Action Computer games

If you are born as a boy, you would know that action is your middle name. And in today’s world when you can’t just go out and hit someone for fun, or show that anger on the fat boy that bullied you in school, you resort to action computer games, or just find any another reason to play them. These online video games provide complete entertainment and the adrenalin that makes you keep playing them again and again. These games that are packed with a high dose of action are for those who have a "never say die" kind of attitude.

Action computer games have come a long way through evolution and over time has gained enormous popularity among the gamers’ community. Action computer games belong to those genre of games that can give the player a realistic feeling and involves the likes of wrestling, fictional adventures, space travels, fighting, star wars, and other situational games. More often than not these types of games come with a realistic story line and are very often quite rich in animation as well as graphics.

Statistics say that action computer games are more popular among the gamers’ community than any other genre of games. Action computer games these days have become more interactive compared to the older versions where one had just to go ahead and kill the opponent. An action computer game can be a single player or a multiplayer game. Games that have a very engaging story line are usually single player games, but there are a lot of games that can have more than one players. To go up against the computer bots is one thing, but games that involve one on one duels are even more popular as they allow the gamers to prove their supremacy over the others. For single player games, an engaging story line accompanied with effective narration keeps the players hands glued to their console.

Nowadays, a great variety of action computer games are coming up in the market. Although a great number of these games can be played on PCs, there are a few games that are custom designed for gaming consoles like the PS2 or the Xbox. Gamers get the ultimate pleasure of playing such action computer games on the console rather than on the PCs owing to the dedicated graphics and sound system built into these gadgets. The graphics are so advanced that the characters in the games seem so real as if seeing a movie. But the most popular action computer games found online are PC based and only few are console based.

Among these online video games played on the computer, games like the WWF have gained huge momentum as they can be played online and one on one. Apart from these, recent times have seen the emergence of freeware games. There are thousands of freeware games available on the internet for download or online play that promise to keep the player on the edge. Most of the game lovers nowadays prefer to play action games online by creating socializing forums and worldwide gaming competitions held to recognize and acknowledge the best of the gamers.