Military shooters have crushed any creativity within first-person shooters, says THQ's head of global communications Huw Beynon.

Speaking with OXM, Beynon argued that fantastical escapist games were becoming rare in the FPS genre these days due to the popularity of titles like Call of Duty.

“[Military FPS titles] kind of stamp out memories of what I remember being great about first person shooters, whether that was Half Life, System Shock or GoldenEye – where a first person shooter didn't necessarily have to involve military material, it just meant an invitation to a fantastic other world, which to me was always the point of video games in the first place," he said.

However, Beynon believed players were tiring of playing a near-invincible super-soldier mowing down waves of brainless enemies.

"I think it's probably very true to say that there's reaction to what used to be a small subset of the genre of a military shooter, which has ballooned and mushroom-clouded to almost define the genre.”

He pointed to the success of Dishonored and Far Cry 3, along with the anticipation around BioShock Infinite and – he hoped – Metro: Last Light as proof.

”I’ve hugely enjoyed [Dishonored] and I’m thrilled that they’ve had success with that – it’s probably the game that’s interested me most this year and am glad to see it get the critical and hopefully commercial success that it deserves.”

Metro: Last Light is due out in March 2013 on Windows PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.