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Elite and specially trained/equipped military troops and law enforcement tasked with carrying out specific and dangerous/sensitive objectives beyond the remit of regular military personnel. Many games feature special forces operators or units as protagonists or enemies.
The ability to see the world in a different way. Reveals paths, secrets, enemies, among other things.
Spies are the masters of espionage. They're also (usually) quite adept at the art of stealth, disguise, and assassination.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
Using stealth often requires the player to accomplish their objective without being detected by enemies. Methods of detection can vary from game to game, and can be based on an enemy's line of sight, how quiet the player is, or even how the player interacts with the environment.
Stealth kills are special kills in video games that usually occur when the AI is not aware of the threat of the player.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
A series of Steam features related to cross-platform play, including cross-buy, cross-play, and Linux compatibility layers.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
Popularized by Splinter Cell: Conviction during its development, this technique involves projecting information, such as objectives and controls, onto the surfaces of a virtual environment.
Also known as corpse-humping, tea-bagging is a slang term in video games when after a player has slain another player or NPC, they move their character over the dead character's body and crouch up and down repeatedly, adding a humiliating, and often humorous, factor to the character's death.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
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.
Not simply a plot twist, a Tomato Surprise is a narrative trope where a momentous plot detail, which is already known by the principle character(s), is kept from the audience until a critical point in the story. It is the opposite of Dramatic Irony, which is where the viewer knows something the characters do not.
A reward system for Ubisoft games.
The naval arm of the United States armed forces.
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.
Uplay is a service created by Ubisoft to provide an experience similar to the trophies/achievements offered by Sony and Microsoft respectively.
The ability to watch/use video surveillance devices in a game.
A person who goes outside of the law to punish those who have committed an act of injustice. Their methods usually cause them to be perceived as criminals.
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.
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.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
Pressing a button to zoom-in. For example: in a flight combat game or a shooter without iron sights.
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