Fun Games for Boys to Play

Urban Terror

• Urban Terror is a free online video game. It&'s a first person shooter game in which the player is placed on one of two teams: red or blue, which correspond roughly to terrorists and police. The two battle each other for objectives such as capturing the flag or simply fighting it out to the last man. It is similar to the popular online game CounterStrike.

Paintball

• Urban Terror can be fun, but why sit in front of a computer pretending to have gunfights when you can go out with friends and do the same thing with paintball guns? Paintball is a sport in which each player uses an air-powered gun to fire small balls of brightly colored paint at his friends. It&'s a popular game for young men, but be sure you always play with appropriate safety equipment and on dedicated paintball fields.

Final Fantasy X

• Final Fantasy X is a role playing game from Japan for the Sony PlayStation 2. Players control a cast of characters as they explore a fantasy world and battle the Leviathan-like monster "Sin" and its minions. Be sure you have the time to spare: The story line of this epic and critically acclaimed game can take as much as 100 hours to see to its completion.

Axis and Allies

• Axis and Allies is a board game similar to the classic game Risk. Each player takes control of one or more of the major powers in World War II and must battle to victory. Unlike Risk, players can invest in a wide variety of units, from infantry to submarines, each of which grants them a special benefit in the battle for world supremacy. In addition, players construct factories and invest resources into technological advancements to give their soldiers the edge they need to win the war. There is even an video game version called TripleA.

Pokemon

• This collectible card game and video game series casts the player as a Pokemon, or monster trainer. The monsters are collected and traded with other players. The game is played by battling the monsters against each other to see whose collection of monsters is the most powerful and which trainer is the most skilled.