: What really is Second person view?

Question

I’ve seen first person view, I’ve seen third person view, but never second person.

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Answer 1

A second person view and third person view in video games have a lot of the same characteristics. In first and third person view you’re still the main character controlling the camera just that camera angles are different.

In second person view it’s basically somebody else is controlling where the camera is. For example latkatu in super Mario 64. Another example might be in red dead redemption 2 with the cinematic horse riding camera.you don’t get to decide when the camera changes are where it’s going to be that’s sort of second person