Action
Description
In action games players are required to have good reflexes and quick reaction in order to overcome challenges. Action games typically focus on combat, during which the player must press buttons or keys rapidly or in timed intervals in order to execute attacks and other moves. Non-combat challenges may include avoiding traps, jumping, running, completing tasks within a pressing time limit, etc.
Common action sub-genres are
shooters,
fighting, and
platform games.
Though most racing / driving, sports, and many simulation games contain action-oriented gameplay, they can be considered action games only if they specifically emphasize arcade-like, reflex-based gameplay.
Action games may include extensive non-violent exploration and/or puzzle-solving, or combine themselves with other genres, e.g. role-playing or driving.
Quick thinking is often required to succeed in action games; however, games that specifically emphasize quick
thinking over
reflexes are usually
real-time strategy or puzzle games.
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Windows (1999) Up to four players take part in a game show hosted by "Mister Quizz", a rather baffled and unorganized guy,... |
NES (1992) Mitsume ga Tooru (translates to The Three-Eyed One) is based on the manga and anime of the same name. You... |
ZX Spectrum (1987) Młynek (Mill) is an action game, taking place on a board made up of several concentric square lanes filled with... |
Game Boy Advance (2007) and Nintendo DS (2007) Mr. Runch is a rotten and dangerous peanut that has escaped the reject bin. Burning with revenge and sworn to... |
Macintosh (2000), Windows (2000) and PlayStation (2001) In M&Ms: The Lost Formulas, the 2 lead candies are about to set off on a vacation until the red... |
PSP (2006) Mind Quiz is brain training game very similar to the Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! DS... |
NES (1990) Moai Kun is a platform puzzle game where you play as Moai, the Easter Island statue, that has appeared in... |
MSX (1986) In The Secret Treasure Of Moai your goal is to reach the level exit at the top by climbing and... |
Xbox (2005) and Windows (2004) The player assumes the role of Jimmy "Machine Gun" DeMora who is an up and coming thug in the Al... |
Windows (2002) Mobile Forces is a modern era deathmatch and mission based multiplayer first person shooter with vehicles. The usual array of... |
Game Boy Color (2001) Mobile Golf is sort of a follow-up to Mario Golf, and has very similar gameplay and storyline. The game starts... |
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PlayStation 2 (2002) and Xbox (2002) Mobile Light Force 2 is a budget-priced port of AlfaSystem's vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up Shikigami no Shiro. It features five levels with... |
Amstrad CPC (1989) As man in some sort of hand-made bike/helicopter you are flying down into the catacombs of some French town. These... |
PlayStation (1995) Mobile Suit Gundam is a first-person action game that puts you in the shoes of Amuro Ray, pilot of the... |
PlayStation 3 (2012) Returning yet again to the One Year War, Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation pits two squads of six players each,... |
PlayStation 3 (2006) This is an installment of the anime game series, Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire takes place Nine months after the... |
PlayStation 2 (2003) Fight in the One Year War on four different fronts. In White Base mode play as Amuro Ray through the... |
PlayStation 2 (2001) Based on the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, this game has you choose which side to lead into victory from... |
PlayStation 2 (2004) In this version of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, a war as taken place between the The Titans and a... |
MSX (1984) The game is based on the popular Japanese Mobile Suit Gundam anime tv series that features robot warriors, the tv... |
Game Boy Advance (2004) Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Battle Assault pits eight (plus four unlockable) Alliance and ZAFT pilots against each other in armored... |
NES (1986) and Game Boy Advance (2004) Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble is the first known Mobile Suit Gundam game released on the NES. Mobile Suit Gundam... |
Android (2011), iPad (2011) and iPhone (2011) The world is at the state of global war. KPR (an alliance of terrorist organizations from North Korea, Pakistan and... |
Windows (2010) This is a parody remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All the main scenes (including the notorious "No... |
