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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Nov 30, 1999
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.
There are good agents, like Elite Beat Agents and bad agents, like Agent Smith.
Violence doesn't solve everything - in these games you have the option to arrest perpetrators instead of killing them outright. Often a bonus is attached to taking suspects in alive.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
When blood will splash textures on walls or floors and even roofs.
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.
A person serving time in prison or an escaped criminal on the run from the law.
A gameplay plot twist in the form of revealing non-human monsters to battle after fighting more realistic human enemies for the majority of the game.
Games involving characters that round up local hoodlums for the good of the community.
Games where attacks directed to the crotchal region cause much more damage than other areas, sometimes as a male-only phenomenon.
Given that Hell totally sucks, it's not surprising that Demons are semi-constantly trying to get from there to Earth.
Missions during which players are tasked with protecting a non-playable character or object from harm until a certain goal is met.
A main menu background that changes scenery as the game progresses.
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
In some video games one is allowed to scale a fence.
The head honcho of a group of miscreants
A gang isn't just two crude dudes, it's a whole mess of them. There's all kinds of different gangs represented in games: street gangs, organized criminals, and even high school cliques.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
Hostages exist to be saved, guarded, and occasionally executed.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Games that allow the player to choose which level to play next, rather than a fixed linear order.
Martial arts are a popular set of skills that many video game characters possess. Martial arts are the cornerstone of any fighting game, and have influenced many platforming and adventure games.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
Murder is the act of ending the life of another living thing against its will without the sanction of a higher governmental authority, such as the casualties that result from acts of war. It is generally intentional, at least in a legal meaning, but not necessarily.
A character whose intentions seem to be to help the player character, but their motives are unclear.
Despite his inexperience, the New Guy has saved the world more times than any veteran.
Even tough the game was divided in districts the levels felt like an open world. There were different streets to explore in the majority of the levels. In most cases you didn't have to do your mission right away.
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