Jo Clay at Strange Agency is reporting that female gamers don?t mind confrontational games, as long as they have a story to back them up. What? You mean women actually like first person shooters? I kid...I know all too well. I got sniped by a woman the other day while fragging in a Prey deathmatch. I never saw her red beam situated right on my head. It was a good kill.

From the article:

WOMEN enjoy shooting computer monsters just as much as men do, providing the violence is balanced by a good story.

That is the finding of Jo Clay at games analysis firm Strange Agency in Middlesbrough, UK. Clay used software developed at the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough to analyse the 34 best games as listed by 76 female gamers.

The software, called Strange Analyst, builds a profile of each game by trawling through online reviews and extracting key words. Clay found women prefer games with confrontation and attack, investigations and puzzles - and a good story line. "Many developers believe that the games females play are confined to those like Barbie," says Clay. "In fact, women like shooters, as long as they have a story."