3.2 Genres in Video Game
Video game genres are used to categorize video games based on their gameplay interaction
rather than visual or narrative differences. Video game genres are
defined by a set of gameplay
challenges.They are classified independent of the ir setting or game
-world content, unlike other works of fiction such as films or books(Apperley 2006, date of retrieved 15.2.2012)
.
The
f
ollowing
is a listing of commonly
known
video
and computer
game genres with brief de
scriptions and
an
exam
ple
of each: