Action Games and it’s Sub-genre's

Action Games

An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand and eye coordination and reaction-time. These are games where the player is in control of and at the center of the action, which mainly comprises physical challenges players must overcome. Video games like Donkey Kong and Galaga fall into this genre. Action games make up the most popular video games as getting into and starting to play is pretty easy. Action games have several major subgenres. Here we listed out some of the most popular subcategories:

• Character action games : These are a broad category of action games, referring to a variety of games that are driven by the physical actions of player characters. Classic examples of character action games from the early 1980s include Frogger, maze games like Pac-Man, and platformers like Donkey Kong.
• Beat ’em ups : These are also called “brawlers”. These involve fighting through a side-scrolling stage of multiple adversaries, using martial arts or other close-range fighting techniques.
• Fighting games : These feature combat between pairs of fighters, usually using martial arts moves. Actions are limited to various attacks and defenses, and matches end when a fighter’s health is reduced to zero. They often make use of special moves and combos. There are both 2D and 3D fighting games.
• Hack and slash : These are also called “slash ’em up” or “character action games”. Slash’em ups are a subgenre of beat ’em up brawlers that emphasize combat with melee-based weapons, such as swords or blades. They may also feature projectile-based weapons as well as secondary weapons. Shinobi, Golden Axe, Shadow Warriors, Strider, and Dragon’s Crown are some of the most popular 2D games. Popular 3D games include Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors, modern Ninja Gaiden, God of War, and Bayonetta.
• Maze games such as Pac-Man involve navigating a maze to avoid or chase adversaries.
• Platform games involve jumping between platforms of different heights, while battling enemies and avoiding obstacles. Physics are often unrealistic, and game levels are often vertically exaggerated. They exist in both 2D and 3D forms such as Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario 64.
• Side-scrolling character action games : These are also called “side-scrolling action games” or “side-scrollers” and are a broad category of character action games that were popular from the mid-1980s to the 1990s, which involve player characters defeating large groups of weaker enemies along a side-scrolling playfield.
• Shooter games: These allow the player to take action at a distance using a ranged weapon, challenging them to aim with accuracy and speed. This subgenre includes first-person shooters, third-person shooters, light gun shooters, rail shooters, run-and-gun shooters, and a plethora of shoot ’em up games taking place from a top-down or side-scrolling perspective.
• Hybrid action games are games that combine elements of action games with elements from other genres. Here is a list of some of the famous hybrid ones:
• Action-adventure games mix elements of both action and adventure game genres such as The Legend of Zelda. Action-adventure games are the most popular subgenre.
• Action role-playing games include features of role-playing games, such as characters with experience points and statistics.
• Battle royale games are a subgenre of action games that combine last-man-standing gameplay with survival game elements. It also frequently includes shooter elements. It is almost exclusively multiplayer in nature, and eschews the complex crafting and resource gathering mechanics of survival games for a faster-paced confrontation game more typical of shooters.
• Multiplayer online battle arena games, also called MOBA, “hero brawler” or “action real-time strategy” games, are a subgenre of real-time strategy (RTS) games with action game elements similar to brawlers or fighting games.
• Rhythm action games challenge the player’s sense of rhythm, and award points for accurately pressing certain buttons in sync with a musical beat. This is a relatively new subgenre of action game. Rhythm games are sometimes classified as a type of music games.
• Survival games start the player off with minimal resources, in a hostile, open-world environment, and require them to collect resources, craft tools, weapons, and shelter, in order to survive as long as possible. The genre also has similarities to action-adventure games.

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