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The recording of data related to player performance or progress in a game. This feature is commonly found in RPGs or competitive multiplayer games. It does not include statistics in sports games, unless related to player performance.
An numeral indication of how much damage a character can sustain. The loss of all hit points results in the death of the character or another penalty.
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
A cutscene that is viewed through the eyes of the protagonist or some other character. POV stands for "point of view".
These are games you don't need a console to play. You plug in a controller to the TV and you're ready to play.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
In text based games, most, if not all the game play, or graphics is created with words.
Games based on literature. This does not include licenses of another adaptation.
Due to crafty camera angles and conveniently placed objects in the environment, the nudity in the scene is obscured from view.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
In a franchise, it entails the second game that takes on a gritty and dark tone to distinguish it from the first.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
A system in which the player is allowed to control multiple characters. Most commonly seen in role playing games. Can also be used to describe party systems in the MMORPG genre, which brings a group of players together to accomplish various tasks.
A widely popular music style, originating from a fusion of blues, R&B, country, and jazz. Includes sub-genres such as punk, heavy metal, synth rock, and pop rock, among others.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
Bonus levels, rounds, or stages give players a chance to gain extra points, powerups, or lives. Occasionally bonus stages will play completely different than the rest of the game, like as a slot machine or pinball minigame.
“Indie” or “independently developed” games are video games which are developed by a studio without the support of an external publisher.
Two or more factions, either with the same or completely different goals, that constantly try to one-up each other. The player is sometimes forced to pick a side to root or work for during the struggle. Other times the rivalry is only mentioned in the plot.
Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.
The political thriller is a story, often action-oriented, that tends to revolve around two or more nations struggling to gain power. Outcomes are usually found through military confrontations, covert wars, and back alley negotiating.
Some games portray cutscenes as portraits of characters talking to each other.
A term used to describe the flow of action in a typical action game, where the pace is pre-defined to feature fast action and require quick reflexes. As the name suggests, these are games where the player character can run and shoot at the same time.
Nuclear war is a conflict in which nuclear weapons are used.
Sequels that have the player controlling a different character than the preceding game(s).
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
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