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Game » consists of 17 releases. Released Aug 23, 2011
Umbrella term for any alien species with elongated limbs, enlarged heads and large black eyes.
Guards guard stuff, block doors, and sometimes arrest you.
Games in which players are guided through the game by characters via radio communication. Extremely popular narrative device and game mechanic in the current generation of video games.
Taking advantage of computers and machinery as weapons, in solving puzzles, etc. or otherwise changing up gameplay.
In some games the protagonist goes through unwanted surgery, often in first person view.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
A heavy is a class of enemy that can withstand more damage, thanks to body armor, a larger physique, or other characteristics. They are often armed with heavier weapons.
When a character or group of characters does something extremely brave on behalf of another character or group of characters, knowing that they will get killed or seriously injured in the process.
Hostages exist to be saved, guarded, and occasionally executed.
Sometimes a character will come up on your HUD to tell you an important piece of information. This usually consists of voice acting, occasionally Full Motion Video, and is pretty useful when you need to learn about things like doing barrel rolls.
Illuminati or the "The New World Order" the evil religious cult that's hell bent on controlling the world.
A school of game design often associated with Looking Glass Studios, in which the player is free to act as they choose in a richly simulated world. The term was coined by Warren Spector in his Deus Ex post-mortem.
The use of everyday objects as weapons of destruction, often combination.
Sending or receiving fake email inside a game.
A status of decreased cognition caused by a substance such as alcohol.
As games become bigger and more technically advanced, games increasingly require users to go through a small initial install before playing.
A plot device where innocent characters are killed. Sometimes players forced to watch it happen and can do nothing to prevent it.
The ability of a player to interact with items or geometry in the game world, whether for story or gameplay reasons or simply for immersion.
With the internet in full swing, some games reflect its leak into popular culture by making references to the World Wide Web.
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
A game mechanic where the player's possessions occupy a certain amount of space on a matrix; inventory items can be manually manipulated to fit within the grid.
The ability for the player to become unseen, from basic camouflage to fully vanishing from sight.
Usually found in adventure games, when players combine two or more items to create one or more new items.
Take an item and throw it at the enemy.
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 Knock out or KO is when, example being a fighting game, one of the players is sent into a state of unconsciousness.
A feature used in many stealth games to provide the player some indication of where the enemy is searching for them.
When the title of the game does not appear immediately at the beginning of the game, but rather after the first mission or prologue.
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