Video Game Melee

A Video Game Melee is a close combat that is disorganized.

References

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melee Retrieved:2017-5-27.
- Melee (or , French: mêlée ; the French spelling is also quite frequent in English writing) generally refers to disorganized close combat in battles fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts. The French term was first used in English in c. 1640 (a re-borrowing of a lost Middle English melle,but the Old French borrowing survives in medley and meddle). In military aviation, a melee has been described as "[a]n air battle in which several aircraft, both friend and foe, are confusingly intermingled".Lord Nelson described his tactics for the Battle of Trafalgar as inducing a "pell mell battle" focused on engagements between individual ships where the superior morale and skill of the Royal Navy would prevail.

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melee_(gaming) Retrieved:2017-6-25.
- In video gaming, the term melee has been adopted and popularized as a cover-all term for close combat.
  The term was first applied to games in H.G. Wells's 1913 Little Wars, where the author develops a "melee rule" in his war game. It was later popularized by Dungeons & Dragons, which featured a "melee phase" to represent the fighting of characters outside of bows and magic.
  This term still applies to most role-playing games, but is often used in the context of first-person shooter video games to specify a non-ranged attack. This began with the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, which featured a knife that could be selected from the inventory, just like a gun. Because of the risk involved in using a melee weapon, they were typically the most powerful weapons available, in terms of damage. Later, Duke Nukem 3D would include a button that allowed the character to kick enemies while still wielding a gun. A Nintendo franchise called Super Smash Bros. had its second game released in 2001 for the GameCube and used the term "melee" in the title.
  In strategy games, especially real-time strategy, infantry units that do not use ranged weapons are often called melee units.