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Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Mar 16, 2010
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.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
Survival is a concept that signifies that the player's life is constantly in jeopardy.
Real-Time Polygonal Tessellation is a method of drawing polygonal models. A dynamic process, tessellation renders and dumps triangular polygons in proportion to distance and level-of-detail. It is a flagship feature of DirectX 11 and OpenGL.
What lies ahead, and is distant from the present.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
A government that restricts the flow of information, or willingly subjugates it's people.
A mechanical system designed to capture or cause harm. Either the player can set traps for their enemies or others set them for the player.
This describes a section where the player is locked in one place, using a large gun mounted on a platform which itself is usually moving.
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.
In order to circumvent various obstacles, some protagonists must travel through ventilation systems.
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.
You're halfway through the game or more, everything's going great. You've got tons of weapons and crap and BAM! Flash grenade! You wake up later captured, off to either be executed, interrogated, etc. Often, you've lost all of your weapons as well. You sir, have just woken up captured.
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.
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.
Realistically rendered water can really immerse you in a game. Just don't try to dive into your TV!
Weapon bob refers to the sway of a held weapon when a player is in motion in a first-person shooter.
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.
No longer just a pastime for bored individuals, the simple act of whistling has played an integral part in games such as the Splinter Cell series.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
A subscription service from Microsoft on Xbox platforms and Windows 10. Described as "Netflix for video games", users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles or buy to own them at a discount price.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
Pressing a button to zoom-in. For example: in a flight combat game or a shooter without iron sights.
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