Terminator Salvation: The Arcade Game - a true successor to Terminator 2: The Arcade Game.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (which is the spiritual predecessor of Revolution X).

Operation Thunder Hurricane - Rail Chase, in the air.

The Typing of the Dead is a typing game that swaps out the light gun with a keyboard, turns up the ridiculousness, but keeps the zombies and gore.

X-Men: The Official Game: The Iceman sections are third-person rail shooters.

Wild Guns, a Space Western-theme shooter where you play as bounty hunters shooting outlaws.

Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, with a first-person mode when using the sniper rifle.

Fan opinion on the decision not to use a free roaming system is.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Uses a 3rd Person Rail shooter for its space combat system.Tin Star, though it has some First-Person sequences.For a very brief moment at the end of Dirge of Cerberus.Red Faction: Guerrilla has Rail Shooter missions popping rockets off at EDF assets from the back of Jenkins' game-controlled trike-car.The climactic end-boss battle in Devil May Cry.Some minigames in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.Thunder Blade and Super Thunder Blade (alternate with vertical Shoot 'Em Up levels).Star Fox 64, though averted this for some boss fights and a few levels.Space Run is a Tower Defense style game, except you're on a ship that is barreling forward through Asteroid Thickets and waves of Space Pirates, building defenses to blow them up, so it has a rail shooter feel.Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, a follow-up with a shoot 'em up-esque play-style.Sin and Punishment, a rail shooter with light platforming elements.Say No! More, an endless rail shooter where the only thing the player has to fire is the word 'No!'.Kid Icarus: Uprising (half this and normal Third-Person Shooter).G.I.Joe note Which is essentially an evolution of the gameplay of the above.Asura's Wrath switches to this during Random points in the game, certain bosses included.The Wonderful 101 has multiple rail shooter segments.Star Wars: The Arcade Game (and at least one level in the Lego prequel games).Space Gun, which included the very unusual feature of a backpedal, controlled by, wait for it, a 'back' pedal.Pokémon Snap, though it and its sequel have a camera and not a gun you're shooting.Takamaru's Ninja Castle in Nintendo Land.Dead Man's Hand is an FPS for most parts, but two levels (a horseback chase and a Minecart Madness part) is a rail-shooter.

Creature Shock have segments that plays out like these the rest of the game are either a FPS or a spaceship Shoot 'Em Up.Child of Eden, the Spiritual Successor to Rez.Battleshark - you're a submarine blowing up stuff from a first-person perspective.While new examples do appear from time to time, especially in the Indie Game markets, they are often criticized as (in the words of Yahtzee Croshaw) 'a backward step down Anachronism Avenue', especially when presented as an AAA game.Ĭompare/Contrast No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom (where you control your own movement but are given only one route to follow). They were never particularly common on home consoles or computers, and the genre fell out of favor with the rise of more flexible First-Person Shooter games such as Doom and Quake. Rail Shooters were a very popular arcade format in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mainly because they were able to use the arcade systems' powerful graphics to great effect some even used Roto Scoping or Motion Capture to make characters which were more detailed and life-like than was feasible on home systems of the day. In rare cases, you may be able to Shoot the Bullet. In a large number of these cases, you cannot dodge enemy shots by simply moving them off of your screen, so you must shoot immediate threats before they have a chance to fire. However, a few rail shooters allow free movement within a 2D rectangle parallel with the screen, while still railroading the player forward 'into the screen' along the depth axis. Most often you can't control your movement at all, unlike in shoot-em-ups where you are allowed to freely move within the confines of the screen. The primary difference is that while shoot-em-ups have two-dimensional gameplay, rail shooters have you shooting things in three dimensions. Often considered a sibling genre to the Shoot 'Em Up, as both genres set you on a fixed path and involve shooting things. Openness if there is any player choice at all as to where to go, it will only be in the form of branching paths initiated by specific 'fork in the road' situations. Will score very low on the Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. A variant of either first person or third person shooter in which the majority of the player's movements are ' on rails' the computer controls most of your perspective and you control the shots.

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