Death match (DM) Death match is an all out frag fest, there’s really nothing else to it. The game ends when the time limit or frag limit has been reached. Tactic factor = tbd Strategy factor = tbd Fun factor = tbd Skill factor = tbd Team death match (TDM) Team death match is the [...]

Cheating in online games are activities that modify the game experience to give one player an advantage over another player(s); depending on the game, different activities constitute cheating and it is often a matter of consensus opinion as to which particular activity or activities actually constitute cheating. Clive Thompson writes that “Johann Huizinga, one of [...]

Wargames are simulations of military battles, campaigns or entire wars. Players will have to consider situations that are analogous to the situations faced by leaders of historical battles. As such, war games are usually heavy on simulation elements, and while they are all “strategy games”, they can also be “strategic” or “tactical” in the military [...]

Real-time strategy (RTS) games are a genre of computer wargames which do not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II. In an RTS, as in other wargames, the participants position and maneuver units and structures under their control to secure areas of the map and/or destroy [...]

Real-time tactics (RTT) is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics. It is also sometimes considered a subgenre of real-time strategy and may in this context exist as an element of gameplay or as a basis for the whole game. It is differentiated [...]

Strategy video games are a genre of video game that emphasize skillful thinking and planning in order to achieve victory.They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Strategy games played on computers generally take one of four archetypal forms, depending on whether the game is turn-based or real-time and whether the game’s focus is upon [...]

Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player’s speed and reaction time. Because “shooters make up the majority of action games”, it is a fairly wide subgenre. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing “on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this [...]

A tactical shooter is a subgenre of shooter game that includes both first-person shooters and third-person shooters. These games typically simulate realistic combat, thus making tactics and caution more important than quick reflexes in other action games. Tactical shooters involving military combat are sometimes known as “soldier sims”. Tactical shooter is a shooter that generally [...]

Call of Duty: World at War is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. It is the fifth installment in the Call of Duty series excluding expansion packs. The game’s setting returns to World War II, after [...]

Call of Duty is an award winning first-person shooter video game series franchise. The series began on the PC, and later expanded to consoles and handhelds, and several spin-off games have also been released alongside the main series. The majority of the games in the series have been set in World War II, with the [...]