Taxonomy

Modes[edit]

First-person
Over-the-shoulder {example}
Behind-the-back {example}
"Free"-camera {eg: Okami}
Fixed camera {{eg: Lego Star Wars: The Video Game}
Isometric 2D or Bird's eye view 2D {eg: Diablo}
Bird's eye view 3D {eg: Diablo 3}
Top-down (2D) {eg: Grand Theft Auto}
Top-down (3D)
2D sidescrolling {eg: Limbo}
2.5D sidescrolling {eg: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I}
3D sidescrolling {eg: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Inside, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II}
Text-based {eg: Zork}

Simplified into:

Notes:

Avoiding the terms 2D and 3D as nearly all modern games are built in 3D engines.

This should be used to designate the gameplay type, not refer to the literary genre (examples of literary genres would include fantasy or Sci-Fi)