Tony Hawk: RIDE Concepts

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.

Annual Game Installments have a new entry in the the series every year. Some include Madden, Guitar Hero, and NBA Live.

An ability which require a person to uphold an exeptional equilibrioception.

Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.

Often used to to make an otherwise mediocre game look appealing. The celebrity tie-in is similar to the Movie tie-in or product tie-in. Unlike the other two, however, celebrity tie-in games usually have an original story, and is not based off of a movie said celebrity has appeared in.

Games that use a cell phone as the menu/interface/pause screen. All show a battery indicator, which usually never drains, and sometimes a signal strength indicator, which may flicker or change as an aesthetic touch, but usually has no impact on gameplay.

Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.

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.

Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.

When a character is killed, the fallen body's ragdoll will fail and the corpse will start to freak out and flip about spastically. Mostly occurs in open world/sand-box games with a fair deal of Open World Jank.

Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.

The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 2-4.

The ability for an athlete or character, especially in extreme sports or platforming games, to rotate their bodies in a frontal or backward motion, creating inertia that propels them into a flipping motion.

The idea of taking an existing franchise and starting over from scratch, overhauling the gameplay and sometimes going so far as to remove it from any connection to previous games in a series. Such is sometimes done when attempting to revitalize a franchise that is showing its age and has fallen into disfavor.

Gamescom 2009 was a video game convention that took place in Cologne, Germany from August 19 - August 23, 2009.

A technique used in most extreme sports that allows the athlete to twist their bodies while still maintaining possession of their board. Applicable to both snowboarding and skateboarding.

Depending on your perspective it can be art or vandalism. It is the practice of painting, etching, stickering, pasting, or in any way marking public or private property with lettering or images for a variety of different ends.

Grinding is the ability to slide along the edge of an object with the trucks of a skateboard, the sole of a rollerblade, or the pegs of a BMX bike.

Havok Physics (Havok) is a physics API developed by Irish company Havok and released in 2000. It is used in video games as a physics engine, allowing for realistic interactions between in-game entities.

Sending or receiving fake email inside a game.

It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto building, onto platforms, or onto skulls, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.

These games are based off of an established license, such as a movie or comic. Examples are the James Bond and Spider-Man franchises.

Many games incorporate licensed music from popular bands for their soundtrack.

Some games will give the player advice during loading screens. Most of the time the advice is useless and/or extremely obvious.

Loading Screens are specific screens that are displayed while a game is loading resources so that the player has something to distract them while the game loads. Loading Screens can be images, text or even mini-games - and sometimes a combination of all three.

Games that support for Nintendo's little characters the Mii!

A post processing effect that blurs and streaks the entire frame. Loosely based on the behavior of real-world optics.

The Natas Spin is achieved when a skateboarder spins on the spot whilst perched on a narrow object.

When a crowd is present in a game (often invisible) that does nothing more than cheer or boo, depending on your performance.

Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.

The use of peripherals has vastly changed the way we play games. From simple gamepads and joysticks, through to plastic guitars and drum-sets that take up all the space in our living rooms!

Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PlayStation 3 titles.

Product placement is the act of using branded products in high visibility settings inside movies and games in exchange for special consideration, financial purchases or otherwise. In recent years, it has become more apparent.

Secrets are in many videogames. They are ways of making a game more fun after you have beaten it or just to show cool or weird things.

Games that support the use of the skateboard peripheral originally designed for Tony Hawk RIDE. The controller is currently used on two Tony Hawk games, RIDE and SHRED.

The ability to slow down time or at least seem so in order to pull off precisely accurate stunts. Bullet time is an enhanced version of slow-mo.

Whether it be for points, speed boosts or just for aesthetic purposes, this game includes fancy tricks that the player can perform.

Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.