A
multiplayer online game is a
multiplayer video game which can be played via a
game server over the
internet, with other players around the world. Some prominent examples of this include
fighting games (e.g.
Street Fighter IV and
Marvel vs. Capcom 3),
sports games (e.g.
NHL 14), older online games (e.g.
Sega Meganet titles),
first-person shooters (
Battlefield 2,
Resistance 3,
Counter-Strike,
Unreal Tournament,
Quake 3,
Team Fortress 2 and
Call of Duty),
strategy video games (e.g.
Warcraft 3 and
StarCraft or
II), and a subgenre of strategy games called
multiplayer online battle arena (e.g.
Defense of the Ancients,
Heroes of Newerth,
League of Legends,
Dota 2).