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An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
Auto-aiming (or Auto-targeting) allows for a character to attack or interact with an object or enemy that's very near to the player or within their field of vision.
Games featuring quotations on their cover, often from well-known game publications that place the game in a positive light.
An age-old, widely-hated strategy in multiplayer games: stay in one spot and kill passers-by. Also refers to a more benign activity in MMOs.
A game in which the object is for each team to retrieve the opponent's flag and return it to their own base. Typically used in multiplayer first-person shooter games.
A sight placed on the HUD used to aim and provide a point of reference to the player when looking and interacting with the game world. Although they often aim weapons, they have a variety of uses and have appeared in many games in many different forms.
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
A popular name for the killcount (scoring system) in first person shooters, origin is Doom. The name comes from fragmentation grenades in that these are mainly antipersonnel weapons, the meaning is obscured greatly when referring to frags in games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
When a game lacks the ability to "Pause" Game Play by pressing Start on a game console controller (or some other button on a keyboard/mouse).
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
Early and smaller PS2 games were produced on CD-ROM rather than DVD-ROM. They are easily recognized by the iconic, deep blue color of the underside of the disc.
This exploitation of the original Starsiege: Tribes' physics model speeds up player movement down declining surfaces.
Eliminating a target with a long-range rifle.
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.
Games with vehicles that can be controlled. This applies to games that AREN'T focused on just driving, but just happen to have a vehicle segment or the ability to pilot one.
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