Expanding Genres Classify PC Games

PC games are a great way of relaxation and having fun for all ages. Either you are a child coming from school or even a working person who just went back home from work, games are for everyone and anyone. The truth is that they have evolved into a real industry. Online or offline, from simple flash games to modern wonders, pc games have attracted a mass of followers that are ready to devour the next impressive achievement.

Nobody could have foreseen 15 years ago that one day we would be able to interact with thousands and thousands of other people online with the means of an online game. That's what technological breakthrough has evolved into nowadays.

There are many PC games genres, which would fall into more categories, each with its own distinctive type of playing. Although the majority of them ultimately need you to defeat the bad guys, the ways in which you can do that are many, varied, and in different environments. You can do that anywhere and anytime, from ancient Rome to epic space battles in the different future.

FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS
They are also commonly referred to as "Shoot 'em ups" because of the way in which you need to approach the game. You have a 1st person view, meaning that you will see the game environment as you would if you were actually there.

You are given many different weapons with which you need to kill the bad guys. You will probably need to start out with nothing more than a knife, but don't worry, you will get the big guns later on. Although there are many examples of good first person shooters available out there, the Doom and Quake franchises seem to dominate the market.

REAL TIME STRATEGY
This is the type of pc game in which you usually you need to build a strong empire with enough fighting force to overcome the enemy. It has 2 aspects, the military aspect and the economical one. Usually you need to harvest resources in order to be able to produce different military units capable of running a war.

Common examples of this sort of games include Starcraft and the Warcraft series. They also have a common, the TBS (turn based strategy), and a few of those games actually wrote history (the Civilization series, the Heroes of Might and Magic series).

RPG

The abbreviation comes from "role playing game." This is a game in which you start on a character that is weak at first and who gains experience as you progress through the game, by battling different monsters. With the help of the experience gained, your character becomes stronger and stronger, able to fight stronger monsters and enemies, and ultimately defeats evil, which is also the purpose of the game.

A relatively recent development of RPGs is the MMORPG (massive multiplayer online RPG), in which thousands of people fight online in a usually immense world in which you can do anything you want: fight monsters, complete quests, fight other players, and of course gain experience all throughout. Although it has not been the first game of this genre, the most acclaimed game of this type is World of Warcraft which has an impressive community worldwide.

There are many other types of games available out there, I just pointed out the most common of them: racing games, sport games, adventure games, action games and many other types of games form an impressive industry that has truly put the pc games in the first line of entertainment over the last decade.