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The phenomenon of an enemy who is heavily resistant to damage (or even invulnerable) everywhere on its body - except for its back.
This concept is featured in games that have a character wearing a helmet or mask with a skull graphic or picture on it, or else a helmet styled to resemble a skull. This does not pertain to characters who actually have skulls for heads.
When a character grabs a ladder and slides down it instead of climbing down.
Eliminating a target with a long-range rifle.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
A gameplay mechanic which allows the player to move faster than the normal speed. Usually for a set amount of time.
Suppressing fire is firing your weapon at the enemy to force them to stay in cover, to reduce their mobility and their ability to return fire and reconnoitre your position. Impossible to do right in games, due to the fearlessness caused by players not feeling pain when they are shot.
Some games force you to try and survive as long as possible without losing, or tasks you with surviving a certain number of "waves" of enemies before granting you victory.
A flaw that occurs when a games graphics engine fails to preload textures as the player is in view of them.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
A species of striped feline.
Sometimes a co-op game allows the various players to choose their own individual difficulty levels. This is typically implemented by higher difficulty levels causing that player to be able to deal damage less easily and to also receive more damage from enemies.
Unattainable or broken achievements are achievements that no longer unlock, never unlocked from the start, or require an online component to a game that no longer exists.
Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of the Unreal engine, and is base for numerous games, such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and Roboblitz.
A credit screen that cannot be skipped or interrupted. No matter how hard you try, you'll have to sit through them.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
Avoid getting straight to the fun in favor of learning who developed, published, and provided middleware for this game.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
An in-game interface designed to look like video footage.
A visual obstruction is an extra layer added to the player's viewpoint. Most common in first person games to add to the notion that you are looking through a character's eyes. Obstructions include blood, water and ice crystals.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
The ability to communicate via voice.
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
Modifications can include, but are not exclusive to, upgrades. Modifications can be superficial changes such as color.
First seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, this style of gameplay helps manage balance in shooters by forcing players to choose between weapons
Found in many First Person Shooters or Role Playing Games, the player has the ability to swap their current weapon for another found on the ground or in their inventory.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
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