Everyone loves games, we used to play games when we were young, and we still wouldn’t say no to a nice game. We might like playing games with friends, having some fun playing poker, pool, going bowling, etc… We might just want to enjoy a nice computer game, either just a simple card game online, or a computer game with much violence, blood, and action. Maybe just play an adventure computer game, where you have to follow the clues to solve the quest, maybe find the treasure, or save the princess 🙂

There are many types of games out there and they are basically divided into 5 types of computer games:

1. Strategic games
2. First-person shooters
3. Third-person views
4. Racing games
5. Sport games

1. Strategic games
Games like Red Alert, WarCraft, Command & Conquer, Sim-City, Farmville (online), Ikariam (online), etc… These types of strategy games require planning, patience, calculated moves, and caution. When we were kids there used to be adventure games, where you had to solve problems in order to continue on your quest, at first it was followed with text and pictures (you had to visualize the rest in your mind) today you get to move your player through the mazes, through the obstacles, fight enemies who try to prevent you from continuing on your quest, and would prefer better to kill you unless you kill them first.

Giving an example is like when you play “IKARIAM“, you are building a city, then buildings a storage building to store all of the minerals you collect by working in the minds (if it’s a Mine island) and chop woods at the quarry. Each Island has its own minerals and you need to at least get a city at 4 different Island to achieve the 4 types of minerals you can collect. Those minerals are needed for different types of buildings, like the scholars who study new technologies, so you could build newer and stronger war machines, armor, weapons, etc… The process of collecting the minerals, waiting for a building to finish, takes time, so you need to be patient, while you also need to be cautious against other city players who want to loot your minerals (faster than collecting them). So you need to plan, develop and maintain the balance between building, guarding and money collection since everything like in life costs money, like sending soldiers, or war ships, buying trading ships, etc…

2. First-person shooters
Games like: Call of duty, Crysis, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Left 4 dead, Half-life 2 and of course many more. Those are the most common games, which are enjoyable, and of course who wouldn’t want to become an excellent soldier, walking through the battlefield without getting hurt for real, just kill the enemy and win the war. These are games from a first-person view called first-person shooters, which resembles as if you are playing and it gives a sense of experience that enable you to simulate as if you are the one making all of the shooting.

An example of such a game is if we look at Crysis, there is a unit with special suits that enable special abilities, that is sent to recon a high situation at an island only to reveal there are aliens forces on that island. During the mission, you fight against local Korean enemy forces, and then the aliens as they reveal themselves using your suitability to cloak, move quickly, jump high and shield you. You can also find equipment to improve your weapons and of course new types of weapons to choose from. This is a high action fighting game, who uses strategy, stealth, and many flying bullets :).

3. Third-person views

Games like: Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 4, Grand theft auto, Gear of wars, MDK, Star Wars: Battlefront, Assasins creed, etc…
Third-person shooter (TPS or 3PS) are games where you can see the player from a distance, at different perspective angels. These third-person shooter games enable you to be the puppeteer by controlling your player from afar, moving him, make him fight, shoot, run, jump and climb things, in short just do whatever you desire in order to continue on your mission, and avoid or pass through obstacles, maybe shoot your way through.

A good example would be, if we look at Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider game series, she is sexy but vicious, she can do almost anything like swimming, jumping, riding bikes, shooting pistols, guns, shut guns, and all that while using acrobatic performance. She is a treasure hunter, like Indiana Jones if you favored the movie series only she is a female. She has an amazing body figure and she uses technology, fitness tricks, and accurate shooting to pass through the obstacles she encounters in order to achieve her goal, and finish her mission.

4. Racing games

Games like: Test drive, Gran Turismo, MotoGP, Need for speed, Burnout paradise, Race driver – GRID, Motor-storm, Motor-Sport, etc…

These racing game simulators, enable you to feel as if you are the racing driver of your dreams as you join those racing drivers on the grid, and take part of trying to beat them while driving at blazing speeds, trying to make the turns perfectly without being thrown out of the track.

There is much excitement in these games, who wouldn’t want to feel the need for speed, with the comfort of being safe at home? without risking everything by doing a small mistake that could cost you !!! These games enable you to feel as if your there, behind the wheel or the handlebars of a sportbike/dirt bike, and just blaze away at high ridiculous speeds, without the fear of getting hurt. You might crash, but it is only a game, so you won’t really get hurt (not really) 🙂

5. Sport games
Games like: Virtua tennis, NBA 2K10,  NHL 2K10, FIFA 10 Soccer, PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) 2010, Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, etc…
These games enable you to be the sport professional as you might have dreamt. You can join the team and play while feeling you’re at the top of the world, playing with the best, if its individually as a tennis player or as a team player in soccer, basketball, baseball, and any other group sport you might think of, there is a game for it.

You might just enjoy skiing against the best, in winter games, or swim quickly at the Olympics, no matter what type of a sporting dream you might have had, you can fulfill it by playing your desired sport game, without sport injury, without even breaking sweat (even though you might sweat during the game as the stress of beating others dominate you).
There are many great sports games out there, with amazing graphics, so you could feel as if your there, playing others who look almost real enough to believe you really among them, as real as it gets.

Enjoy