What games are there on the computer?
There are a lot of computer games. Therefore, in order to talk about what games on a computer are, you first need to understand the characteristics of them that can be classified. The most important sign is the genre of the game.
Genres also exist very much. Many of them are divided into subgenres, which are also divided into categories and types, etc. Often developers themselves come up with a genre for a new game. Many other games are a combination of several genres. Remembering which games went to the computer, we note a few basic genres.
- Action games require the player to quickly think andgood reaction. These include games of genre shooter, fighting game and arcade. Famous shooters today - Counters Strike, Battlefield and Call of Duty. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Tekken are the most popular fighting games.
- Also among the abundance that there are games oncomputer, there are strategies. They are divided into turn-based and real-time strategies (RTS). Real-time strategies emphasize the player's tactical decisions. In this game process of various games of the genre RTS has a lot in common (StarCraft, Age of Empire). Step-by-step strategies allow the player to more carefully plan their actions. Accordingly, the victory in them depends on the ability of the player to think deeply over various scenarios for the development of the situation. Games of this genre are often very different from each other. For example, Heroes of Might and Magic, Civilization and the Total War series (in this line there is also an element of RTS) are radically different from each other.
- Quests. These games require the player to solve a large number of logical problems. Usually in them the player gets or finds some objects with which he must interact with the outside world (insert the key into the lock, collect a puzzle, shoot a crossbow from the rope, etc.) to promote the plot. In the top lists, which games came out on the computer in the genre quest, a prominent place is occupied by the games Syberia 1 and 2.
- Another genre of games - simulators. In them, the player needs to operate the vehicle from the car to the airliner or ship. These games differ from the arcade in that they bring the management as close as possible to reality. Here you need to know what each tumbler is responsible for in the cockpit of a real airplane or a racing car. It is very difficult to deal with management in such a game.
Number of Players
Also an important parameter is the number of players who can play. In this respect, games are single and multiplayer. To multiplayer games include:
- in which you can play on one computer;
- in which several people are playing on the network;
- massive online games (when on one server are played by hundreds, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people).
To find out which games will go to the computer,which is in your room, you need to compare its characteristics with the system requirements of a game. To be aware of what the best games on the computer have recently come out or will soon be out, you can regularly visit the pages of online magazines devoted to the game theme.
