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According to Lindop, what separates this title from the rest of the games in the genre is the "escalating scale" of command players acquire.

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  1. noun A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent” (Helen Kitchen).
  2. noun A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: "his six String Quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's” (Time).
  3. noun A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

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  • According to Lindop, what separates this title from the rest of the games in the genre is the "escalating scale" of command players acquire. —  G4TV - The Feed
  • Hong Kong action cinema, the genre is associated with swordplay epics sprinkled with mysticism. —  Anime Nano!
  • The recent book New Media Art by Rhizome founder Mark Tribe and art critic Reena Jana anthologizes some of the innovative artists in the field, documenting a moment when the genre is at its apex (or over, according to some). —  Cool Hunting
  • As a house music fan one of the nice things I like about this genre is the ability to purchase a compilation disc and get some of your favorite songs and best artist all in one whack. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • My lecturer said that horror as a genre is all about society dialoguing with itself about its fears at the time and made a pretty convincing case for —  feminist blogs
 

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  1. French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, kind, genus. mode, style, etc.; particularly in the arts, with a distinct epithet; from Latin genus (gener-), kind: see genus and gender, n.
 

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