Sci-Fi: usually set in space, involving ships, aliens and planets
War: usually set in World War settings, or modern conflicts, or even creating conflict, the main feature being, "real" guns and real settings (usually)
Horror: basically a game that makes the player "squirm" weither it messes with you head, or makes you jump, or is just completely crazy, if it makes you scream inside, its horror ;)
Fantasy: (often) a fictional world/setting, usually involving monsters (such as orcs or dragons) swords, magic and often bright, vibrant (and usually unrealistic) characters and story.
In my opinion many of the games and genres mix and blent in various games, (i.e. crysis could be shown as war and Sci-Fi; or dead space is horror and Sci-Fi)
So in war we have games such as counter-strike, metal gear soild etc different types of war games (FPS and stealth) but war nonetheless (anyone who knows games will know that most types of gameplay can be made into each genre, with only some having difficulty).
In the Horror we have: Dead Space, Alone in the dark, Alien and Bioshock
In Sci-Fi: Crysis, Too human, Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass effect.
Fantasy: Final fantasy crysis core, heavenly sword, the witcher, soul calibur 4, fire emblem, guild wars, assassins creed, devil may cry 4, ninja gaiden 2, Prince of Persia.
As i said many games make use of several genres, however most seem to have an overarching theme; i.e. Mass Effect is set in a Sci-Fi setting, Counter-Strike is modern war, Alone in the dark is... a man... alone in the dark... scary... and finally! the witcher is set ina fantasy world with monsters sorcery and the like.
(fantasy being my personal favourite, but i enjoy all forms of genre when its done well :)
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