With the advent of the internet, more and more opportunities have
come up in many areas such as finance, fashion, marketing, business,
design as well as entertainment. In the entertainment sector, not only
has it helped media marketing, it has also helped the gaming industry,
or specifically the online gaming industry. Online games are played over
the internet from single players all the way to multi players. With
Flash and Java installed in practically all well known web browsers,
websites now can use video, audio and other user interactivity in their
online content.
Some of the very well known online games that has
an established reputation and a loyal following of fans include
WarCraft, Red Alert, Counter Strike, Final Fantasy series, Diner Dash
and a whole lot more. These online games fall into different categories
that gamers identify with. For example, Action and adventure Games are
type of games that involve very elaborate and detailed setting, with
fighting, wars and a quest. Arcade Games are of course found in your
friendly neighborhoods where you put in coins or tokens to play.
Strategy games are identified by stages whereby the player needs to
cleverly strategies his/her games to reach the final episode. Strategy
games take a while to complete. There are also shooting games and sports
games that use football, basketball, golf, tennis and skiing.
With
the internet, a new genre of games has emerged. These new hybrids are
called online RPG games or role playing games as well as free
multiplayer online games. In online role-playing games, it is a game
where the players take on a role of a fictional character. Role playing
games concentrate more on social interaction and collaboration rather
than on competition. this is what sets them apart from conventional
games. This type of games are designed centered around scenarios such as
mafia games and gangster games where there is a game master who
actually is the head honcho, the mafia boss or a drug lord and the other
players are considered his allies, his 'men'. Some of the popular RPG
mafia games are such as The Mafia Boss. The Mafia Boss is actually a
free Multiplayer Online Game, based on the Real Mafia Life so called "La
Cosa Nostra". Players get into the role of being Mafia Don like Al
Capone or John Gotti. Other popular games are such as Fazconi, The Real
Mafia Game.
Apart from mafia games, gangster games are also
popular in the online RPG circuit. In gangster games, it's the survival
of the fittest where strategies, wit and intelligent alliances can win
you the game. Gangster games revolve around steal a nice shiny new
Cadillac, shipping some bootleg booze and getting your gangster buddies
together to rob the local bank. Some examples of gangster online games
are such as Omerta, Lady Gangster, and American Gangster.
Online
games are very popular because they are highly interactive, some are
free, you join in a virtual setting where you can call the shots, you
get to live up to your fantasies and best of all, you meet new people
with the same similar interests as you. Online games, though exciting,
can be very addictive as well.
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