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Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult. It is therefore more accurate to describe a particular game as having a certain ''degree'' of strategic elements, as in being mainly based around strategic principles. Strategy (and Tactics ) are usually contrasted with '' Luck '' , the outcome of luck based games relying on probability. Games exist on a continuum from pure skill to pure chance, with strategic games usually towards the skill end of the spectrum. The word "strategy" is borrowed from a military jargon. It originally refers to a planning at a very high level and often strategy games deal rather planning in smaller scale for which a word "tactics" is used in military context. ABSTRACT STRATEGY In Abstract Strategy games, the game is only loosely tied to a real-world theme, if at all. The mechanics do not attempt to simulate reality, but rather serve the internal logic of the game. To win, the player must think about the problem, rather than the graphical representation of the situation. Chess , Checkers , and Go are excellent examples. SIMULATION This type of game is an attempt to capture the decisions and processes inherent to some real-world situation. Most of the mechanics are chosen to reflect what the real-world consequences would be of each player action and decision. Abstract games cannot be cleanly divided from simulations and so games can be thought of as existing on a continuum of almost pure abstraction (like Abalone ) to almost pure simulation (like Strat-o-Matic Baseball ). REAL-TIME STRATEGY Usually applied only to certain computer strategy games, the moniker " Real-time Strategy " indicates that the action in the game is continuous, and players will have to make their decisions and actions within the backdrop of a constantly changing game state. Very few non-computer strategy games are real-time; one example is Icehouse . The game considered the father of RTS games is '' Dune II '', by Westwood Studios , and was followed by their seminal '' Command & Conquer ''. Cavedog's '' Total Annihilation '' ( 1997 ), Blizzard 's '' Warcraft '' ( 1994 ) series and '' StarCraft '' (1998), and Ensemble Studios ' '' Age Of Empires '' ( 1997 ) series and '' Age Of Mythology '' ( 2002 ) are some of the most popular RTS games, also online games as NukeZone can be considered belonging in this genre. WAR GAME War Game s are simulations of historical or hypothetical 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. Some games of this type will use physical models of detailed terrain and miniature representations of people and equipment to depict the game state. These games are frequently hexagon-based. A popular wargame with physical models is '' Warhammer 40,000 ''. '' Diplomacy '' and '' Global Diplomacy '' are also strategic war games. REAL-TIME TACTICS Sharing feature of the simulation and war game categories, , the Close Combat series, and the Total War series. TURN-BASED The term " Turn-based Strategy Game " (TBS) is usually reserved for certain computer strategy games, to distinguish them from real-time computer strategy games. A player of a turn-based game is allowed a period of analysis before committing to a game action. The most notable games of this genre are the '' Civilization '', '' Heroes Of Might And Magic '', '' Jagged Alliance '', '' Total War '', '' Master Of Orion '' and '' X-COM '' series. TBS games come in two flavors, differentiated by whether players make their plays simultaneously or take turns. The former types of games are called simultaneously-executed TBS games, with '' Diplomacy '' a notable example. The latter games fall into the player-alternated TBS games category, and are subsequently subdivided into (a) ranked, (b) round-robin start, and (c) random, the difference being the order under which players take their turns. With (a), ranked, the players take their turns in the same order every time. With (b), the first player is selected according to a Round-robin policy. With (c), Random , the first player is, of course, randomly selected. Almost all non-computer strategy games are turn-based; however, the Personal Computer Game market trend has lately inclined more towards Real-time games. GOD GAME In God Game s the player is in more or less absolute control of the world and his subjects. There are usually challenges set to overcome with the power wielded by the player. Examples are Populous , SimEarth and Black & White . ECONOMIC SIMULATORS Economic Simulation Game s are simulations of businesses or economies. Examples are Railroad Tycoon and Capitalism . CITY BUILDING City-building Game s is a specialised but prominent subset of economic simulation games, where players, normally from a point-of-view high in the sky, can build and manage a simulated city. City building games normally do not support online or Hotseat play. The most notable games of this genre are the '' Simcity '' by Maxis and the City Building Series by Impressions Games . City building games do not usually have objectives, except those set in the players mind by the game. SEE ALSO |
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