Sunday, August 28, 2011

Exactly What Are Strategy Games?

By Alan Devo


Strategy online games are online games where (as the title suggests) you have to make use of your strategic abilities in order to beat your opposing players. In most strategy video games, you can make different structures make new soldiers and investigate new technologies. Although there are video games which fall under this category which will not genuinely demand much brains, some titles involve many truly complicated movements in order to win. Favorite strategy online games are: Warcraft3, StarCraft: Brood War, Age of Empires and Starcraft 2:Wings of Liberty.

The picture is usually a bit different with strategy video games. Typically they may be less frenzied and give far more room pertaining to logical thinking (of course, the common board games such as chess or Go also include major online playing facilities these days, although they can't actually be identified as multiplayer games since there's very little to no team aspect, it is really just one-on-one most of the time).

A typical example is Warcraft III, that is the most recent in the Warcraft realtime strategy game series by Blizzard. the game is played at the so-called Battlenet, a significant internet gaming center by Blizzard, that also serves various other strategy online games like StarCraft 2.

With Warcraft III you are able to play with both random competitors matched up to you approximately by expertise, sometimes one on one or in teams of up to 4 on 4, or play others in pre-arranged groups. As in FPS games, there are clans in Warcraft, which in this instance are also clearly supported by Battlenet. This plus the quite immediate visibility of another person's level of skill (basically, his win/loss ratio) gives rise to significant competition among committed competitors for the top ladder (ranking) spots. As opposed to geographically standard games such as Counter-Strike with countless thousands of servers, Warcraft offers just a handful of large servers, each for just a certain part of the world (e.g. Americas, Europe, Asia).

Interestingly enough, nearly all strategy games are usually completely outclassed by Asian, especially South Korean, players, where online multiplayer games happen to be a very significant part of the lifestyle for a long time previously. The professional South Korean Starcraft 2 and Warcraft tournaments are major events with hundreds of thousands of live spectators, played out on an exceptionally competitive level, and broadcasted on TV, and the leading gamers have pretty much superstar standing and earnings within the six-figure area and greater.

Since the popular strategy video games are commonly also just round-based, there is certainly not significant room for social interaction apart from an infrequent chat. Strategy gamers are likely a little bit older than FPS gamers on average, mostly between sixteen and thirty-fix in the Western societies.




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