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A tour through the meaning of terms and types of games used on the video games industry.

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Although tower defence may be classified under the umbrella of RTS, its gameplay mechanics have evolved such that they are significantly distinguishable. Many tower defence games employ a rail path ...

Domain: Video games; Category: General gaming

Like FPSs they are shooting games or not but in this case played in third person perpective, were you see your character or screen instead of seeing the world through his/her/its eyes.

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

A game were your objective, most of the time, is to be unseen. It can be played in a lot of kind of ways and perpectives.(FPS, TPS,etc)

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

Shoot 'em up, or ShMUp, is a genre of videogames that is linked to both FPS and TPS games to a degree, but stems from older side-scrolling and top-down shooters, where accuracy and aiming were not ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

A role playing game is a genre of video game that allows the player to progress through a story in, usually, a less liner way than that presented in an FPS, TPS or ShMUp. The genre arose as the apex ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

Rhtythm games are games which require the player / players to compete for a high score by hitting timed button presses and holds. In many respects rhythm games can be seen as the grand masterwork of ...

Domain: Video games; Category: General gaming

This definition is used for strategy games that are not turn based, you have to make quick and strategic decisions while the game goes on.

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

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