The term "fighting game" refers to a video game genre that involves a battle between pairs of fighters using game aspects such as blocking, grappling, counter-attacking and chaining attacks together into "combos." Fighting games are often referred to as "versus fighting games."
Games often show on-screen fighters from a side perspective, and even 3d fighting games are mostly played inside a 2d plane of motion with sidestepping and jumping. This involves both close-quarters and long-distance fighting. These games have typically shown combatants from a side perspective, but many of the newest fighting games in this genre now employ numerous points of view to depict the action.