History Main / FirstPersonGhost

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': While you can see JC Denton in mirrors and other reflections, you can't see his feet when you actually look down (though you would see a “blob shadow” under him.) The same holds true for just about any game based on the early builds of the [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine Unreal Engine]]: ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'', ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'', etc. Particularly odd in the case of well-polished floors, where you could see the soles of JC's boots reflected back at you.

* ''VideoGame/BrightMemory'' and its 2021 remake let the player to look down and see their character's legs.

* Version 3.0 of the ''VideoGame/ProjectBrutality'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' allows you to see your feet when looking down. Pretty impressive for a game that isn't even true 3D.

* In the [[UsefulNotes/OculusQuest Quest 2]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', you never see Leon's body in first-person POV, just his hands. Even if you have the weapon holsters set to "immersive" they'll just float on the airspace that should be Leon's chest and hips. The only exceptions are cutscenes (which were not made immersive).

* ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash''. Since this game was a {{Platform Game}} and a FirstPersonShooter, it was important to see where you were going to land. The developers of this game had the camera {{pan}} down as you fell. Not only did you get to see the character's feet, but a shadow as well.

* ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash''. Since this game was a {{Platform Game}} and a FirstPersonShooter, it was important to see where you were going to land. The developers of this game had the camera pan down as you fell. Not only did you get to see the character's feet, but a shadow as well.

** ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2010'' allows to see Predator's feet when looking down. An alien in this game moves on all fours, so technically we only see his "arms".

* Most VR first-person games either render your character as a floating pair of hands or sometimes a pair of arms. [[https://youtu.be/IofC7yxsT0o?t=513 Spoofed in this]] WebVideo/AngryJoe review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' (2017).
* ''Videogame/TheBlackpineOutbreak'' (2019): All you ever see of your character is his hands.
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser'' (1998). Not only did you see your arm but also your breasts, an essential view since they had a tattoo that represented your health meter. There's a code to play the game in third-person, but this reveals that you are literally a one-armed levitating pair of boobs with a gun, with an invisible rolling cube for "legs".
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' (1998), the "thirdperson" console command would allow one to have a third-person view over Gordon, with a complete model, though you still can't see anything other than your arms in first-person mode. Amusingly, in the ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift'' (2001) ExpansionPack, Barney Calhoun still uses Gordon's model, and in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' (2004), using the same command would result in seeing just Gordon's arms.

*** ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' (2006) can have this subverted by player made addons and gamemodes by rendering the legs and torso (and arms/hands if using a swep that makes you unarmed), although there can be the occasional artifact depending on the player model.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/Handcop'' (work in progress; prologue released in 2022), an FPS where your titular character is... just a disembodied, floating hand. Holding a gun.
* ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' (early access: 2016; full release: 2018) has separate models for first-person and third-person views, the former used by players, the latter used when viewing players on the battlefield. The game also used to have a third-person view toggle via a keybind (which, mercifully, was disabled in Ranked), added back in Open Beta 64 (around October 2017). This was removed in Update 2.09 (released in January 2020) because WordOfGod admitted that barely anyone used the feature to begin with.
* ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' (2002) has much like the first ''[=HL2=]'' example. Like the preceding ''VideoGame/{{Jedi Knight|DarkForcesII}}'' (1997), Kyle is fully modeled and animated in third-person, but has the usual "arms only" thing when in first-person. While the lightsaber in ''Jedi Knight'' was properly modeled and animated for both first- and third-person (though very much meant to be used in third-person, even having a toggle option in the menu to automatically switch to third-person when using the saber then back with anything else), in ''Jedi Outcast'', trying to use the lightsaber in first-person turns Kyle into nothing but a pair of hands with maybe half of their attached forearms fading out into nothing, gripping onto said lightsaber and using the third-person animations. By the time of ''VideoGame/JediKnightJediAcademy'' (2003), which added [[DualWielding dual]] and [[DoubleWeapon double-bladed]] lightsabers, the devs completely gave up on trying to make convincing first-person animations for the saber and forced the third-person perspective when using it.
* As with ''Mirror's Edge'' (2008), the developers of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' (2011) opted to use the same third-person model for the first-person viewpoint; toggling third-person, especially on the pre-patched PC version, would end up with the player character [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmZX8iz2SE being no better off than a typical zombie]].
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' (2000): While you can see JC Denton in mirrors and other reflections, you can't see his feet when you actually look down (though you would see a “blob shadow” under him.) The same holds true for just about any game based on the early builds of the [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine Unreal Engine]]: ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'' (1998), ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'' (2001), etc. Particularly odd in the case of well-polished floors, where you could see the soles of JC's boots reflected back at you.
** In the prequel, ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' (2011), the player doesn't ever see Adam Jensen's reflection in mirrors or shiny surfaces. Adam's body is modeled in-game, since the camera very frequently switches between first and third-person. Yet when you're ''in'' first-person perspective, you never see your legs and your hands are just drawn on-screen, but you can see them moving back and forth when you sprint without anything in your hands.
* In Human Head Studios' ''[[VideoGame/Prey2006 Prey]]'' (2006), the very first scene in the game shows the player looking at their own reflection in a mirror. Later in the game you can see yourself in other mirrors/reflections/portals. However, you can't see your feet.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' (1996) was one of the first FPS games with mouselook, and therefore one of the first examples of this trope. Of course, in early versions, you ''could'' see both of Duke's feet, but only when attacking with them (the left foot was the QuickMelee and the right foot the melee EmergencyWeapon), but the effect was closer to making Duke perform [[ThatRussianSquatDance Hopak]] than actually watching him walk from his own perspective.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' (2009) does away with seeing your legs and feet in first-person, no matter what your settings are. WordOfGod says that the removal of legs was needed in order to allow more zombies in the game world and cutting out legs in first-person would allow this goal, since rendering legs can get taxing on the Source engine. Notable because the first game is in the exceptions list below.
* One of the few things that's almost always present in an FPS are the hands and held items. Ironically, one example of a game which lacks even ''that'' is? ''VideoGame/GhostRecon1'' (2001).
** ''VideoGame/{{SWAT 3}}'' (1999) did this mostly the same, with the caveat that your crosshair changed to mimic the sights on whatever gun you were using as a rudimentary attempt to avert this trope. Entering the code "handsup" causes the game to display your third-person model, this averting this trope.
** So did early ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' games of the franchise that began in 1998 with the release of the game of the same name, before 2003 ''Raven Shield''[='=]s presentation upgrade (and yes, ''Ghost Recon'' ran on the same engine).
** ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' (2002), that—again—ran on a modified ''Rainbow Six'' engine.
* Taken to the extreme in the ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series up until the [[VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect third one]]. Even then three games released between 2000 and 2005 didn't do a perfect job:

* Particularly tasty in ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|1997}}'' (1997) and ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' (2000) on the Nintendo 64 since you can freely look down to the floor. Try it while standing in a corner and look for your feet...

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' (2007) lets you see Chell by looking through the portals, but you can't look down to see her legs and she doesn't cast a shadow (even in rooms in ''VideoGame/Portal2'' (2011) when other objects do). As with ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'''s gravity gun, you use the portal gun to pick up objects, but before you get it Chell seems to pick up things by glaring at them. [[http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/40861869135388711/7B4911C953C7458C90F4F0F19CB1382FEF704755/ Looking at yourself through the first portal, or the same portal's cameo in Portal 2 shows any object you're holding floating in midair.]]
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' (1994) and ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' (1999). ''[[http://www.it-he.org/sshock.htm The Hacker's Guide to Sin]]'' goes further: not only does the main character have no feet, but he's able to activate healing stations from 13 feet away, yet unable to search bodies across a gap, so he most likely has boneless tentacles that snake along the ground. The 2023 remake of the first ''System Shock'' averts this, showing your legs.
** SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' (2007) has both of your hands visible at different times (left hand is Plasmids, right hand is guns), but your feet are missing. One of the lesser goals of the sequel was making it possible to see your feet. And your shadow, if you happened to step in front of one of the few dynamic lights in the game. Basically, you're just a pair of sweater-sleeved arms, as revealed by this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqHf4C23XAM third-person mod]]. This also applies to your later [[spoiler: conversion into a Big Daddy]], in which you are STILL portrayed as a pair of sweater-sleeved arms, despite [[spoiler: wearing a full-body diving suit.]] But the trope is played straight again in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' (2013), where you can only see Booker's hands, but not the rest of his body, although a third-person model for him exists.
* A difficult call for ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' (2000) and its sequel (2002), where you can occasionally make out your character's facial features (typically while dying).
* ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' (2010) and ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' (2013) do not render the first-person player model (notably, there's a point in ''Last Light'' where you can look in a mirror, but not see yourself), even though scripted events sometimes have Artyom's arms or even his legs. Oddly though, he and his weapon's ''shadow'' are rendered with a decent degree of detail. Ultimately, the developers got better and gave Artyom a visible body in ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' (2019).
* Your player character in ''VideoGame/{{Receiver}}'' (2012) is never visible. The items in your "hands" simply float in front of you, moving around as you manipulate them.

** ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' (2001) plays this quite straight; unless you get into a vehicle, the only parts of yourself visible are your arms.
** A skull available in every main game in the series except ''Combat Evolved Anniversary'' (2011) allows you to take this to the extreme: unlocking and activating it makes your weapon and your entire HUD invisible, leaving actively firing your weapon as the only way to determine what you have (or whether it has ammo).
** ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite'' (2021) averts this like all the games after ''Combat Evolved'', but lets you un-avert it by playing with the FOV slider. Setting it any higher than the default of 78° will hide your legs, likely to prevent you from seeing that there isn't an upper body connecting them to your arms.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' (2016) provides an interesting example. Every hero in the game plays this straight, except for Orisa, who has visible legs when looking down.
* The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' (a collection of three games released in 2002, 2004 and 2007) shows only Samus's arm cannon and occasionally her left hand when using the Grapple Beam. When switching to and from morph ball mode, the camera changes and shows a full 3rd person model of Samus. Cutscenes will always show off Samus's model fully.

** In the first three games in the series (''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' released in 1994, ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' released in 1996, and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' released in 2002), only the player character's hands and arms are visible in first-person mode. ''Morrowind'' is the first in the series to offer a third-person playing mode.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' (2006), you cannot see anything but your arms in first-person. Additionally, you cast a shadow in third-person view but not in first-person. This gets even more strange when the horse you are riding always casts a shadow so if you look at the ground while riding your horse in first-person you will see the shadow of a horse with no rider. For PC users, the TFC console command gives you a ufo-camera option, using this in first-person will auto-set the camera into third-person pan without actually zooming out, leaving two arms floating in midair. More egregiously, you don't see your arms moving when swimming in first-person. Also, there are actually differences in the animations between first and third-person, noticeable with where the character holds their weapons between the two modes (as with pretty much ''every'' complaint about ''Oblivion'', there's a DLC that addresses this).
** There are [[GameMod mods]] for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' (2011) however that avert this, by simply having your third-person model rendered while in first-person as well, except for the head (and arms when equipping weapons).
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' (2008) and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' (2010) both inherited many of the above examples from their ''Elder Scrolls'' sister series. ''Fallout 3'' had an additional weird instance when ever you used zoom with a non-scoped weapon. In third-person the character would use the weapons sights like they should, but in first-person the camera just zooms and the players arms don't move at all. ''New Vegas'' fixed this issue, but added a lot more of the "differing first-person to third-person animation thing" with its melee weapons.
** ''New Vegas'' also made this a bit worse with its card minigames. Even though they're presented in-universe as your character playing on the in-game table, you still never see your hands—the cards just appear to float whenever you play one or shuffle the deck.
* Interesting example in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' (2015): when in third-person perspective the player-character's shadow will be rendered, but as soon as you switch to first-person perspective, the shadow disappears.

* Not just FPS games suffer from this. The ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' games are a series of first-person puzzle games that had a First-Person Ghost whose only visible appendage was a floating hand cursor. Justified in ''Myst'' (1993) and ''[[VideoGame/{{Riven}} Riven]]'' (1997) due to movement limitations, but by the time ''[[VideoGame/MystIIIExile Myst III: Exile]]'' (2001) rolled around, the player could not only look down and see that they had no feet, but also wind up standing ''on thin air just off of the edge of a cliff''. It's worse in ''[[VideoGame/MystIVRevelation Myst IV: Revelation]]'' (2004) when the hand cursor gained a more realistic look. You could even inexplicably tint the hand strange, unearthly colors other than 'skin tone' or 'heavily pigmented skin tone'. The developers thankfully fixed this in ''[[VideoGame/MystVEndOfAges Myst V: End of Ages]]'' (2005). All of this was done in the name of maintaining a FeaturelessProtagonist.
** ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'' (2016), also made by Cyan Worlds, does the same thing for the same reason, but includes the option of adding a generic male or female shadow, which if nothing else makes screenshots look marginally more realistic.
** While most of ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'' (2008) isn't first-person, there are a few such scenes in which objects must be handled and Nigel's arms are nowhere to be seen. This was probably deliberate, as it makes a story about ghosts just a little creepier ''not'' to avert this trope.
* ''Justified'' in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' (2011), during the Desmond's Journey sections, as the puzzles are made of pure Animus data, and Desmond can't even feel or see his own body.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' (original release: 2009; full release: 2010) lets you see only your arm and if you are holding an item, you only see the item itself while your arm is nowhere to be seen (unless you are holding a map, which both of your arms are shown then). Of course, hitting F5 turns you third-person, showing how you look in multiplayer. Your entire body is very, very visible.
* In ''[[VideoGame/Facade2005 Facade]]'' (2005), only Trip and Grace have (very blocky) models. ''You'' are purely a free-floating camera, with any objects you pick up levitating around with your cursor movements. If you move a full drink glass to the bottom of the screen, it animates to show you're drinking from it, but still does so in empty space.

* Justified in ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' (1993), as the player character is a literal ghost. Not so justified in its sequel, ''The 11th Hour'' (1995), which only shows you the beam of Carl's flashlight; he still apparently opens doors or manipulates puzzles telekinetically.
* ''[[VideoGame/AllIsDust2015 All Is Dust]]'' (2015): [[PlayerCharacter Thomas]]. The only part of his body you ever actually see is the hand holding the lantern.
* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' (2017), you can never see how [[PlayerCharacter Henry Stein]] looks, to the extent that [[spoiler:his exhibit in [[DevelopersRoom The Archives]] is just a placard next to an empty stand where Henry is supposed to stand on there himself.]] The next game in the series, ''[[VideoGame/BendyAndTheDarkRevival Bendy and the Dark Revival]]'' (2022), although, averts this trope and lets the player to see protagonist's legs.
* ''VideoGame/GoneGolfing'' (2020): You never really see the PlayerCharacter's body.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series (2007—2008) and its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' (2010) play this trope completely straight, due to engine limitations. In ''Penumbra'' (2007), you don't even see your own hands—even when you're holding a flashlight or swinging a pickaxe in front of you.

** A weirder example: In the [=NovaLogic=]'s combat simulation games (1996 ''F-22 Lightning II'', 1997 ''F-22 Raptor'', 1998 ''[=MiG-29 Fulcrum=]'' and ''F-16 Multirole Fighter'', 1999 ''F-22 Lightning 3''), you can freely look around the cockpit, and the pilot's body is there, ''but not his head'', giving the impression that we're looking through a camera hovering over a headless, neckless dummy.
* ''Videogame/EuroTruckSimulator'' (2008) and ''VideoGame/AmericanTruckSimulator'' (2016), while using the external view cameras, has your in-game character being a male with an [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy average profile]]. However, your hands are never seen in the first-person view, as the developer intended so the player can see the dashboard details.
* The protagonist of ''Videogame/WelcomeToTheGame'' (2016) doesn't have a body or cast any shadows, even when you get up to turn the light-switch on and off. In fact, they don't even scream or react to the presence of a person coming to kidnap them. This melds into TheAllConcealingI, as [[spoiler:one of the hidden endings reveals exactly who ''she'' is.]]
* ''VideoGame/RickAndMortyVirtualRickAlity'' (2017): The "Morty clone" you play as is just a floating Morty head and hands.
* In ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'' (2015), the PlayerCharacter's body is only seen during some cutscenes, but it remains ambiguous enough. Looking into a mirror even produces a glare to hide their appearance.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Deception}} Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness]]'' (1996) is the only installment of that franchise played from a first-person perspective, and it employs this to the hilt, with your character, a Zemekian prince, running around his castle and interacting with invaders and traps as a free-floating camera.
* ''VideoGame/{{Anatomy}}'' (2016) has an entirely featureless protagonist, where even if they walk into the bathroom to shine their flashlight on the mirror, only the glowing orb of light faces back. This is a case of this trope being invoked however, as [[spoiler:the ending of the game implies that the player is a figment of the imagination of a SapientHouse who had GoneMadFromTheIsolation]].
* ''{{VideoGame/Vanish}}'' (2014): The only part of your character you can see is their hand when they pass out or hold up a glowstick.
* ''VideoGame/ShutEye'' (2016): In at least one version, the PlayerCharacter's body is never visible.
* ''VideoGame/TheGhostTrain'' (2020): Kensuke Tanaka, the PlayerCharacter, is never seen. He doesn't even have a reflection in mirrors (mainly because of the game's own technical limitations).
* In ''VideoGame/DeathTrips'' (2018), the investigator may very well be invisible; none of their body-parts appear on screen.
* In the [[UsefulNotes/OculusQuest Quest 2]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' (2021 port of the 2005 game), you never see Leon's body in first-person POV, just his hands. Even if you have the weapon holsters set to "immersive" they'll just float on the airspace that should be Leon's chest and hips. The only exceptions are cutscenes (which were not made immersive).
* ''VideoGame/TheHex'' (2018): InUniverse, one of the patrons and the potential future murder suspects in Six Pint Inn is a FeaturelessProtagonist of the first-person interactive game. Predictably, said patron, named [[MyNameIsQuestionMarks ???]], looks like a pitch-black silhouette with purple question mark for a face, with only their hands being textured.
* Taken to the extreme in ''VideoGame/{{Visage}}'' (early access: 2018; full release: 2020) where aside from the GoldenEnding (and [[MindScrew maybe the intro]]), the player character Dwayne is ''completely invisible''. He doesn't even have hands or arms, despite interacting with things being the main gameplay loop. It can get pretty jarring in cutscenes where he appears to manipulate things with telekinesis. [[spoiler: You don't even see his jaw if Lucy manages to rip it off]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Mega}}'' (2022): The only part of [[PlayerCharacter James Ward]] that's seen is his hands.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' (2012) lampshades this trope: the player-character of ''Hero's Duty'', the only game played in first-person, is a robot called "The First-Person Shooter" with a pair of arms mounted on caterpillar tracks [[ScreensAreCameras and a TV screen]] [[TVHeadRobot for a head.]] The player only sees the arms.

* ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' (2023) allows the player to see their character's feet when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/AmericasArmy America's Army 3]]'' (2009) allows you to see your character's entire body when you look down. Interacting with objects (turning valves, opening doors, etc.) however, still seems to be done telekinetically.
* Articles about the development of ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' (2005) drove this point home. You can see the main character's feet, even while performing kung-fu. You also need to use your hands to climb ladders and swim, although curiously not to press buttons or open doors. If you look down you can see your legs, and the game actually renders your character model in the game world. There's even a unique character model for the player character, even though the player never is actually able to see themselves fully.
** In ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'' (2009) there are a small number of mirrors where you can see your character model. They also changed it so that you ''do'' have to use your hands to press buttons, turn wheels, and move objects—but still not to open doors, unless you like to [[DynamicEntry loudly bash them open with melee attacks]], since that was a mechanic added in the first game's expansions and kept for the rest of the series.
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' (2007) allows the player to see Estacado's lower body when looking down. In the sequel, the first-person legs were removed: your character's legs can be seen in the game's introductory sequence, but when the actual gameplay begins, your legs simply disappear.
* ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' 2012 reboot allows the player to see Miles Kilo's lower body when looking down.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' (2018), ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' (2019) and ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' (2021) allow to see protagonist's feet when looking down.
* While previous games in the series play this trope straight, ''[[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} Killzone 3]]'' (2011) averts it and allows you to see your legs in real time when you look down. Ditto for ''Mercenary'' (2013), which is quite a technical achievement for a handheld game, and ''Shadow Fall'' (2013).

** Games from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' (2004) onward have visible legs. It's perfectly possible not just to look down and see your thigh, but sometimes even to stick a plasma grenade to it. And in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' (2007), if someone leaves the party while playing co-op campaign online, the game freezes and glitches allowing you to look down directly into your torso.
** Games from ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'' (2012) onward totally avert this trope. Not only can you see your character's legs when you look down, but every onscreen prompt (i.e. "press X to open door", "press X to activate console") is fully depicted onscreen, with your character reaching out and interacting with the world. That said, modding reveals that the model you see in (at least) ''4'' isn't the same model everyone else sees. If the player replaces their model with a different hacked one, then the first-person view will still show the default Spartan arms while the third-person view will show the hacked model.
* Likewise, in Bungie's ''{{VideoGame/Destiny}}'' (2014) and ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' (2017), the player can look down and see their guardian's legs.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' 2008 reboot has visible legs.
* ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' (2001; re-released as ''ARMA: Cold War Assault'' in 2011) is one of the earliest games that does an honest attempt at not doing this trope. Of course, it'd invoke some really obvious FridgeLogic if you couldn't, since it also allowed you to use a third-person view. Its SpiritualSuccessor, the ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'' series that began in 2006 with the release of ''ARMA: Armed Assault'', go a step further and enable you to rotate your character's head independently of where their weapon is facing. In ''ARMA 3'' (2013), your character has impressive control over his movements—from leaning, three levels of standing, crouching, and laying down based on what cover you're shooting from, to being able to choose whether your character keeps the weapon up at the low ready, the high ready, or simply slung across his torso, it can be a challenge at first to remember all the controls to manipulate you character's rendered body.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' (2008) also lets you see your feet and legs (including the infected if you play as one) when you look down, but they don't appear if your graphic settings are too low or if you are playing on Xbox 360. Humorously, the height at which your body is situated [[GoodBadBugs makes it look like your arms are sprouting out of your neck, at least from your point of view.]] However, this function was removed in the sequel ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' (2009): the complexity of procedural animation system for animating the Jockey riding a Survivor combined with saving memory for the Xbox 360 led to legs getting cut.
* ''[[VideoGame/CounterStrike Counter-Strike 2]]'' (2023) is the first Valve's game since ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' that allows the player to see their character's legs.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' (2007) permits players to view their character's lower torso and legs, arguably to show off the extreme level of detail that was put into the game's Nanosuits. The same goes to its sequels, ''VideoGame/Crysis2'' (2011) and ''VideoGame/Crysis3'' (2013).
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' (2011) onward averts this, with the player character's body fully visible during most actions and when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3 Call of Duty: Black Ops III]]'' (2015) is the first game in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Duty]]'' series that began in 2003, that allows the player to see their character's body and legs when looking down. The feature returned in the sequels, such as ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4]]'' (2018), ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'' (2019) and so on.
* Completely {{averted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' (2011). The game has no first-person model, and all you see of Duke's body in first-person is the third-person model that is actually present in the game. Mirrors reflect Duke's body, whose position is always exactly the same as what you see in first-person, whatever you're doing (walking, shooting, reloading, or even just standing in place letting an IdleAnimation run). Of course, you can see your feet, although, for obvious reasons, the lower part of your body is blocked out of view when Duke is pissing.
* This can almost be completely averted in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' (2007) with a console command designed for use when playing with VR. Entering "cl_first_person_uses_world_model 1" in the console sets the first-person view into a mode in which, as the command would suggest, the view model is replaced with an eye-level view of the player's world model, allowing the player to see their entire body and their own shadow, along with any of the many fashion items the player may have decked on their character. While not perfect (parts often disappear or prove excessively obstructive), it works surprisingly well.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' (2017) allow you to see the entirety of your character's body from the neck down. Examining the game with a third-person camera mod reveals that, even though you can still see it in their shadow, the player's actual character model has no head; convenient for showing the effects when an enemy [[OffWithHisHead tears or cuts it off]].
* The FPS ''VideoGame/WillRock'' (2003) is one of the earliest games that gives the possibility to see the protagonist's legs when looking down. Also, there's an option that you can deactivate this function.
* In ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015 Star Wars Battlefront]]'' (2015) you can see your body when looking down.
* All games in the ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' series developed by Techland, except for ''[[VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger Gunslinger]]'' (2013). So the list includes the original game (2006), ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'' (2009) and ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'' (2011).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' (2007) you can see your body as a Mantel Solider or Promise Hand Rebel when looking down.
* In ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' (2008) you can see your body as a man fighting in an alternate [=WW2=] historical world when looking down.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Warface}}'' (2013) you can see the body for your soldier when looking down.
* In 4A Games' ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' (2019) you can see your body as Artyom when looking down. The game maintains UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective until the very end.
* Arkane Studios' ''[[VideoGame/Prey2017 Prey]]'' (2017) has body models for Morgan (protagonist of the base game) and playable characters of the ''Mooncrash'' expansion, which can be seen when looking down during normal gameplay. However, this ability is disabled when your character is in zero gravity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Viscerafest}}'' (2021)—while using 2D sprites for the characters—manages to (optionally, can be toggled off in the options) avert this, letting you see Caroline's pixelated legs whenever you look down.
* ''VideoGame/SlayersXTerminalAftermathVenganceOfTheSlayer'' (2023) is yet another shooter with pre-rendered character sprites that nonetheless allows you to see Zane's legs if you look down. [[GoodBadBugs Amusingly,]] if you crank up the field of view setting high enough, you'd also be able to see ''Zane's own upside down head'' if you look straight up.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' (2019) allows you to see your body for the first time in the series.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' (2020) lets you see your whole body, including any cybernetics you have.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' (2013) was re-released in 2014 and 2015 with the introduction of a first-person view option, among other improvements, for the [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One and Windows. Besides using the same third-person model in the first-person mode, Rockstar opted for using separate weapon and movement animations in order to better adapt combat to a different view, and also as recycling the same third-person animations would be awkward in first-person.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' (2018) uses a similar approach as ''GTA V''. In the first-person view, you can look down and see your character's lower body.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Grounded}}'' (early access: 2020; full release: 2022) you can see your body by looking down.

** ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' (2014) allows to see Ripley's feet when looking down.
** ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2010'' (2010) allows to see Predator's feet when looking down. An alien in this game moves on all fours, so technically we only see his "arms".
* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'' (2005) and [[VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot its 2008 sequel]] allow to see the character's legs when looking down.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Mount and Blade}}'' series that began in 2008 with the release of the game of the same name, you can see you arms and legs during first-person gameplay. Even when you die.
* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' (2008) and its reboot ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdgeCatalyst'' (2016) let you see Faith's legs. Good thing, too, because the game requires a lot of precision platforming. Additionally, you can see her full arms, shoulders, and torso, body position permitting (your camera is constrained to the directions Faith's eyes could actually be looking at any moment).

** The use of Nvidia Ansel in ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdgeCatalyst'' shows that not only is there a full model, it's rendered in an extremely high level of detail.
* ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash'' (1995). Since this game was a {{Platform Game}} and an {{FPS}}, it was important to see where you were going to land. The developers of this game had the camera pan down as you fell. Not only did you get to see the character's feet, but a shadow as well.
* In ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' (2004) you can see yourself when looking down in the first-person view.
* ''VideoGame/IronStorm'' (2002) allows you to see your character's legs when looking down.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin'' (2002) lets you see your legs, feet and hands while in first-person view, with third-person view being its default mode.
* ''[[VideoGame/DarkMessiah Dark Messiah of Might and Magic]]'' (2006) not only lets you look down at your body, but also shows you visibly lifting objects, kicking enemies, etc.

* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' (2013) makes the protagonist's chest, arms, legs and feet visible when looking down. Additionally, he frequently interacts with the environment physically; you can see his hands turning valves, pushing buttons, etc. The game adds several other features to avoid this trope, such as Miles visibly putting his hand on a wall when close to one, and leaving bloody footprints if he walks through a puddle of gore. Also, Miles' shadow is synchronised to his body movements, meaning that if he holds the camera his shadow also does.

** You can see your character's legs in its sequels, ''VideoGame/OutlastII'' (2017) and ''VideoGame/TheOutlastTrials'' (early access: 2023).
* ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' (2016) allows you to see your character's legs when looking down and toggle your character's reflection on or off. Various updates prior to its full release enhanced the clarity and movements of said model, among other things.
* ''[=VRChat=]'' (2014) averts this for a VR-based social game, although obviously your point of view did not always match your character model.
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick: VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' (2004) allows you to see the title character's arms and legs, as well as his shadow. This proves very useful in making a lot of the jumps, as well as creating a more immersive experience.
* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' (2009), although more of a brawler than a shooter, makes a point of being very detailed. The main character's hands are visible as his default weapons, his leg shows up during counterattacks, and when hit by a heavy blow, you can see him realistically scramble to his feet through his eyes. And you can see your character's legs when looking down.
* ''Montezuma's Return'' (1997), an obscure first-person action/puzzle game for Windows, was one of the first games to attempt to show your character's limbs. The game allows you to see your character's legs when looking down.
* In the obscure game named ''VideoGame/{{Breakdown}}'' (2004), not only you can see your character's reflection in the mirrors, but even his lower body when you look down.
* Techland's ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' (2011) allows to see the character's lower body when looking down. The sequel, Dambuster's ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2'' (2023), carries on the tradition and allows the player to see their character's legs when looking down too.
* Techland's ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' (2015) also lets you see Kyle Crane's body from the neck down. Much like ''Mirror's Edge'', this is fitting considering that the game involves a lot of platforming and parkour movements across rooftops. Not only that, but every single interactions in the game will have Crane reaching out to do it such as opening doors (the game will also have two different animations that depends whether the door is locked or not), searching objects for materials (which also differs based on the object being searched), sliding, climbing ladders, etc. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/DyingLight2StayHuman'' (2022), Techland improved the formula and gave the game's protagonist, Aiden Caldwell, an even better first-person body than Crane's.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' (2018) allows you to see Henry's legs (and arms, if they're resting) while walking. Unfortunately, it looks very awkward when he's moving.
* You can see your character's arms and legs in ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'' (2017), which aids in jumping. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor2'' (2022), you can see your character's body and legs when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Trenches2021}} Trenches]]'' (2021): if you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter the soldier]]'s body.
* ''VideoGame/TheCaregiver'' (2021): if you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter The Caregiver]]'s body. You can also see their reflection in mirrors.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Scorn}} Scorn]]'' (2020) allows the player to see their character's body and legs when looking down. The protagonist's body also serves as display of the inventory: you can look down and count out your bullets and health left.
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaRebirth'' (2020) and ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheBunker'' (2023) allow the player to see their character's legs when looking down.
* Both ''VideoGame/TheForest'' (2018) and ''VideoGame/SonsOfTheForest'' (2023) allow the player to see their character's feet when looking down.
* ''VideoGame/BrightMemory'' (early access: 2019; full release: 2020) and its 2021 remake let the player to look down and see their character's legs.
* In the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' 2023 remake you can look down and see your character's legs.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{PAMELA}} P.A.M.E.L.A.]]'' (early access: 2017; full release: 2020) you can look down and see your character's legs.
* In ''[[VideoGame/BendyAndTheDarkRevival Bendy and the Dark Revival]]'' (2022) you can look down and see your character's legs.
* In ''VideoGame/Trepang2'' (2023) you can look down and see your character's legs.

Upcoming games:
* ''Phantom Fury'' allows to see your character's legs when looking down.
* ''Corpus Edax'' allows to see your character's legs when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/NoMoreRoomInHell No More Room in Hell 2]]'' allows to see your character's legs when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl]]'' allows to see your character's legs when looking down. It seems that developers took some notes from ''VideoGame/MetroExodus''.

* The version 3.0 of ''VideoGame/ProjectBrutality'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' (1993) allows you to see your feet when looking down. Pretty impressive for a game that isn't even true 3D.
* The ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' (2003) FPS mod makes the game probably the most realistic FPS game, in the context of this trope. (Note. Doesn't it seem outdated though?)
** The similar FPS mod for ''VideoGame/JustCause2'' (2010), meanwhile, takes this to the extreme—you can even see [[GoodBadBugs inside your own head]] with it, unless you download/create a mod that removes Rico's head from his character model entirely.

* ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'' (2005): While not allowing you to see your legs by not letting you pan down to look, the game does show you doing EVERYTHING in the corner of the screen when you're possessing someone in the main single player mode.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' (a collection of three games released in 2002, 2004 and 2007):
** You can see Samus' eyes reflected in the Visor whenever a flash of light comes close, you can see her reflection in various reflective surfaces, etc.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' (2007) not only allows you to see Samus' lower body and arms when she's sitting in her spaceship, you can also view her skeleton when using the [[XRayVision X-ray visor]].

* ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' (2008) allows the player character's entire body to be seen, though usually only in specific circumstances like using a mortar, driving a vehicle, or [[WorstAid healing yourself by pulling sticks out of your belly and shrapnel out of your knee]].
** Ditto ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' (2012) and ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' (2014). Outside of the introductory cutscene, presented as a video recorded at least in part by someone else, ''Far Cry 3'' [[UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective never leaves first-person mode]]; not even during cutscenes, which all play from Jason's perspective. Additionally, while you can't see your legs if you just look down in normal gameplay, nearly every interaction with the environment is animated with your character's full body, including opening doors, climbing ledges, looting bodies, skinning animals, entering vehicles, and so on.
* The games of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series that began in 2003 with the release of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty1 the game of the same name]]'', in their multiplayer matches, feature an interesting example: the players bodies are rendered separately, so that the third-person version you see of another player isn't the exact same thing that ''they'' see in the first-person. While most the time the two match up more-or-less seamlessly, some interesting things can happen when they don't match up; for example, most modern ''[=CoD=]'' games will "smooth out" the player's third-person movement to look more fluid and natural, rather than the herky-jerky movement that would result if you showed their actual first-person movement.

** Also [[PlayingWithTropes played with]] in the single player campaign of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' (2010). When the game first starts, the player is strapped to a chair in front of several television monitors. You can see your character's face on the monitors, his arms strapped to the chair, and the like.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' (2011) you can see the protagonist's body when performing certain actions like kicking an enemy in the face.
* In the ''[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom]]'' 2016 reboot, you can see your body at certain times in the game, like when you do a finishing move and stomp on the enemy in a gory manner. Same applies to its sequel, ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' (2020).
* ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' (2013) keeps Artyom's body visible in an effort to maintain UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective, although you cannot see your legs outside of cutscenes. Most actions, like throwing a switch or opening a door, take you into small cutscenes, but nothing more. However, Artyom finally gets a visible body in the sequel, ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' (2019).
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' series that began in 2001 with the release of ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSamTheFirstEncounter The First Encounter]]''. You can't see your feet when you look down but hitting the H key shifts to third person where Sam is fully modeled. Taken to the extreme in ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSamII Serious Sam 2]]'' (2005) which goes out of it's way to avoid showing you Sam's arms in first person (by way of having weapons like the shotgun cycle automatically) even though you can still see him in full when you enter a vehicle.
* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'' (2020) ''almost'' completely averts this trope; you can't see your own body if you look down, but your Dwarf ''does'' leave footprints and interactions with the environment (pressing buttons, for example) are properly depicted.
* ''VideoGame/TheCitadel'' (2020) is another case of a first person shooter that despite using 2D sprites for the characters still lets you see The Martyr's chest, legs and even her [[{{Stripperific}} belt-clad]] pelvis whenever she's sliding.

* A non-FPS example, the early games of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' franchise that began in 1990 with the release of [[VideoGame/WingCommanderTheKilrathiSaga the game of the same name]] showed Blair's body seated in the cockpit, including animated arms manipulating the flight stick.
* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' (2012), Sigma's face is not seen and his voice is not heard, though in a flashback CG and the promotional anime his face is shown and he is voiced by Creator/TroyBaker. [[spoiler: His face is shown in the True End route, and is a ''massive'' spoiler. Troy Baker also voices the perspective character in the Secret End, a dead giveaway that the player is no longer Sigma.]]

* Most VR first-person games either render your character as a floating pair of hands or sometimes a pair of arms. [[https://youtu.be/IofC7yxsT0o?t=513 Spoofed in this]] WebVideo/AngryJoe review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard''.
* ''Videogame/TheBlackpineOutbreak'': All you ever see of your character is his hands.
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser''. Not only did you see your arm but also your breasts, an essential view since they had a tattoo that represented your health meter. There's a code to play the game in third-person, but this reveals that you are literally a one-armed levitating pair of boobs with a gun, with an invisible rolling cube for "legs".
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', the "thirdperson" console command would allow one to have a third-person view over Gordon, with a complete model, though you still can't see anything other than your arms in first-person mode. Amusingly, in the ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift'' ExpansionPack, Barney Calhoun still uses Gordon's model, and in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', using the same command would result in seeing just Gordon's arms.

*** ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' can have this subverted by player made addons and gamemodes by rendering the legs and torso (and arms/hands if using a swep that makes you unarmed), although there can be the occasional artifact depending on the player model.
* Parodied in ''VIdeoGame/HandCop'', an FPS where your titular character is... just a disembodied, floating hand. Holding a gun.
* ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' has separate models for first-person and third-person views, the former used by players, the latter used when viewing players on the battlefield. The game also used to have a third-person view toggle via a keybind (which, mercifully, was disabled in Ranked), added back in Open Beta 64 (around October 2017). This was removed in Update 2.09 (released in January 2020) because WordOfGod admitted that barely anyone used the feature to begin with.
* ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' has much like the first ''[=HL2=]'' example. Like the preceding ''VideoGame/{{Jedi Knight|DarkForcesII}}'', Kyle is fully modeled and animated in third-person, but has the usual "arms only" thing when in first-person. While the lightsaber in ''Jedi Knight'' was properly modeled and animated for both first- and third-person (though very much meant to be used in third-person, even having a toggle option in the menu to automatically switch to third-person when using the saber then back with anything else), in ''Jedi Outcast'', trying to use the lightsaber in first-person turns Kyle into nothing but a pair of hands with maybe half of their attached forearms fading out into nothing, gripping onto said lightsaber and using the third-person animations. By the time of ''VideoGame/JediKnightJediAcademy'', which added [[DualWielding dual]] and [[DoubleWeapon double-bladed]] lightsabers, the devs completely gave up on trying to make convincing first-person animations for the saber and forced the third-person perspective when using it.
* As with ''Mirror's Edge'', the developers of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' opted to use the same third-person model for the first-person viewpoint; toggling third-person, especially on the pre-patched PC version, would end up with the player character [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmZX8iz2SE being no better off than a typical zombie]].
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': While you can see JC Denton in mirrors and other reflections, you can't see his feet when you actually look down (though you would see a “blob shadow” under him.) The same holds true for just about any game based on the early builds of the [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine Unreal Engine]]: ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'', ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'', etc. Particularly odd in the case of well-polished floors, where you could see the soles of JC's boots reflected back at you.
** In the prequel, ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', the player doesn't ever see Adam Jensen's reflection in mirrors or shiny surfaces. Adam's body is modeled in-game, since the camera very frequently switches between first and third-person. Yet when you're ''in'' first-person perspective, you never see your legs and your hands are just drawn on-screen, but you can see them moving back and forth when you sprint without anything in your hands.
* In ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', the very first scene in the game shows the player looking at their own reflection in a mirror. Later in the game you can see yourself in other mirrors/reflections/portals. However, you can't see your feet.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' was one of the first FPS games with mouselook, and therefore one of the first examples of this trope. Of course, in early versions, you ''could'' see both of Duke's feet, but only when attacking with them (the left foot was the QuickMelee and the right foot the melee EmergencyWeapon), but the effect was closer to making Duke perform [[ThatRussianSquatDance Hopak]] than actually watching him walk from his own perspective.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' does away with seeing your legs and feet in first-person, no matter what your settings are. WordOfGod says that the removal of legs was needed in order to allow more zombies in the game world and cutting out legs in first-person would allow this goal, since rendering legs can get taxing on the Source engine. Notable because the first game is in the exceptions list below.
* One of the few things that's almost always present in an FPS are the hands and held items. Ironically, one example of a game which lacks even ''that'' is? ''VideoGame/GhostRecon1''.
** ''VideoGame/{{SWAT 3}}'' did this mostly the same, with the caveat that your crosshair changed to mimic the sights on whatever gun you were using as a rudimentary attempt to avert this trope. Entering the code "handsup" causes the game to display your third-person model, this averting this trope.
** So did early ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' games before ''Raven Shield''[='=]s presentation upgrade (and yes, ''Ghost Recon'' ran on the same engine).
** ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', that—again—ran on a modified ''Rainbow Six'' engine.
* Taken to the extreme in the ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series up until the [[VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect third one]]. Even then they didn't do a perfect job:
** Jo-Beth Casey shares the same FPS view as her changeling counterpart, despite the changeling having mirrored clothing and tentacles instead of arms.

* Particularly tasty in ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|1997}}'' and ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' on the Nintendo 64 since you can freely look down to the floor. Try it while standing in a corner and look for your feet...

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' lets you see Chell by looking through the portals, but you can't look down to see her legs and she doesn't cast a shadow (even in rooms in ''VideoGame/Portal2'' when other objects do). As with ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'''s gravity gun, you use the portal gun to pick up objects, but before you get it Chell seems to pick up things by glaring at them. [[http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/40861869135388711/7B4911C953C7458C90F4F0F19CB1382FEF704755/ Looking at yourself through the first portal, or the same portal's cameo in Portal 2 shows any object you're holding floating in midair.]]
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/SystemShock2''. ''[[http://www.it-he.org/sshock.htm The Hacker's Guide to Sin]]'' goes further: not only does the main character have no feet, but he's able to activate healing stations from 13 feet away, yet unable to search bodies across a gap, so he most likely has boneless tentacles that snake along the ground. The remake of the first ''System Shock'' averts this, showing your legs.
** SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' has both of your hands visible at different times (left hand is Plasmids, right hand is guns), but your feet are missing. One of the lesser goals of the sequel was making it possible to see your feet. And your shadow, if you happened to step in front of one of the few dynamic lights in the game. Basically, you're just a pair of sweater-sleeved arms, as revealed by this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqHf4C23XAM third-person mod]]. This also applies to your later [[spoiler: conversion into a Big Daddy]], in which you are STILL portrayed as a pair of sweater-sleeved arms, despite [[spoiler: wearing a full-body diving suit.]] But the trope is played straight again in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', where you can only see Booker's hands, but not the rest of his body, although a third-person model for him exists.
* A difficult call for ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' and its sequel, where you can occasionally make out your character's facial features (typically while dying).
* ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' and ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' do not render the first-person player model (notably, there's a point in ''Last Light'' where you can look in a mirror, but not see yourself), even though scripted events sometimes have Artyom's arms or even his legs. Oddly though, he and his weapon's ''shadow'' are rendered with a decent degree of detail.
* Your player character in ''VideoGame/{{Receiver}}'' is never visible. The items in your "hands" simply float in front of you, moving around as you manipulate them.

** ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' plays this quite straight; unless you get into a vehicle, the only parts of yourself visible are your arms.
** A skull available in every main game in the series except ''Combat Evolved Anniversary'' allows you to take this to the extreme: unlocking and activating it makes your weapon and your entire HUD invisible, leaving actively firing your weapon as the only way to determine what you have (or whether it has ammo).
** ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite'' averts this like all the games after ''Combat Evolved'', but lets you un-avert it by playing with the FOV slider. Setting it any higher than the default of 78° will hide your legs, likely to prevent you from seeing that there isn't an upper body connecting them to your arms.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' provides an interesting example. Every hero in the game plays this straight, except for Orisa, who has visible legs when looking down.
* The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' shows only Samus's arm cannon and occasionally her left hand when using the Grapple Beam. When switching to and from morph ball mode, the camera changes and shows a full 3rd person model of Samus. Cutscenes will always show off Samus's model fully.

** In the first three games in the series (''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''), only the player character's hands and arms are visible in first-person mode. ''Morrowind'' is the first in the series to offer a third-person playing mode.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', you cannot see anything but your arms in first-person. Additionally, you cast a shadow in third-person view but not in first-person. This gets even more strange when the horse you are riding always casts a shadow so if you look at the ground while riding your horse in first-person you will see the shadow of a horse with no rider. For PC users, the TFC console command gives you a ufo-camera option, using this in first-person will auto-set the camera into third-person pan without actually zooming out, leaving two arms floating in midair. More egregiously, you don't see your arms moving when swimming in first-person. Also, there are actually differences in the animations between first and third-person, noticeable with where the character holds their weapons between the two modes (as with pretty much ''every'' complaint about ''Oblivion'', there's a DLC that addresses this).
** There are [[GameMod mods]] for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' however that avert this, by simply having your third-person model rendered while in first-person as well, except for the head (and arms when equipping weapons).
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' both inherited many of the above examples from their ''Elder Scrolls'' sister series. ''Fallout 3'' had an additional weird instance when ever you used zoom with a non-scoped weapon. In third-person the character would use the weapons sights like they should, but in first-person the camera just zooms and the players arms don't move at all. ''New Vegas'' fixed this issue, but added a lot more of the "differing first-person to third-person animation thing" with its melee weapons.

* Interesting example in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': when in third-person perspective the player-character's shadow will be rendered, but as soon as you switch to first-person perspective, the shadow disappears.

* Not just FPS games suffer from this. The ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' games are a series of first-person puzzle games that had a First-Person Ghost whose only visible appendage was a floating hand cursor. Justified in ''Myst'' and ''Riven'' due to movement limitations, but by the time ''Myst III: Exile'' rolled around, the player could not only look down and see that they had no feet, but also wind up standing ''on thin air just off of the edge of a cliff.'' It's worse in ''Myst IV: Revelation'' when the hand cursor gained a more realistic look. You could even inexplicably tint the hand strange, unearthly colors other than 'skin tone' or 'heavily pigmented skin tone'. The developers thankfully fixed this in ''Myst V: End of Ages''. All of this was done in the name of maintaining a FeaturelessProtagonist.
** ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'', also made by Cyan Worlds, does the same thing for the same reason, but includes the option of adding a generic male or female shadow, which if nothing else makes screenshots look marginally more realistic.
** While most of ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'' isn't first-person, there are a few such scenes in which objects must be handled and Nigel's arms are nowhere to be seen. This was probably deliberate, as it makes a story about ghosts just a little creepier ''not'' to avert this trope.
* ''Justified'' in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', during the Desmond's Journey sections, as the puzzles are made of pure Animus data, and Desmond can't even feel or see his own body.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' lets you see only your arm and if you are holding an item, you only see the item itself while your arm is nowhere to be seen (unless you are holding a map, which both of your arms are shown then). Of course, hitting F5 turns you third-person, showing how you look in multiplayer. Your entire body is very, very visible.
* In ''VideoGame/Facade2005'', only Trip and Grace have (very blocky) models. ''You'' are purely a free-floating camera, with any objects you pick up levitating around with your cursor movements. If you move a full drink glass to the bottom of the screen, it animates to show you're drinking from it, but still does so in empty space.

* Justified in ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'', as the player character is a literal ghost. Not so justified in its sequel, ''The 11th Hour'', which only shows you the beam of Carl's flashlight; he still apparently opens doors or manipulates puzzles telekinetically.
* ''VideoGame/AllIsDust2015'': [[PlayerCharacter Thomas]]. The only part of his body you ever actually see is the hand holding the lantern.
* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', you can never see how [[PlayerCharacter Henry Stein]] looks, to the extent that [[spoiler:his exhibit in [[DevelopersRoom The Archives]] is just a placard next to an empty stand where Henry is supposed to stand on there himself.]]
* ''VideoGame/GoneGolfing'': You never really see the PlayerCharacter's body.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series and its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' play this trope completely straight, due to engine limitations. In ''Penumbra'', you don't even see your own hands—even when you're holding a flashlight or swinging a pickaxe in front of you.
* In flight simulators using fully modeled 3D cockpits you will often see your flight controls, which in some cases move based on the player's control inputs. But you almost never see the "body" of your pilot. Apparently the pilot is controlling the plane via Telekinesis.
** A weirder example: In the ''Novalogic'' combat simulation games (F-16 Multirole Fighter, F-22 Lightning 2/Raptor/Lightning 3, Mig-29 Fulcrum), you can freely look around the cockpit, and the pilot's body is there, ''but not his head'', giving the impression that we're looking through a camera hovering over a headless, neckless dummy.
* ''Videogame/EuroTruckSimulator'' and ''VideoGame/AmericanTruckSimulator'', while using the external view cameras, has your in-game character being a male with an [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy average profile]]. However, your hands are never seen in the first-person view, as the developer intended so the player can see the dashboard details.
* The protagonist of ''Videogame/WelcomeToTheGame'' doesn't have a body or cast any shadows, even when you get up to turn the light-switch on and off. In fact, they don't even scream or react to the presence of a person coming to kidnap them. This melds into TheAllConcealingI, as [[spoiler:one of the hidden endings reveals exactly who ''she'' is.]]
* ''VideoGame/RickAndMortyVirtualRickAlity'': The "Morty clone" you play as is just a floating Morty head and hands.
* In ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'', the PlayerCharacter's body is only seen during some cutscenes, but it remains ambiguous enough. Looking into a mirror even produces a glare to hide their appearance.

* ''Tecmo's VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' is the only installment of that franchise played from a first-person perspective, and it employs this to the hilt, with your character, a Zemekian prince, running around his castle and interacting with invaders and traps as a free-floating camera.
* ''VideoGame/{{Anatomy}}'' has an entirely featureless protagonist, where even if they walk into the bathroom to shine their flashlight on the mirror, only the glowing orb of light faces back. This is a case of this trope being invoked however, as [[spoiler:the ending of the game implies that the player is a figment of the imagination of a SapientHouse who had GoneMadFromTheIsolation]].
* ''{{VideoGame/Vanish}}'': The only part of your character you can see is their hand when they pass out or hold up a glowstick.
* ''VideoGame/ShutEye'': In at least one version, the PlayerCharacter's body is never visible.
* ''VideoGame/TheGhostTrain'': Kensuke Tanaka, the PlayerCharacter, is never seen. He doesn't even have a reflection in mirrors (mainly because of the game's own technical limitations).
* In ''VideoGame/DeathTrips'', the investigator may very well be invisible; none of their body-parts appear on screen.
* In the [[UsefulNotes/OculusQuest Quest 2]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', you never see Leon's body in first-person POV, just his hands. Even if you have the weapon holsters set to "immersive" they'll just float on the airspace that should be Leon's chest and hips. The only exceptions are cutscenes (which were not made immersive).
* ''VideoGame/TheHex'': InUniverse, one of the patrons and the potential future murder suspects in Six Pint Inn is a FeaturelessProtagonist of the first-person interactive game. Predictably, said patron, named [[MyNameIsQuestionMarks ???]], looks like a pitch-black silhouette with purple question mark for a face, with only their hands being textured.
* Taken to the extreme in ''VideoGame/{{Visage}}'' where aside from the GoldenEnding (and [[MindScrew maybe the intro]]), the player character Dwayne is ''completely invisible''. He doesn't even have hands or arms, despite interacting with things being the main gameplay loop. It can get pretty jarring in cutscenes where he appears to manipulate things with telekinesis. [[spoiler: You don't even see his jaw if Lucy manages to rip it off]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Mega}}'': The only part of [[PlayerCharacter James Ward]] that's seen is his hands.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' lampshades this trope: the player-character of ''Hero's Duty'', the only game played in first-person, is a robot called "The First-Person Shooter" with a pair of arms mounted on caterpillar tracks [[ScreensAreCameras and a TV screen]] [[TVHeadRobot for a head.]] The player only sees the arms.

* ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' allows the player to see their character's feet when looking down.
* ''VideoGame/AmericasArmy 3'' (2009) allows you to see your character's entire body when you look down. Interacting with objects (turning valves, opening doors, etc.) however, still seems to be done telekinetically.
* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'''s development articles drove this point home. You can see the main character's feet, even while performing kung-fu. You also need to use your hands to climb ladders and swim, although curiously not to press buttons or open doors. If you look down you can see your legs, and the game actually renders your character model in the game world. There's even a unique character model for the player character, even though the player never is actually able to see themselves fully.
** In ''FEAR 2'' there are a small number of mirrors where you can see your character model. They also changed it so that you ''do'' have to use your hands to press buttons, turn wheels, and move objects—but still not to open doors, unless you like to [[DynamicEntry loudly bash them open with melee attacks]], since that was a mechanic added in the first game's expansions and kept for the rest of the series.
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' allows the player to see Estacado's lower body when looking down.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' and ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' allow to see protagonist's feet when looking down.
* While previous games in the series play this trope straight, ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 3'' averts it and allows you to see your legs in real time when you look down. Ditto for ''Mercenary'', which is quite a technical achievement for a handheld game, and ''Shadow Fall''.

** Games from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' onward have visible legs. It's perfectly possible not just to look down and see your thigh, but sometimes even to stick a plasma grenade to it. And in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', if someone leaves the party while playing co-op campaign online, the game freezes and glitches allowing you to look down directly into your torso.
** Games from ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'' onward totally avert this trope. Not only can you see your character's legs when you look down, but every onscreen prompt (i.e. "press X to open door", "press X to activate console") is fully depicted onscreen, with your character reaching out and interacting with the world. That said, modding reveals that the model you see in (at least) ''4'' isn't the same model everyone else sees. If the player replaces their model with a different hacked one, then the first-person view will still show the default Spartan arms while the third-person view will show the hacked model.
* Likewise, in Bungie's ''{{VideoGame/Destiny}}'' series, the player can look down and see their guardian's legs.
* The 2008 ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' relaunch has visible legs.
* ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' (2001, re-released as ''Arma: Cold War Assault'' in 2011) is one of the earliest games that does an honest attempt at not doing this trope. Of course, it'd invoke some really obvious FridgeLogic if you couldn't, since it also allowed you to use a third-person view. Its SpiritualSuccessor, the ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'' series, go a step further and enable you to rotate your character's head independently of where their weapon is facing. In ''ARMA III'', your character has impressive control over his movements—from leaning, three levels of standing, crouching, and laying down based on what cover you're shooting from, to being able to choose whether your character keeps the weapon up at the low ready, the high ready, or simply slung across his torso, it can be a challenge at first to remember all the controls to manipulate you character's rendered body.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' also lets you see your feet and legs (including the infected if you play as one) when you look down, but they don't appear if your graphic settings are too low or if you are playing on Xbox 360. Humorously, the height at which your body is situated [[GoodBadBugs makes it look like your arms are sprouting out of your neck, at least from your point of view.]] However, this function was removed in the sequel ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'': the complexity of procedural animation system for animating the Jockey riding a Survivor combined with saving memory for the Xbox 360 led to legs getting cut.
* ''[[VideoGame/CounterStrike Counter-Strike 2]]'' is the first Valve's game since ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' that allows the player to see their character's legs.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' permits players to view their character's lower torso and legs, arguably to show off the extreme level of detail that was put into the game's Nanosuits. The same goes to its sequels, ''VideoGame/Crysis2'' and ''VideoGame/Crysis3''.
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' onward averts this, with the player character's body fully visible during most actions and when looking down.
* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3]]'' is the first ''[=CoD=]'' game that allows the player to look down and see character body and legs. The feature returned in the sequels, such as ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4]]'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'' and so on.
* Completely {{averted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''. The game has no first-person model, and all you see of Duke's body in first-person is the third-person model that is actually present in the game. Mirrors reflect Duke's body, whose position is always exactly the same as what you see in first-person, whatever you're doing (walking, shooting, reloading, or even just standing in place letting an IdleAnimation run). Of course, you can see your feet, although, for obvious reasons, the lower part of your body is blocked out of view when Duke is pissing.
* This can almost be completely averted in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' with a console command designed for use when playing with VR. Entering "cl_first_person_uses_world_model 1" in the console sets the first-person view into a mode in which, as the command would suggest, the view model is replaced with an eye-level view of the player's world model, allowing the player to see their entire body and their own shadow, along with any of the many fashion items the player may have decked on their character. While not perfect (parts often disappear or prove excessively obstructive), it works surprisingly well.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' allow you to see the entirety of your character's body from the neck down. Examining the game with a third-person camera mod reveals that, even though you can still see it in their shadow, the player's actual character model has no head; convenient for showing the effects when an enemy [[OffWithHisHead tears or cuts it off]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'' you can see your body when looking down.
* All games in the ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' series, except for ''Gunslinger''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' you can see your body as a Mantel Solider or Promise Hand Rebel when looking down.
* In ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' you can see your body as a man fighting in an alternate [=WW2=] historical world when looking down.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Warface}}'' you can see the body for your soldier when looking down.
* In ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' you can see your full body as Artyom when looking down. The game maintains UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective until the very end.
* ''VideoGame/Prey2017'' has a full body models for Morgan (protagonist of the base game) and playable characters of the ''Mooncrash'' expansion, which can be seen when looking down. However, this ability is disabled in zero gravity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Viscerafest}}''—while using 2D sprites for the characters—manages to (optionally, can be toggled off in the options) avert this, letting you see Caroline's pixelated legs whenever you look down.
* ''VideoGame/SlayersXTerminalAftermathVenganceOfTheSlayer'' is yet another shooter with pre-rendered character sprites that nonetheless allows you to see Zane's legs if you look down. [[GoodBadBugs Amusingly,]] if you crank up the field of view setting high enough, you'd also be able to see ''Zane's own upside down head'' if you look straight up.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' allows you to see your body for the first time in the series.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' lets you see your whole body, including any cybernetics you have.
* Besides using the same third-person model in the first-person mode for the eighth-generation and PC versions of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Rockstar opted for using separate weapon and movement animations in order to better adapt combat to a different view, and also as recycling the same third-person animations would be awkward in first-person.

** ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' uses a similar approach.
* You can see your body in ''VideoGame/{{Grounded}}'' by looking down.

** ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' allows to see Ripley's feet when looking down.
** ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2010'' allows to see Predator's feet when looking down. An alien in this game moves on all fours, so technically we only see his "arms".
* Same for ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'' and [[VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot its sequel]].
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Mount and Blade}}'' series, you can see you arms and legs during first-person gameplay. Even when you die.
* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' lets you see Faith's legs. Good thing, too, because the game requires a lot of precision platforming. Additionally, you can see her full arms, shoulders, and torso, body position permitting (your camera is constrained to the directions Faith's eyes could actually be looking at any moment).

* In ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' you can see yourself when looking down in first-person view.
* ''VideoGame/IronStorm'' allows you to see your character legs when looking down.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin'' lets you see your legs, feet and hands while in first-person view, with third-person view being its default mode.
* ''[[VideoGame/DarkMessiah Dark Messiah of Might and Magic]]'' not only lets you look down at your body, but also shows you visibly lifting objects, kicking enemies, etc.

* First-person SurvivalHorror game ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' makes the protagonist's chest, arms, legs and feet visible when looking down. Additionally, he frequently interacts with the environment physically; you can see his hands turning valves, pushing buttons, etc. The game adds several other features to avoid this trope, such as Miles visibly putting his hand on a wall when close to one, and leaving bloody footprints if he walks through a puddle of gore. Also, Miles' shadow is synchronised to his body movements, meaning that if he holds the camera his shadow also does.

** You can see your character's legs in its' sequels, ''VideoGame/OutlastII'' and ''VideoGame/TheOutlastTrials''.
* ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' allows you to see your character's legs when looking down and toggle your character's reflection on or off. Various updates prior to its full release enhanced the clarity and movements of said model, among other things.
* VR Chat averts this for a VR based social game, although obviously your point of view did not always match your character model.
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick: VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' allows you to see the title character's arms and legs, as well as his shadow. This proves very useful in making a lot of the jumps, as well as creating a more immersive experience.
* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'', although more of a brawler than a shooter, makes a point of being very detailed. The main character's hands are visible as his default weapons, his leg shows up during counterattacks, and when hit by a heavy blow, you can see him realistically scramble to his feet through his eyes. And you can see your character's legs when looking down.

* Techland's ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' allows to see the character's lower body when looking down. The sequel, Dambuster's ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2'', carries on the tradition and allows to see the body of a player character when looking down too.
* Techland's ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' also lets you see protagonist Kyle Crane body from the neck down. Much like ''Mirror's Edge'' example above, this is fitting considering that the game involves a lot of platforming and parkour movements across rooftops. Not only that, but every single interactions in the game will have Crane reaching out to do it such as opening doors (the game will also have two different animations that depends whether the door is locked or not), searching objects for materials (which also differs based on the object being searched), sliding, climbing ladders, etc. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/DyingLight2StayHuman'', Techland improves the formula and gives the protagonist Aiden Caldwell even a better first-person body.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' allows you to see Henry's legs (and arms, if they're resting) while walking. Unfortunately, it looks very awkward when he's moving.
* You can see your character's arms and legs in ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'', which aids in jumping.
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': if you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter the soldier]]'s body.
* ''VideoGame/TheCaregiver'': if you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter The Caregiver]]'s body. You can also see their reflection in mirrors.
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaRebirth'' and ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheBunker'' allow the player to see their character's legs when looking down.
* Both ''VideoGame/TheForest'' and ''VideoGame/SonsOfTheForest'' allow the player to see their character's feet when looking down.
* In the 2023 remake of ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', you can look down and see your character's legs.
* In ''VideoGame/PAMELA'', you can look down and see your character's legs.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl]]'' will feature the ability to see your body when looking down.

* The version 3.0 of ''VideoGame/ProjectBrutality'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' allows you to see your feet when looking down. Pretty impressive for a game that isn't even true 3D.
* The ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' FPS mod makes the game probably the most realistic FPS game, in the context of this trope. (Note. Doesn't it seem outdated though?)
** The similar FPS mod for ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', meanwhile, takes this to the extreme—you can even see [[GoodBadBugs inside your own head]] with it, unless you download/create a mod that removes Rico's head from his character model entirely.

* ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'': While not allowing you to see your legs by not letting you pan down to look, the game does show you doing EVERYTHING in the corner of the screen when you're possessing someone in the main single player mode.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'':

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' not only allows you to see Samus' lower body and arms when she's sitting in her spaceship, you can also view her skeleton when using the [[XRayVision X-ray visor]].

* ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' allows the player character's entire body to be seen, though usually only in specific circumstances like using a mortar, driving a vehicle, or [[WorstAid healing yourself by pulling sticks out of your belly and shrapnel out of your knee]].
** Ditto ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' (and ''VideoGame/FarCry4''). Outside of the introductory cutscene, presented as a video recorded at least in part by someone else, the game [[UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective never leaves first-person mode]]; not even during cutscenes, which all play from Jason's perspective. Additionally, while you can't see your legs if you just look down in normal gameplay, nearly every interaction with the environment is animated with your character's full body, including opening doors, climbing ledges, looting bodies, skinning animals, entering vehicles, and so on.
* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games, in their multiplayer matches, feature an interesting example: the players bodies are rendered separately, so that the third-person version you see of another player isn't the exact same thing that ''they'' see in the first-person. While most the time the two match up more-or-less seamlessly, some interesting things can happen when they don't match up; for example, most modern ''[=CoD=]'' games will "smooth out" the player's third-person movement to look more fluid and natural, rather than the herky-jerky movement that would result if you showed their actual first-person movement.

** Also [[PlayingWithTropes played with]] in the single player campaign of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]''. When the game first starts, the player is strapped to a chair in front of several television monitors. You can see your character's face on the monitors, his arms strapped to the chair, and the like.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' you can see the protagonist's body when performing certain actions like kicking an enemy in the face.
* In the ''[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom]]'' 2016 reboot, you can see your body at certain times in the game, like when you do a finishing move and stomp on the enemy in a gory manner.
* ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' keeps Artyom's body visible in an effort to maintain UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective, although you cannot see your legs outside of cutscenes. Most actions, like throwing a switch or opening a door, take you into small cutscenes, nothing more. But Artyom finally gets a visible body in the sequel, ''VideoGame/MetroExodus''.
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' games. You can't see your feet when you look down but hitting the H key shifts to third person where Sam is fully modeled. Taken to the extreme in ''Serious Sam 2'' which goes out of it's way to avoid showing you Sam's arms in first person (by way of having weapons like the shotgun cycle automatically) even though you can still see him in full when you enter a vehicle.
* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'' ''almost'' completely averts this trope; you can't see your own body if you look down, but your Dwarf ''does'' leave footprints and interactions with the environment (pressing buttons, for example) are properly depicted.
* ''VideoGame/TheCitadel'' is another case of a first person shooter that despite using 2D sprites for the characters still lets you see The Martyr's chest, legs and even her [[{{Stripperific}} belt-clad]] pelvis whenever she's sliding.

* A non-FPS example, the early ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' games showed Blair's body seated in the cockpit, including animated arms manipulating the flight stick.
* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', Sigma's face is not seen and his voice is not heard, though in a flashback CG and the promotional anime his face is shown and he is voiced by Creator/TroyBaker. [[spoiler: His face is shown in the True End route, and is a ''massive'' spoiler. Troy Baker also voices the perspective character in the Secret End, a dead giveaway that the player is no longer Sigma.]]

* ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' allows to see Ripley's feet when looking down.

** You can see your character's legs in its' sequels, ''VideoGame/OutlastII'' and ''VideoGame/OutlastII''.

* Techland's ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' also lets you see protagonist Kyle Crane body from the neck down. Much like ''Mirror's Edge'' example above, this is fitting considering that the game involves a lot of platforming and parkour movements across rooftops. Not only that, but every single interactions in the game will have Crane reaching out to do it such as opening doors (the game will also have two different animations that depends whether the door is locked or not), searching objects for materials (which also differs based on the object being searched), sliding, climbing ladders, etc. In its sequel, ''VideoGame/DyingLight2StayHuman'', Techland improves the formula and gives the protagonist Aiden Caldwell even a better first-person body.

** ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', that - again - ran on a modified ''Rainbow Six'' engine.

** ''New Vegas'' also made this a bit worse with its card minigames. Even though they're presented in-universe as your character playing on the in-game table, you still never see your hands- the cards just appear to float whenever you play one or shuffle the deck.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series and its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' play this trope completely straight, due to engine limitations. In ''Penumbra'', you don't even see your own hands - even when you're holding a flashlight or swinging a pickaxe in front of you.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'': While not allowing you to see your legs by not letting you pan down to look, the game does show you doing EVERYTHING in the corner of the screen when you're possessing someone in the main single player mode.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'':
** You can see Samus' eyes reflected in the Visor whenever a flash of light comes close, you can see her reflection in various reflective surfaces, etc.
** When you go into third-person view via Morph Ball or Screw Attack, Samus clearly has a model and it moves fluidly. However, her model vanishes the minute you go back to first-person view. You can also aim her arm cannon straight down, but you'll never see her feet.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' not only allows you to see Samus' lower body and arms when she's sitting in her spaceship, you can also view her skeleton when using the [[XRayVision X-ray visor]].
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* ''VideoGame/AmericasArmy 3'' allows you to see your character's entire body when you look down. Interacting with objects (turning valves, opening doors, etc.) however, still seems to be done telekinetically.
* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'''s development articles drove this point home. You can see the main character's feet, even while performing kung-fu. You also need to use your hands to climb ladders and swim, although curiously not to press buttons or open doors. If you look down you can see your legs, and the game actually renders your character model in the game world. There's even a unique character model for the player character, even though the player never is actually able to see themselves fully.
** In ''FEAR 2'' there are a small number of mirrors where you can see your character model. They also changed it so that you ''do'' have to use your hands to press buttons, turn wheels, and move objects - but still not to open doors, unless you like to [[DynamicEntry loudly bash them open with melee attacks]], since that was a mechanic added in the first game's expansions and kept for the rest of the series.

* Same for the ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' 2012 reboot (see above).
* ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' allows the player character's entire body to be seen, though usually only in specific circumstances like using a mortar, driving a vehicle, or [[WorstAid healing yourself by pulling sticks out of your belly and shrapnel out of your knee]].
** Ditto ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' and its sequels. Outside of the introductory cutscene, presented as a video recorded at least in part by someone else, the game [[UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective never leaves first-person mode]]; not even during cutscenes, which all play from Jason's perspective. Additionally, while you can't see your legs if you just look down in normal gameplay, nearly every interaction with the environment is animated with your character's full body, including opening doors, climbing ledges, looting bodies, skinning animals, entering vehicles, and so on.

* Likewise, in Bungie's {{VideoGame/Destiny}} series, the player can look down and see their guardian's legs.

* ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' is one of the earliest games that does an honest attempt at not doing this trope. Of course, it'd invoke some really obvious FridgeLogic if you couldn't, since it also allowed you to use a third-person view. Its SpiritualSuccessor, the VideoGame/{{ARMA}} series, go a step further and enable you to rotate your character's head independently of where their weapon is facing. In ''ARMA III'', your character has impressive control over his movements - from leaning, three levels of standing, crouching, and laying down based on what cover you're shooting from, to being able to choose whether your character keeps the weapon up at the low ready, the high ready, or simply slung across his torso, it can be a challenge at first to remember all the controls to manipulate you character's rendered body.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' also lets you see your feet and legs (including the infected if you play as one) when you look down, but they don't appear if your graphic settings are too low. Humorously, the height at which your body is situated [[GoodBadBugs makes it look like your arms are sprouting out of your neck, at least from your point of view.]] However, this function was removed in the sequel ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', even in the backported levels from the first game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' permits players to view their character's lower torso and legs, arguably to show off the extreme level of detail that was put into the game's Nanosuits.
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' averts this, with the player character's body fully visible during most actions.
* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games, in their multiplayer matches, feature an interesting example: the players bodies are rendered separately, so that the third-person version you see of another player isn't the exact same thing that ''they'' see in the first-person. While most the time the two match up more-or-less seamlessly, some interesting things can happen when they don't match up; for example, most modern ''[=CoD=]'' games will "smooth out" the player's third-person movement to look more fluid and natural, rather than the herky-jerky movement that would result if you showed their actual first-person movement.
** Because of lag, what one character shows in third-person might be delayed from what they're doing in first-person. This can lead to situations where you get shot by someone who appears to not even be facing you; their bullets will seem to [[BizarreAndImprobableBallistics exit the barrel at an angle]] to hit you. This is especially common when using riot shields to keep an attacker at bay, with the killcam frequently showing you failing to track a hostile moving around behind the shield to shoot you, when from your perspective you clearly kept it pointed at him the whole time and he apparently responded by just cheating and shooting through it anyway.
** If you are hit with a flashbang grenade, your character will appear to cover their eyes and shake their head, with their gun pointed at the ground and off to the side. However, from the first-person perspective, your gun is still up, meaning that you can still shoot and kill the person who flashbanged you.
** Going prone actually takes into account the position of your limbs in multiplayer; it's possible to be "prone blocked" and be unable to turn without standing up or at least crawling to the side to put some distance between yourself and the wall if your legs are up against it.
** Also [[PlayingWithTropes played with]] in the single player campaign of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]''. When the game first starts, the player is strapped to a chair in front of several television monitors. You can see your character's face on the monitors, his arms strapped to the chair, and the like.

* Both ''VideoGame/{{Propagation}}'' games comically depicts you as a pair of floating limbs holding guns.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' you can see the protagonist's body when performing certain actions like kicking an enemy in the face.
* The FPS ''VideoGame/WillRock'' is one of the earliest games that gives the possibility to see the protagonist's legs when looking down. Also, there's an option that you can deactivate this function.
* In the 2016 reboot of ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' you can see your body at certain times in the game, like when you do a finishing move and stomp on the enemy in a gory manner.

* The ''VideoGame/ProjectBrutality'' mod for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' allows you to see your feet when looking down. Pretty impressive for a game that isn't even true 3D.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' you can see your body as a Mantel Solider or Promise Hand Rebel.
* In ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' you can see your body as a man fighting in an alternate [=WW2=] historical world.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Warface}}'' you can see the body for your soldier at all times.
* ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' keeps Artyom's body visible in an effort to maintain UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective. Most actions, like throwing a switch or opening a door, take you into small cutscenes.
* ''VideoGame/Prey2017'' has a model for Morgan.
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' games. You can't see your feet when you look down but hitting the H key shifts to third person where Sam is fully modeled. Taken to the extreme in ''Serious Sam 2'' which goes out of it's way to avoid showing you Sam's arms in first person (by way of having weapons like the shotgun cycle automatically) even though you can still see him in full when you enter a vehicle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Viscerafest}}'' - while using 2D sprites for the characters - manages to (optionally, can be toggled off in the options) avert this, letting you see Caroline's pixelated legs whenever you look down.
* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'' ''almost'' completely averts this trope; you can't see your own body if you look down, but your Dwarf ''does'' leave footprints and interactions with the environment (pressing buttons, for example) are properly depicted.
* ''VideoGame/TheCitadel'' is another case of a first person shooter that despite using 2D sprites for the characters still lets you see The Martyr's chest, legs and even her [[{{Stripperific}} belt-clad]] pelvis whenever she's sliding.

* The ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' FPS-Mod makes the game probably the most realistic FPS game, in the context of this trope.
** The similar FPS mod for ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', meanwhile, takes this to the extreme - you can even see [[GoodBadBugs inside your own head]] with it, unless you download/create a mod that removes Rico's head from his character model entirely.

* ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash''. Since this game was a {{Platform Game}} and an {{FPS}}, it was important to see where you were going to land. The developers of this game had the camera pan down as you fell. Not only did you get to see the character's feet, but a shadow as well.
* In ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' you can see yourself in first-person.
* ''VideoGame/IronStorm'' allows you to see your character from first person to third person.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin'' lets you see your legs, feet and hands while in first-person view, with third-person view being its default mode.

* A non-FPS example, the early ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' games showed Blair's body seated in the cockpit, including animated arms manipulating the flight stick.
* First-person SurvivalHorror game ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' makes the protagonist's chest, arms, legs and feet visible when looking down. Additionally, he frequently interacts with the environment physically; you can see his hands turning valves, pushing buttons, etc. The game adds several other features to avoid this trope, such as Miles visibly putting his hand on a wall when close to one, and leaving bloody footprints if he walks through a puddle of gore. Also, Mile's shadow is synchronised to his body movements, meaning that if he holds the camera his shadow also does.

* ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' allows you to toggle your character's reflection on or off. Various updates prior to its full release enhanced the clarity and movements of said model, among other things.
* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', Sigma's face is not seen and his voice is not heard, though in a flashback CG and the promotional anime his face is shown and he is voiced by Creator/TroyBaker. [[spoiler: His face is shown in the True End route, and is a ''massive'' spoiler. Troy Baker also voices the perspective character in the Secret End, a dead giveaway that the player is no longer Sigma.]]

* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'', although more of a brawler than a shooter, makes a point of being very detailed. The main character's hands are visible as his default weapons, his leg shows up during counterattacks, and when hit by a heavy blow, you can see him realistically scramble to his feet through his eyes.
* ''Montezuma's Return'', an obscure first-person action/puzzle game, was one of the first games to attempt to show your character's limbs.
* In the obscure game named ''VideoGame/{{Breakdown}}'', not only you can see your character's reflection in the mirrors, but even his lower body when you look down.
* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' allows to see the lower body's character when looking down.

* ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' also lets you see protagonist Kyle Crane body from the neck down. Much like ''Mirror's Edge'' example above, this is fitting considering that the game involves a lot of platforming and parkour movements across rooftops. Not only that, but every single interactions in the game will have Crane reaching out to do it such as opening doors (the game will also have two different animations that depends whether the door is locked or not), searching objects for materials (which also differs based on the object being searched), sliding, climbing ladders, etc.

* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': If you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter the soldier]]'s body.
* ''VideoGame/TheCaregiver'': If you look down, you can see [[PlayerCharacter The Caregiver]]'s body. You can also see their reflection in mirrors.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'', only Trip and Grace have (very blocky) models. ''You'' are purely a free-floating camera, with any objects you pick up levitating around with your cursor movements. If you move a full drink glass to the bottom of the screen, it animates to show you're drinking from it, but still does so in empty space.

* One of the few things that's almost always present in an FPS are the hands and held items. Ironically, one example of a game which lacks even ''that'' is? ''VideoGame/GhostRecon''.