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Some first-person games that wish to immerse the player in the experience more will go as far as to include full body awareness, or the ability to see the player character's body when looking down.
Full metal jackets, or FMJs, are special metal coatings used on many large-caliber bullets. The entire soft metal bullet (usually lead) is completely, or near-completely encased by the harder metal jacket. They allow the bullet to pierce through thicker surfaces while also increasing firepower.
They beep when you walk through them!
The second annual Game of the Year awards from Giant Bomb.
A glitch is an action performed within the bounds of a game engine that was not intended by the game's developers. Glitches are often performed by the player, though they can also occur independently.
A government is a group of people who are responsible for the running of a country
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
A condition where characters have differently colored eyes. It could be used to indicate wisdom, insanity, or split personality.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
Hostages exist to be saved, guarded, and occasionally executed.
Similar to the Wilhelm Scream, this is an often used voice sample heard in many games, e.g. Starcraft and Half-Life 2. It is also known as the "TIE fighter scream" for it's similarity to the sound the passing fighters make in Star Wars: A New Hope.
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
A standard in nearly all competitive online shooters, the Kill Feed is the live on-screen update of the kills in an multiplayer game, providing updates as to whom is killing whom, as well as other important events.
A number of kills without a suffering a death.
A Kill Streak Reward is a small advantage over other players after a certain number kills are attained in a multiplayer match. This concept was popularized by, but is not limited to the Call of Duty franchise.
The opposite of open-ended gameplay, linear gameplay uses scripted events, Quick time events, cut scenes, and a restricted path to tell a story exactly how the writer intends, and control elements of the action.
Loading Screens are specific screens that are displayed while a game is loading resources so that the player has something to distract them while the game loads. Loading Screens can be images, text or even mini-games - and sometimes a combination of all three.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
When the President wants to go for a burger, you know that all your cake is a lie.
Mercenaries, Soldiers for Hire, have been found fighting in conflicts since the dawn of human warfare. These hired guns show a desire to turn their talent in the art of death to a more profitable profession.
Armed forces. The arm of government that deals with fighting wars and protecting a nation from external or internal threats
All militaries have some kind of uniform.
A militia is a group of regular citizens that work, often without pay, to enforce laws and provide defense for a community.
For games that feature a mission briefing before gameplay.
Some action-oriented games make use of motion capture technology to make character's movements realistic.
Special ops branch of the US Navy and former or current employer of many game characters.
Optional Censorship gives one the ability to remove or obscure content that is possibly offensive or objectionable.
Options menus give you the option to change anything the game lets you change. Whether you want subtitles or not, sound effects or not, the game to be harder or not, anything you want that the game lets you change, you can change in the options menu.
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