Camping in a first person shooter

In a first person shooter a player sees through the eyes of his avatar. In a third person shooter a player sees through a camera over the top of his avatar.

In some games, you play from over the top of the character (3rd Person), and then when you sight down your weapon zoom into the characters eyes (1st Person). This can also reverse as in Halo where you spend the majority of your time in first person until you enter a vehicle and gain a third person perspective.

First and third person also have some variations:

• In some first person views, you can see your avatar's arms and feet when you look around, while others do not.

• Two main variations in third person views exist. The position of the camera; over head, over the top, over the shoulder, etc. and the cameras mobility; stuck in position, or rotatable around the character.

It makes aiming a bit harder as more things are squished into the same screen size, but you get the advantage of being able to see more. Generally you want to be able to see more so long as it doesn't have too much of an impact on your aiming/movement. It is up to you to decide what the best balance is for you. In Unreal Tournament 2004 I know some people played with the FOV higher than I did, but anything over 100 degrees for me became harder to aim and more confusing to sense what directions things were in, so I stuck with that.