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.
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). For this reason any games with terrain or crates of various heights you have to jump over are sometimes a chore to get through when using the first-person perspective. Unlike real life though, first-person perspective suffers from a lack of peripheral vision and character orientation. Quite simply it is the view you see with your own eyes in real life first-person perspective has the advantage of giving the player better accuracy in a game that requires shooting like first-person shooters, often made even easier to control with the use of a targeting reticle.
Third person is better suited for navigating laddersįirst-person perspective video games are video games that orient their visual reference to the vantage point of the player.
