Console Game Categories
Console Game Categories
Console Game Categories
Genres in the video games market are used to categorize titles based on their game play style or game objectives. Genres in the gaming industry are world independent, meaning that a title can be classified as an action game whether it set in a medieval setting of trolls and witches or a futuristic city setting with mutants and hover cars.
The following is a list of the most frequently used computer title genres and descriptions for each. Each one of these genres could be divided up into a several sub-categories but I haven't covered any of these in this list.
Action Games
Playing action games requires fast reflexes, and the ability to overcome challenges very fast and sometimes under a time limit. The action game category is very open and covers lots of types of games from modern first person shooter games primarily focussed on combat-like or fighting right the way back to many of the very first video games like breakout or PAC-man.
Adventure Games
Everyone loves playing adventure games, being whisked away to some far off land, of trolls, monsters and wizardery. Adventure titles were some of the first titles created. Starting off as text based adventure titles and morphing into the massive adventure, role play and puzzle solving games of today.
Adventure games normally require the player to directly interact with his or her game environment either by conducting conversations with other in game players or by quickly solving puzzles to proceed to new zones.
Action-Adventure Games
Action-adventure titles combine all the best parts of the genres action and adventure. The games often need the player to correctly solve simple puzzles while also being directly involved in combat scenarios. These games often have open ended stories where one action at the beginning of the story can indirectly affect the outcome not only of the current scenario, but also of the story ending itself.
Role-Playing Games
Role play games (RPG's) have come a long way in the last 5 years, from being influenced by original tabletop pen and paper games. Role play games are commonly set in ancient or medieval times where gamers take on roles of travelling adventures or mercenaries and take on quests in order to gain experience and progress through the game.
Fighting, puzzle solving and conversational persuasion of in game characters is quite common. RPG's (role-play games) can either be fairly open where the player has many amounts of available options and can venture off exploring on his own (i.e. Baldur's Gate) or follow a fairly strict and linear storyline (i.e. Final Fantasy Series).
Role-play games are very often played over the internet with hundreds of other human players. These MMO (Massive Multi-player Online) games are hugely popular with titles like World of Warcraft having hundreds of online players at any one time.
Simulation Games
Simulation titles frequently put the player in a god-like role, where they directly control either the world as a whole, a town, a theme park or a train line These simulation games tend to be grouped into either a construction based sub-genre where the character must construct a city or theme park from nothing to a very popular destination.
There are also simulation titles where you are in control of just one character. Life simulation games are hugely popular with teenage females players, because not only can you control a single person but sometimes you can nurture a pet from being born into a fully grown adult pet. You can sometimes manage a full mini world like an aquarium.
Strategy
Strategy games are often played by quick thinking skilled players. Using carefully planned and advanced strategies their objective is to defeat opposing characters or clans. Strategy games can be both real time or turn based.
Real-time strategy games are very complex than turn based as player decisions are often made quickly and under pressure from opposing teams. Turn based titles are like chess where you consider every move when placing your pieces then when the time is correct you execute your strategies in the hope of victory.
I hope this article gives you a better understanding of the many categories used in the console game industry, and inspires you to play some different genres or games.
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