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First person may refer to:

• First-person narrative, a literary device
• First-person interpretation, a museum technique
• First Person (TV show), an interview-based television series created by Errol Morris
• First person (video games), a perspective used in gaming
• Grammatical person, a linguistic reference to a participant in an event, specifically through the use of "I" and "we"

Related

• Second person
• Third person

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Third person is better suited for navigating ladders

First person view or the more common term, first person, is in reference to the vantage point of the player during a video game. Quite simply it is the view you see with your own eyes in real life. First person view has the advantage of giving the player better accuracy in a game that requires shooting like first person shooters. Made even easier to control with the use of a reticle. Unlike real life though, first person view suffers from a lack of peripheral vision and character orientation. For this reason any games with terrain or crates of various heights you have to jump over are a chore to get through in first person games.

To get around this some games have a function within the game to switch from first person to third person at the gamers choice (an example of this is Metroid Prime's Morph Ball & Metroid Prime 2's Screw Attack). Some games even do this switch seamlessly by itself whenever the player needs a better view of his/her surroundings like in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay.

See also

• Third person view
• Top down view
• HUD
• First person shooter

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