz \| Cooler Master GeminII - 4GB OCZ Platinum @ 800MHz - XFX 9800GT \| Zalman VF1000 Cooler - Maxtor 120GB SATA \| Seagate 500GB FreeAgent Go 2.5" External - Antec Three Hundred Case \| Antec NeoPower 380W PSU - Acer 22" Widescreen LCD (1680x1050) - Best 3DMark06 Score: 15109 Want to write tech articles for Tech Olive? PM me

03-13-2006, 11:02 AM	#5 (permalink)
rahving Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 195	Although the original Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear are classified as tactical shooters, it only really applies to singleplayer and only if you want to employ it, like use a team, commands, etc. If you are good you can of course just run n' gun through any map. Rogue Spear multiplayer is one of if not THE fastest paced fps ever. It whoops CS 1.6, CS:S, Quake 2, Quake 3, and many more. If you don't think so, you haven't played it. Edit: Or you're really bad. __________________ My system. cpu - AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Orleans mobo - AM2 Foxconn memory - 1 GB PQI ddr2 533 hard drive - WD 80GB Serial Ata floppy - NEC black cd/dvd - Lite-On 16X DVD video card - Geforce 7600GT case - Antec SLK1650B

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