The power of action games lies in their psychological themes. The play requires the person to get around a problem by use of powerful animals and tools like pistols. They borrow much from action movies where stars have to connive conspiracy theories that end up in a vivacious solution.
Action games involve the use of pistols to hit targets while spying. The player has to execute the espionage and get away before discovery. One has also to go shooting through enemy lines stylistically for close escapes. Earning of points depends on the success of the player in carrying out the mission successfully by employing clever techniques. Missions involving use of dynamite requires the player to target landmarks by placing the bomb in the most appropriate nooks to achieve maximum blasting result. Some of these games involve marine animals like sharks that indiscriminately kill anything around their niches and also those without.
The philosophical theme is also touched whereby a religious authority improvises a way to save sinners. The main requirement is to create a silent conspiracy that will keep the intelligence of the rescue hidden from the outer world. Others have players trying to escape from experimenting doctors who have crazy missions behind their white gowns.
At last but not the least, three of my favorite action games:
- Half Life (original, two, E1, E2)
- Quake 3
- Modern Warfare 2