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Game » consists of 3 releases. Released May 31, 1998
Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Plotting and scheming, usually for wealth or power.
Dialogue trees are a feature through which the player selects responses from a list of choices, eliciting reactions from NPCs and determining the path of the conversation and story.
The national investigative arm of the American government, the FBI (as commonly abbreviated) is tasked with upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States, and to providing leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
Games based on TV shows, which includes live-action and cartoons.
Greatest hits is a general term for re-releases of games which have sold a certain number of copies, as part of a program managed by the console manufacturer.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
Cutscenes involving real actors on a set or in front of a chroma key screen.
CD or DVD based games that are shipped in a single package with 2 or more discs due to limited storage capacity.
Point and click is an interface featured in a specific kind of adventure game, where players click on objects and characters to interact with them.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
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