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Hero Shooter Games

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Team shooter built around a roster of distinct characters whose fixed weapons, roles, and abilities create coordinated compositions.

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Assign Hero Shooter when team shooter built around a roster of distinct characters whose fixed weapons, roles, and abilities create coordinated compositions. This must be a sustained, defining part of play rather than an isolated mode or sequence.

Leave out when

Exclude class-based shooters without a defining fixed-character roster and composition-dependent abilities.