Gun Games

There are many gun games on the market, often referred to as first person shooters or shooting games. Whatever they’re called, gun games make up a big share of the market, but have come from humble beginnings. What made many gun games so popular and continues to make them popular is the combination of a solid story with plenty co-play or online play available.

The Roots

For many players today, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Goldeneye 007 were household mainstays in the 80s and 90s. Their replay value was high and with the addition of Xbox and the Halo series, first person shooters became highly successful. What made Halo so popular was its foray into online gaming. Although many players chose to hook up their Xbox’s via an interconnecting cable, Halo 2 really took the next step and made the leap into online gaming. This became really popular as it was released at about the same time as the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The Next Generation

Games today have figured out that with the flooded gun game market, it’s important to continually add new content via a marketplace like Xbox or store like the PS3. After more than a year since being released, Battlefield Bad Company 2 continues to release new material in order to stay in direct competition with, in this case, Call of Duty: Black Ops. After no more than three months, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is seeing its first expansion pack. Many consumers buy this content separately which also allows gun game companies to continually make money off of one game year around.

Gun games have made great strides in the past 30 years, but without such highly successful games like the Nintendo 64’s Goldeneye, gun games like Halo, Half-Life and Gears of War may have looked quite different than they do today.

What is Your Strategy?

Playing free online games can be fun and silly; but it can also sharpen your reasoning skills and powers of observation. Who knew? Here’s what I found while looking for strategy games on each of the top three online sites.

The Strategy of Addicting Games Online

All time favorite strategy games on the first site numbered no less than 50; and that’s just the all time favorites. Army/war settings, school/classroom, racing and several strangely named miscellaneous games were among the selections. Some of these games seemed a bit childish in their animation which immediately steers me away. Of course if you have children whose brains you want to tease, these would probably be a great choice. I, personally, enjoy having to search, reason and solve my way through castles, graveyards or detective stories. Those games are out there (more adult themed) but I couldn’t find them.

Bgames Strategy is in It’s Numbers

91 strategy games take up almost 3 pages on the free online games website, Bgames. Many of them followed suit along with AG’s strategy games but I was very pleased to find more of the adult themed (less cartoony) games centered on castles, wizards, and the occult. Some of these games tend to take a long time to load; Bgames even warns you of this ahead of time so that you’re not sitting around waiting if you don’t have the time. This is due to the fact that some of these strategy games are huge! Detailed special effects, involved story lines and challenging mind bogglers, like Rome, weren’t built in a tiny little amount of time.

The last site had no results when I executed a search for strategy games, which is unfortunate. Apparently they’re a little foggy on what kinds of games are all the rage.