Watch: This staged 'real life first person shooter' video is a visual treat for all gamers

One of the main reasons why first person shooters will never get old in the world of gaming is that they provide the gamer with the point of view of the character they are controlling, which makes the gaming experience a lot more personal, immersive, and well, cool. [caption id=“attachment_2402400” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Screenshot from YouTube video.[/caption] Some of the perfect examples of this benefit of FPS games is the sheer shock and fear all of us felt when a headcrab suddenly came jumping at the screen out of nowhere in Half Life or when the main antagonist and extremely scary figure of the little girl Alma suddenly appeared out of darkness in the survival horror FPS F.E.A.R. Creating the same atmosphere in a staged performance of an FPS game, RealmPictures created a “live action first person shooter” and “invited unsuspecting people online to take control”. The actor, playing the protagonist of the ‘game’, talked to the ‘user’ through online video chat, thus giving the user the feeling of control (like in a game). He moved and interacted with the props and characters around him only after the user told him to do so. As the user could see everything from the point of view of the actor, he or she could appropriately give him directions on what to do next. Even though the users, in the beginning, were smiling and admiring the creativity of the whole idea, the entire performance has been staged so well that most of the users actually became tense and scared as the protagonist made his way through the ‘maze’ of fake zombies and some very well-placed and beautifully designed weapons, all of which looked very real. With the character using the classic crowbar, shotguns, grenades and even a hilarious can of ‘painkillers’ (just like in Max Payne) in the video and even allowing the user to make the character perform actions by typing commands, the entire video re-created the magic of FPS gaming perfectly. Moreover, all of this was shot in a garden.