What, that you’re the one being shot?

I don’t know about shooters, but there’s second person driving. https://youtu.be/mC8QoRa8y_Q

That’s just called the American education system

Not necessarily a shooter, but Out of Sight was a cool take on the Second Person genre, and unusually eerie because of that very mechanic.

There’s that Shredder fight in TMNT Turtles in Time where you’re throwing foot soldiers at the screen. Also that first boss in Battletoads.

Xcom?

Cmdr: Jenkins shoot that thinman standing in front of you with your shotgun.
Jenkins: I missed the shot.
Cmdr: what? How? You had a 98% chance to hit.

I’ll do you one better. What about fourth person shooters?

SUPERHOT!

Screencheaters on steam. It’s 4 player split screen but you’re supposed to watch other players screen while playing because you’re invisible or something like tha

I don’t know, but I think it would go about as well as this.

I don’t know if any whole games, but a lot of games have boss battles or segments that are in 2nd person. Where the perspective is from the target, and you can see the character you are controlling through their eyes.

Off the top of my head, this boss fight from Ratchet and Clank 3 comes to mind.

It’s hard to do this for extended periods for a few reasons. Part of why this is reduced to boss fights so that if you have sections with dozens of enemies, whose perspective do you take? What happens when that enemy dies, or if that enemy needs to suck under cover or go down a stairwell or look down at their weapon to reload?

Even for boss fights, it only works if the boss’s behavior is controlled pretty strictly, like in that Ratchet and Clank example.

You could kind of make an argument about sections where you view your character through some sort of diagetic device, like a security camera. Technically you could count Lakitu from several Mario games in that sense.

Talking about this is giving me ideas though, especially for stealth games. Something that lets you see through the enemy’s eyes and make sure that you do NOT appear in their line of site could be really neat. Maybe.

Second person is when you play a healer.

Yes.

https://youtu.be/fDiEFsBY-ko?t=1m23s this part is the only second person shooting section I can think of. You’re shooting the machine gun but controlling Woods and Bowman shooting rocket launchers so does that count?

I follow some game dev and programming YouTube channels. I remember seeing someone make one and it being weird (and basically unplayable IMO), but I can’t recall which channel it was