First person or third person - what's your pleasure? Some games fair better in third person and wouldn't work any other way such as the aforementioned Assassin's Creed as you need to see the next hand hold or quickly scout for those leaps of faith. Plus you get to see that gorgeous fluid animation on the main character and his fabulous flowing duds. Other games however go for full immersion and use first person - games like Doom, the Far Cry series and of course every generic FPS shooter out there. The game genre and content therefore dictates the required POV and there's not much more to it than that. Wait a minute... It's not that one is better than the other, it's when the developers choose to switch mid-game for no logical reason at all. Assassin's Creed, an example I gave two seconds ago for being better in third person, is guilty of this - specifically in the franchise-saving AC IV. When you leave the Animus you're suddenly thrown from third person perspective into first person at the Abstergo facility. Why? To separate the reality from the memory? No other AC did this when you left the Animus. There's nothing to gain from this POV change. It just happens. But hey, let's not pile on AC, let's call out Splinter Cell: Blacklist, a game steeped in third person history yet for one brief inexplicable moment the game switches to first person. Skill sets such as takedowns are executed the same but apparently Briggs, the character you briefly play in first person perspective, is wearing an Oculous Rift whereas poor old third person Sam Fisher has to make do with a nearby floating Lakitu.
A Welsh semi-retired television producer and actor known for low end work that astonishingly people actually watched and even garnered some awards. Originally residing in the electrically-challenged Amish areas of Pennsylvania he has written a few books (Hollywood Pants and Hollywood Horrible Hints and Terribly Fake Tips vols 1 & 2) which you can buy on amazon and all great book stores.
After a brief stint in Australia he now finds himself back in the Welsh valleys of his home country noting that it hasn't changed a bit!
