Power Bombcast: The Skin Doesn't Quite Fit
Giant Bomb Presents
Game Mess Mornings 05/03/24
GrubbSnax
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.04
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.27
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.20
Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Aug 26, 2014
The First-Person Regain Consciousness is regularly seen in First-Person-Shooters.
Flashbacks take a player into a flashback sequence. Often playable, but not always.
Some rooms have faulty lights that flick on and off. Often this is used in horror games to help build an unsettling atmosphere.
Enemies that prefer to keep a distance to the ground, and swoop down occasionally to do some damage.
A feature on Xbox Series consoles that allows backwards compatible games to run at a higher framerate than on the original consoles.
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.
Games based on literature. This does not include licenses of another adaptation.
An Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live feature that lets you purchase and download full Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC games through the Live Marketplace.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Giant rats are like regular rats but significantly bigger. Giant rats are the first enemy in many role playing games.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Derived from the Spanish word for "little war", guerrilla warfare is waged by a small and mobile armed force against a larger, more regimented force. It typically involves the use of ambushes, sabotage, and other offensive tactics meant to overcome an enemy's greater numbers.
The smoke that rises out the barrel of a gun.
When a conscious character perceives something that either does not exist or is a contorted reality manifested by the character's unstable psyche.
HD collections are multiple games in a franchise that have been remastered to comform to HD standards and then put on a single disc.
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
Rooms that are either invisible or extremely hidden. Players are rewarded with health, easter eggs, weapons or traps.
A console game is high definition if it operates at a resolution of at least 720p, or 1280x720. A console able to achieve this resolution is HD-capable. For a variety of reasons, the term does not apply to PC games.
"Horde" is a type of multiplayer game mode in which players battle co-operatively against increasingly difficult waves of computer-controlled enemies.
Games which contain either animals crossed with other animals or animal/human creatures.
Whether it be a close up shotgun blast, far away sniper rifle, explosive, or backstab, the "one hit kill" is a popular kill strategy. Usually hard to master and even harder to avoid, the instant kill is loved and hated by gamers everywhere.
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.
The act of obtaining information through questioning.
A framing device for storytelling in which the main character is recounting the events of the game's plot (the actual gameplay) to someone as a flashback while they are being interrogated.
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.
Rather than utilitarian names like "Level 3" or "Warehouse", many games give each level a unique title that has some relevance to its content.
The Librarian is a monster which appears throughout the depository section of Metro 2033. They are extremely fast and very resilient, a major threat to the player during this section of the game.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment