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Not all scientists are mad and/or hell-bent on dominating worlds. Some are just your ordinary egghead with a coat.
A Scripted Death is a moment when the player is taken out of control resulting in the characters death
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
When a game usually a shooter gives you a weapon to begin your mission with. Normally they are used infrequently but can be relied on when all options and or ammo are gone i.e. pistols, grenades or knives.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
The first weapon that is acquired in a game. It's usually a handgun or melee weapon, is unbreakabe and carries unlimited ammunition. It's also the perfect "emergency weapon".
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
A trickjumping technique used to increase a player's speed.
Moving to the left or right without rotating the body axis. The technique, also called side-stepping, is useful in FPS games to avoid incoming fire without turning away from a target.
The act of taking one's own life.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
Only in multiplayer!
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
Many games feature storylines about wide, sweeping combat between three radically different factions.
Games that tutorialize the player under the guise of performing a routine check-up on the character.
Unbreakable glass is glass which is impervious to destruction, and is often used to show a story scene without allowing player interference.
In order to circumvent various obstacles, some protagonists must travel through ventilation systems.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
Vortigaunts are an extra-dimensional sentient alien species seen in every Half-Life game to date.
WASD, or WADS, is the most common and often the default setting to move the player character in computer games with a first or third person perspective.
Xfire is a downloadable instant messenger client and Digital Download Store for Windows. It is targeted at gamers and has many features related to gaming.
Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
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