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It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
The Strogg are the alien race featured in the Quake franchise that want to bring the end to the human race.
The concept of a character leaping forwards or backwards in time.
Tips are usually used throughout the game as a way of showing players features.
A transformation is a different stage or form for something. Usually an upgrade.
Some bosses transition through two or more forms during the course of a fight. Each form has its own abilities and health separate from those of other forms.
A powerful weapon often found near the end of the game that is significantly more powerful than other weapons. It can also be the last weapon in an RPG game that does drastically increased damage compared to previous weapons.
Unbreakable glass is glass which is impervious to destruction, and is often used to show a story scene without allowing player interference.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
An additional difficulty level that becomes unlocked after meeting certain criteria, such as beating the game or dying many times in the same area.
Unlockable gamerpics are a form of reward for completing certain tasks in Xbox 360 games.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
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.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
User Generated Content describes any content the end user produces to add onto the content given by the developer. User Generated Content has grown in popularity, with LittleBigPlanet, Forza Motorsport 3, ModNation Racers and Spore being great examples.
Dreamcast games that include support for the VMU, or Visual Memory Unit; essentially, a memory storage device that doubles as a crude handheld game system.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
The ability to communicate via voice.
The Vore is a three-legged spider creature in Quake that hurls purple homing firepods. Among Quake's normal monsters, it has the second-highest hit points.
The word "voxel" is a portmanteau of "volumetric" and "pixel" (which in turn is a portmanteau of "picture" and "element"). Essentially a three-dimensional cube, they are used to build objects in a virtual space, especially terrain.
A common cheat in multiplayer first-person shooters that allows people to see and/or shoot through solid walls and objects.
Games with organic tissue covering or growing out of the walls (or floor). Typically seen in horror games. This concept does not cover situations where characters are actually inside larger organic beings.
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.
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.
The blood stains or visible bullet holes/knife slashes on a character models body.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
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.
Pressing a button to zoom-in. For example: in a flight combat game or a shooter without iron sights.
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