Genres

All games have a ‘theme’ or style. There are sports games such as FIFA Football or the Winter Olympics. Then there are racing games like F1 2007 or Toca. Below is a list of the genres that we use in listings and a brief description of what they mean.

Action

Action

Action/Adventure

Action/Adventure

Adventure

Adventure

Air combat

Air combat

Arcade air combat

Arcade air combat

Dancing

Dancing

Driving

Driving vehicles rather than racing them

Extreme sports

For the more dangerous sports

EyeToy

Uses the camera

Fighting

Games based loosely on martial arts

First person shooter

First person shooter

Flight simulation

Flight simulation

Mech combat

Fighting with machines

Music

You create your own music

Party games

Party games

Platform

Like Crash Bandicoot/ in 2D

Puzzle

Brain teasers etc

Racing

Any form of vehicle racing

Rhythm action

Rhythm action

RPG

Role playing game

Shoot-em-up

You go around shooting anything that moves

Simulation

Usually flight/flying simulations but can be a simulation of ‘real life’

Sport

Any simulation involving a sport

Strategy

You have to plan ahead

Survival horror

Fighting zombies & other horrors

TV Tie-in

Based on a TV programme