Generality
Typically, videogames recreate environments and virtual situations in which the gamer can control one or more characters (or any other element of said environment), to achieve one or more objectives within certain rules.
Depending on the video game, a game can dispute it a single person against the machine, two or more people on the same machine, or multiple players through a LAN or online network via Internet, competing collaboratively against the machine or with each other.
There are videogames of many types. Some of the most representative genres are video games of action, role, strategy, simulation, sports or adventure.