- By Alan Biron
- Published 10/15/2008
- Culture and Society
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Rating:
Unrated

Shooting games are a subgenre of action game because shooting game make up the majority of action games, it is a fairly wide subgenre. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun or some other long-range weapon.