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The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Players will fight alongside a partner, Sheva.
Often used as a catch-all term for any game's main story-driven mode of play, campaign mode usually refers to a linear sequence of levels with a continuous story and a definite conclusion, playable single-player and sometimes co-operatively.
Games are sometimes divided by chapters, sections, acts, etc.
Sometimes, rather than building a character model from scratch, a developer will sometimes use a real person as a template and use his or her physical attributes to create a similar character model to be used in their video game. In some cases that real reason will appear as themselves in games.
Text profiles that summarize a character's history and their role in a story. Often paired with concept or CG art.
A point within the game whereby the game saves its current state whether it be for the purpose of a more convenient respawn point or a gameplay design (such as in racing).
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
The new badass way to look, as seen on 90% of hit video game covers.
A concept used in many racing and action games in which your vehicle or character is airborne and shot at an awesome angle, often in slow-mo.
Climbing is a common tradition in games, particularly platformers. There is often a particular type of surface that can be climbed, and it has a recognizably different look than other surfaces in the game. Climbing ladders or stairs doesn't count.
CQC and CQB are close range combat techniques.
Limited editions of games that include extra "perks" like Making of DVDs and a nice and shiny tin with extra box art
Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.
An action that is sensitive to context. Like going up to an object and pushing a button, which would normally perform a different action, to interact with it.
Although force feedback is often used in games to indicate such commonalities as when a player character is taking damage or feeling weapon recoil, it is sometimes used in more creative ways, such as providing hints to finding an item or providing emphasis during an otherwise non-interactive cinematic sequence. These games feature more creative uses of rumble than the norm.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
Players can play cooperatively online, the second player uses Sheva.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
An order of large reptiles that encompases the Alligator, Gharial, Caiman and Crocodile families. While dangerous on land, they're pure killing machines in the wet element.
Players must fight against hordes of enemies, though they dont put up much of a fight.
There are many cutscenes in Resident Evil 5.
Cutscenes that do not take into account the specific gear that the player has equipped.
Don't you just love it when a game lets you view all the cutscenes without having to play it all over again? Every game should have this feature.
Darkness is used in games to restrict access, increase tension, or just to set a mood. Often the player has access to a light source that can mitigate its effect.
Many RPGs and survival horror games have the player find diaries written by people that were slowly transforming into monsters or zombies. Somehow, they make sure to keep writing in their diary, right up until they're no longer human, so that the player can read their mindlessly violent final thoughts.
If the player takes too many hits (or sometimes a single hit), the player will die and start over from the last checkpoint.
When an on-screen character gets low on health, their movement is slowed or they walk with a visible limp or slouch.
Decapitation is the removal of the head of a person or animal.
A boss character in a game which shows up again later as a regular enemy.
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