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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PlayStation 3 (2011) and PSP (2011)

Ships are disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle. Two planes are sent to an unexplored island, the so named "Hell Island",...

Odyssey (1972)

Prehistoric Safari is part of the Shooting Gallery add-on for the Odyssey. It requires the supplied rifle accessory, and game...

Prehistorik DOS Front Cover

DOS (1991), Amiga (1991), Atari ST (1991), Amstrad CPC (1991), CDTV (1991), iPad (2010), iPhone (2010) and Android (2011)

Prehistorik is a side-view platform game with a superficial similarity to Chuck Rock. You control a neanderthal who must march...

Prehistorik 2 DOS Front Cover

DOS (1993) and Amstrad CPC (1993)

Prehistorik 2 takes up the story of its predecessor, for another caveman-era platform game. The hero must use his club...

Prehistorik Man Nintendo DSi Front Cover

SNES (1995), Nintendo DSi (2010), Game Boy Advance (2001) and Android (2012)

In Prehistorik Man, the player takes control of a neanderthal who is on a quest to travel through various levels,...

Prehistorik Man Game Boy Front Cover

Game Boy (1996)

"Me hungry! Me want FOOD!!"You, Sam the caveman, are hungry. You travel through various levels, defeating enemies, to gain yourself...

Premiere Amiga Front Cover

Amiga (1992) and Amiga CD32 (1994)

Six film reels have been stolen from your film studios by a rival company. In this platform game, your mission...

Atari 8-bit (1982)

Preppie! is a variant of Frogger that takes place on the toughest golf course in the world, the Ninenty Nine,...

Presidential Street Fight 2008 Browser Front Cover

Browser (2008)

Despite its title Presidential Street Fight 2008 doesn't have any real fist fighting to it, instead the player takes control...

Pressure Cooker Atari 2600 Front Cover

Atari 2600 (1983)

In Pressure Cooker, you are a cook whose job is to fullfill hamburger orders at "The Grille". Along the bottom...

Atari 2600 (2000)

Pressure Gauge's gameplay is a simple as its graphics, albeit not that easy to describe. On the left of the...

Pretty Pretty Bang Bang Browser Front Cover

Browser (2006)

Pretty Pretty Bang Bang is a browser conversion of the freeware game Every Extend.Controlling a bomb the aim of the...

Pretty Pretty Bang Bang: Remix Browser Front Cover

Browser (2007)

Pretty Pretty Bang Bang: Remix is an alteration of Pretty Pretty Bang Bang with ideas the creator wanted to test...

PreVa Windows Front Cover

Windows (2008)

In the near future, as mankind fights for the last remaining resources on Earth, the powerful nations of the world...

Prey Windows Front Cover

Windows (2006), Xbox 360 (2006), Macintosh (2007) and Linux (2008)

When Tommy, a garage mechanic, defends his girlfriend in a bar fight in a Native American reservation in Oklahoma, the...

Prey (Limited Collector's Edition) Windows Front Cover

Windows (2006) and Xbox 360 (2006)

This Limited Collector's Edition includes the following:The game PreyA special metal packaging upgradeTwo die-cast pewter figurines including Tommy and the...

Prey Mobile 3D Zeebo Front Cover

Zeebo (2009), iPhone (2009) and BREW (2007)

Prey Mobile 3D is a sequel of sorts to Prey. The player controls Tommy, the Native American hero from the...

DOS (1991)

Prigodi Pionerki Kseni (The Adventures of Ksenia the Young Pioneer) is an unofficial stand-alone total conversion of The Adventures of...

Windows (2010)

This compilation includes: The Mark WarPath Dead to Rights II

Primal PlayStation 2 Front Cover

PlayStation 2 (2003) and PlayStation 3 (2012)

Jen is the girlfriend of a metal rocker named Lewis, who have both been through rough times in the past...

Windows (2013)

Agent Trapper is the third downloadable content (DLC) for Primal Carnage, which features the Trapper in a black tie ensemble...

Windows (2012)

Dinosaur Skin Pack 1 is the first downloadable content (DLC) for Primal Carnage, which features: Classic T-Rex. Green Menace Dilophasaurus....

Windows (2013)

Pilot Commando is the second downloadable content (DLC) for Primal Carnage, which features a pilot suit for the commando, inspired...

Primal (Collector's Edition) PlayStation 2 Front Cover

PlayStation 2 (2003)

The collector's edition of Primal contains a bonus audio CD featuring 5 combat tracks by 16Volt, a VIP Card that...

Primal Prey Windows Front Cover

Windows (2001)

In Primal Prey, the player travels back in time 100 million years to hunt the dinosaurs. Just like in the...

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