videogame_simulation

=Videogmame Simulation= toc

Videogame simulations aim to simulate diferent experiences that ordinary people would never get the chance to experience in the real world. For example flying an aicraft or fighting a war. An individual cannot simply fly an aricraft without proper training, knowledge or skills. In simulations, anyone can fly an aircraft just by knowing the basic commands and directions.

Simulation is also known as “sim game,” game status or mixed game. Maening it’s a game that contains a mixture of strategy, chance, and skills that simulate several aspects of reality. For example the game Sims, Sim City or Rollecosater Tycoon. These games ocntain model economies that can be used towards learning or education in contrast, games like San Andreas or Halo cannot be considred as an education tool. In Sim City, the player takes on the role of a city mayor with no amount of spending money on health care, food, business and so forth. You then have people to represent and satisfy and you must figure out a way (strategy) to get money or get your self out of debt, so the mayor can then introduce taxes and so forth. The user gets to become or play god in the game. You build your own economy by making decisions that will affect everyone with in that world.

**Soldiers/Millitary**
"The technology in games has facilitated a revolution in the art of warfare," says David Bartlett, the former chief of operations at the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office Wired Magazine says: it's one part Risk, one part The Sims and one part raw supercomputing power. It's also the tool that could one day give the U.S. military the upper hand in urban conflicts akin to the ones currently taking place in Iraq. Apparently American soldiers training in Iraq have become increasingly better at doing their jobs because of simulators. Military leaders boasts at how real and advanced simulators can be. (This reminds me of X-Men when they train) Not only that, but it also gives the soldiers a peek into the future by introducing tools and weaponry that does not exist into their combat scenerios. Sgt. Sinque Swales, a combat engineer in Iraq looks back “It feels like I was in a big video game. It didn't even faze me, shooting back. It was just natural instinct”



**Pilots**
Microsoft flight simulator carries the similar plan real airports in the world have. You can easily fly your own plane from Toronto Pearson Airport to L.A.X and have the exact same co-ordinates, runway and setting as the real.



**God Games**
A very popular subgenre of simulations are god games, which includes games like Populous, The Sims (as diccussed earlier), Sim Ant, Earth. These types of games rarely have set goals and allows the player to interact and surveil the place.

**Economic Simulation Games**
It attempts to represent a type of ecomomy or business with in the game. For example you could own a store and must learn to manage it through strategy, You hire your own employees by looking at their resumes, and you also have to order supplies, deal with employees calling in sick (because it does happen in reali life) Some examples are Startopia and Railroad Tycoon.

Computer Simulation Games: A to Z
18 Wheels of Steel Acros Microsoft Flight Simulat 911 Paramedic Microsoft Flight Simulat Aces High Monopoly Tycoon Age of Empires Age of Sail MoonBase Commander Airlines 2 Moto Racer 3 Airport Tycoon Movies, The Alpha Centauri MVP Baseball 2005 Apache Havoc NASCAR Racing 2003 Season Austerlitz Big Biz Tycoon Pharaoh Black and White Playboy: The Mansion "Black and White 2" Political Tycoon Caesar Port Royale Caesar IV Railroad Tycoon Capitalism II Car Tycoon Restaurant Empire Casino Empire Rock Manager Casino Mogul Rollercoaster Tycoon Championship Manager Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Combat Flight Simulator 3 Silent Hunter3 Combat Mission Corporate Machine, The SimCity 2000 SimCoaster Desperate Housewives X-Plane Madden NFL 2006 Xtreme Air Racing Madden NFL 2007 Zoo Tycoon 2