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Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Games on Xbox Live that are no longer available for purchase on the Xbox Games Store.
Why use buttons when you can eschew competent camera control for using the right analog stick to wail on virtual dudes? Codename:Roscoe.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
A rune is normally an ancient letter or symbol, often carved into a stone or gem, infused with mystical power. In many games they confer new abilities on a character, or add effects to an item.
Multipliers award players for playing well continuously. Racking up multipliers is crucial in any point based game in which they are featured.
In second person point of view, the action is shot from the perspective of a character that is not the protagonist. It can also refer to second-person in the narrative sense, where the protagonist is the person playing the game.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
A hairstyle, sans hair.
A region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity. In video games this is usually an attack that either stun or pushes enemies away.
A set of skills and abilities displayed in a branching path. Skills in the tree open up after completing required prerequisites.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
A supersoldier is a soldier artificially given abilities far beyond those of normal humans. These include increased strength, speed, stamina, intelligence, the ability to fly, the ability to create fire with their mind, etc.
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.
While planned from conception as an epic, three part saga, tepid critical reception and sales might prevent the completion of the story.
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of the Unreal engine, and is base for numerous games, such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and Roboblitz.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
Valkyries are maidens who serve Odin. They take slain warriors to Valhalla.
Items found in video games that serve little or no use to the player, other than to be sold to NPC vendors for money.
Vikings were the seafaring people in Scandinavia between 800 - 1050.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
It's any time a character drags a weapon along the ground while trying to attack an enemy, usually in an attempt to look cool but really just looking silly.
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.
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.
Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
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