Game genres

Genre	description	example
Survival Horror	A survival game focuses on scaring the player using methods such as, atmospherics, death, jump scares. It uses these elements to give the player a heart racing experience.	Outlast is a survival horror, You start as journalist investigating a hospital for the mental ill when you get trap in the hospital and have to try and escape, there are many people in the hospital that have been experimented on and mutilated they can run around the map and some can as you and try to kill you there is also a insane doctor that’s chops you fingers of and you have to escape from him eventually trapping him between the lift and the floor as the elevator goes down killing him. This games has lots of jump scares gore and atmospheric changes. Its uses very dark slow sounding music to give it a horror game feel.
MMOFPS	MMOFPS OR Massive Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter is an online shooting games where players from all around the world can play on massive servers on the same open world.	Destiny is a MMOFPS. Destiny is a fully online game with a campaign story where other players can drop in and out of the same mission your on and they can help you progress there is also a multiplayer team v.s team  called the crucible which has different matches with different objectives e.g. domination , death match and many more.
Racing	Racing games are games that have different types of cars and race track from all around the world that allows the player to experience theses elements from the comfort of his or her sofa	Froza 5 is an example of a racing game that is develop by Turn 10 studios. All they racing maps were digital map so that they would be as realistic as possible. They also added as many manufactures, makes and types of cars they can to give you a wide variety and choice.  They also have a lot of customization you can do to your cars and there is also a online multiplayer so you can race against you friends and other Online players.
Sandbox RPG	Sandbox RPG are open world which allows the player a Hugh amount of freedom on where there go and what they do. They contain a huge amount of content and lots of secondary content not essential to the main story line but add hours of playing time.	Skyrim is a sandbox RPG its is a fantasy/medieval game with a massive map and lots of places to be found and explored. The pc version of this game offers lots of mods and modding to add more content and different experiences
Construction and management Simulation	Construction and management simulations are types of simulation where you have to build, expand and mange fictional communities or projects.	In SimCity The player is given the task of developing a city while maintaining the happiness of the citizens in your city and keep a stable budget. The player can designate zones for different types of production, residential and community to expand and make you city better. The game also includes natural disasters e.g. bad weather, earthquakes and others.
Traditional fighting games	Traditional fighting games use one on one combat between two players or a player and AI they use chains of button presses to attack the other character and multiple button press as combos for different types of attacks.	Mortal combat is a traditional fighting game that has been develop over a number of years it use lots of characters with different fighting styles, different combos and different special attacks to give the player a variety of choice to use.
Platform	A platform games using little sprites or characters usually 2d top get from point A to point B with obstacles you have to jump over or go under and enemies you have to avoid.	Platform games like Mario have lots of obstacles to jump over, to and under there are enemies you can avoid or try and kill and you can get power up like the ability to throw fire balls Mario also contain different characters e.g. luige, tod, Yoshi and princes peach in the early Mario platform games they all had the same abilities and the same power ups.
Stealth games	Stealth games are games where the player has to complete an objective without being caught or seen	Hit man absolution is a stealth game that gives you lots of option to complete an objective or assonating a target, you can go in guns blazing and kill as many people as you can to complete the objective or you can sneak in quietly and only take out the target which give you more points, you can even find a different way of killing that target rather than getting your hands dirt e.g. poising drinks or foods setting traps or setting someone else up which will get you more points.
Text adventures	Text adventures where games purely based on text and a few pictures. The text would come up with different scenarios e.g. you have come to a fork in the road which path do you take and you respond with your choice.	Zork was a popular text based game in the 1970s. Zork was well like because of its story telling and the sophistication of the text phrases.
Sports game	EA are the main developers of sports games there e.g. football, NHL, NBA, madden and NCCA football	FIFA is EA most popular game. Its is a football game contain all team from around the world plus country’s is also has a game type called ultimate team where players can buy and trade players to make the best team possible to play against other online players team.