Game View Perspectives.. my thoughts..

Hi

It's often bugged me that while First and Third person are clearly defined what they are..


First Person: through the eyes of the controllable player.
Second Person: over the shoulder of the controllable player.
Third Person: The entire body of the controllable player is shown.
Fourth Person: hovering above at distance and at a 45 degree angle.
Birds Eye: Like old Zelda SuperNES games. greater than 45 degrees.
Isomorphic view: Like birds eye except with some lesser 3D missing. almost 100% 2D.
Paper Map view: top down, 2D.
Side Scrolling: Old NES games like Mario.

Here's some games (off the top of my head) so you get the idea I am trying to convey..

Games

First Person:
Bioshock series
Fallout 3 onwards (also Third Person)
Call of Duty series

Second Person:
Dead Space
Resident Evil 4
Metro series
Mass Effect series

Third Person:
GTA series
Just Cause series
DC Universe Online (also Fourth Person)
World of Warcraft (also Fourth Person)
Fallout 3 onwards (also First Person)

Fourth Person:
DC Universe Online (also Third Person)
World of Warcraft (also Third Person)

Birds Eye:
Old Zelda SuperNES
Old Final Fantasy SuperNES
Breath of Fire series
The Sims series
Bomberman series

Isomorphic:
Sim City
Roller-coaster Tycoon

Paper Map:
Pac-Man series

Side Scrolling:
Old Mario
Old Megaman
Old Sonic


Those are my thoughts.. it really annoyed me when reviews would refer to second person shooters as third person.. as I had coined it my head over 15 years ago as second person.

Dava