Different game genres

Genre	Genre description	Genre example
FPS	An FPS is a first person shooter, normally the camera is set in first person meaning you see through the players eyes, these games are heavily based around gunplay.	One example of this would be counter-strike, arguably the first pioneers for the fps genre. Counter-strike is an online game with no campaign missions, unlike most fps’s of today like Call of Duty. In counter-strike you either play as 1 of two teams, the terrorists or the counter terrorists. The aim of the terrorist’s side is to plant the bomb at a bomb site and make sure that no one diffuses it while the counter terrorists have to stop them from doing so. This game is heavily based around gunplay and teamwork.
Survival horror	A survival horror game is exactly that, a horror game. These games are meant to scare you with blood, gore and normally zombies. Normally trying to create a suspense atmosphere by handicapping the player.	One great example of this is the resident evil series, specifically 4 as it is regarded as one of the best ones. This game is based on a random unknown village in an unspecified part of Europe, the player is sent in to save his friend. While in the village though he finds the blood thirsty villagers trying to kill him. This game is great because it sets up a scary atmosphere very well, a lot of enemies will jump out at you creating a jump scare effect. Another way is that the game gives you very little ammo, and with what ammo you do have you have an inventory system that you have to organise to fit stuff into it. This is the handicap the game gives you. This topped with some scary and hard boss fights makes a hard and scary game.
MMORPG’s	An MMORPG is similar to an ordinary RPG except that these take place online and with thousands/millions of people around the globe. The point of an RPG is to embark upon quests to achieve a reward. MMO’s normally don’t have an end game goal, rather they have many quests scattered throughout.	Another example is Runescape. Runescape is a free to play MMORPG containing thousands upon thousands of people playing it. Set in the world of Runescape your player is sent to complete various quests for people to gain higher stats and sometimes good item rewards to use in combat. The main point of runescape is to achieve a higher level in all of your skills, for example the cooking skill, cooking food in runescape gives you experience points in the cooking skill. The maximum level you can get for a skill is 99 and this is what most players aim for in most skills.
Simulation	A simulation game is exactly what is says in the title, a simulation. These games revolve normally around a real life practise. For example flight simulator puts you in the pilot’s seat of flying a plane. The key to simulation games which you have probably guessed is immersion. Creating as much as real life as possible. Although this isn’t true for all simulation games as of recent.	Probably one of the most popular simulation games of all time is the Sims. This game is about real life and It’s as simple as that, you first of start by making a family, or just a single sim, in which you then buy a house for your sim to live in. after that you get them a job and make sure that all of their needs are fulfilled for example energy and hunger and Once you’ve done all of that you wait for your sim to die, or you could just kill them yourself as you are essentially the god of the sim world, it’s all up to you.
sport	Sports games go hand in hand with simulation games but generally involve a lot more action, sports games are simply a game revolving around the sport that it chooses to base its game around. For example: Rugby, football, golf, tennis all of these examples apply.	Fifa is a good sports game and arguably one of the most popular one as well. Fifa is based on its real life counterpart football, the aim of the game is two teams verse each other at trying to kick a ball into the other team’s nets while defending and attacking the opposing teams.
puzzle	A puzzle game is where you have to solve a sequence of puzzle normally in order to progress to the next level, while doing this the difficulty normally ramps up until a final finale is ensued with a very hard puzzle to solve.	portal is a physics based puzzle game. The game involves the player traversing an abandoned science lab getting guided by a corrupt AI computer using a portal gun to get from one game to another.
Role playing game	A role playing game is similar to an MMORPG except that these games are not online, and it has more of a story and you have more of an impact on the game world around you with an end game goal.	Skyrim is quite a popular RPG game which is also a third or first person game. You take the role of whatever race and gendered character you decide to choose and embark on an adventure to save the land of skyrim from the evil dragon Alduin, along the way you meet a variety of different people and can join a variety of different societies in the game.
Stealth	A stealth game comes under the action-adventure genre as is generally based around sneaking around and trying to complete certain objectives while staying out of sight from enemies.	Apart from splinter cell, metal gear solid is arguably one of the most popular stealth game out there on the market. You play as snake trying to infiltrate Russia to retrieve someone from the clutch of the Russians, you must sneak your way past enemies, defeat difficult bosses and infiltrate your way into enemy strong holds all while staying undetected. Combat is hard in this game when you have alerted other guards which gives you all the more reason to use stealth to get about.
Text based	Text based adventure games are the games that came before any other action game, these always use just text to navigate your way round the author’s fantasy world. Sometimes there can be illustrations of things around you but mainly it’s just text to guide you through.	Zork is the most popular text based adventure game out there. In this game you guide your character through a labyrinth of different challenges telling him where to go and what to do, guiding your way out of difficult mazes and battling monsters.