I'm sick of generic shooters.

[Millennium]

It's easier to say what can make a shooter generic than what makes it non-generic. This is typically how I phrase it, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy:

• If your shooter takes place on another planet, in space, in Hell, or in war-torn Europe, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's enemies are zombies, aliens, demons, or Nazis, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's main character is a prisoner, a soldier, or the last known survivor of the apocalypse, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's color scheme is dominated by gray, green, or brown, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's list of weapons can be described as a melee weapon, a pistol, a shotgun, a rapid-fire gun, an explodey weapon that bounces, an explodey weapon that flies, a really fast gun, a sniper rifle, and a BFG, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's main character is not designed to interact with any of the game's NPCs except to kill them, it might be generic.
• If your shooter's largest audience is younger than its content rating says it's suitable for, it might be generic.