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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Games that support the Wii Balance Board.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
Any spoken words conjunct with and descriptive of on-screen action . This is prevalent in most sports games.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
A variant on regular golf in which Frisbee like discs are thrown.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
Certain EA Sports games allow the player to use a photo of themselves to create an in-game avatar with their facial likeness.
Experience Points are part of a character advancement system commonly found in RPGs. These points are generally gained by defeating an enemy or completing a task.
Face Mapping allows the player to insert their facial likeness onto a character within the game. It has become a recurring feature in a few EA Sports games, such as the FIFA and Tiger Woods franchises.
GamersGate is a client-free digital distribution service.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
Golf is a sport in which golf balls are hit with golf clubs in holes on a course. The fewest swings wins.
The in-game announcer is a non-character disembodied voice commonly heard in arcade games, first-person shooters and real-time strategy games. They announce game modes, multi-kills, and game-changing events.
An instantreplay is a gameplay element typically associated with sports games, and widely made popular with the Madden Franchise. Instant replays allow players to go back and view gameplay footage, occasionally from varying points of view.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Games with support for the Wii Motion Plus peripheral.
Start doesn't mean "A". Start means "start", son. Kids these days...
New Purchase Incentives is a business strategy established by publishers to encourage consumers to buy games new. It is also primarily used as a means of profiting from used game sales where they otherwise could not.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
PlayStation Move is a motion control system for the PlayStation 3 console, allowing for fluid control of objects in a simulated 3D space.
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Rain can heavily increase the atmosphere of a video game. Some games use it to add detail to an environment, while other games use it to make it difficult to see.
Games that include real photography on the game's cover.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
Games that for some reason or another, include a slip cover. Usually Collectors Editions or first run games.
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