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Muay Thai is a form of martial arts that is the national sport in Thailand. Modern kickboxing is a derivative of Muay Thai designed specifically as a counter to it.
Legendary, stealthy assassins from Japan's feudal era, who are well-trained in the art of the sword, and who may or may not have access to magical powers.
Various games purposefully don't include blood when realistically there should be fountains of gore to avoid getting an adult rating and sell to a wider audience.
Normal mapping is an integral part in making believable visuals. Using advanced surface information in conjunction with light information, an artist is able to define an incredible amount of detail on any low polygon model.
A Japanese term adopted by fight game enthusiasts, referring to the situation where one player is down (laying on the ground), or getting up from a laying position, and the standing player attempts to keep their advantage. Although the concept is generally associated with 3D fight games, it can also be seen in 2D ones (i.e. throwing a fireball which the opponent will get-up into).
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Various effects using "particles" (billboard/sprite planes or full models).
An advanced shading model, including diffuse, ambient and specular shading, with per-pixel lighting. Developed by Bui Tuong Phong, it was introduced to gaming with the Sega Hikaru arcade system in 1999. Since the mid-2000s, it has been the most widely used shading model in modern 3D video games.
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Some fighting games allow players to move (and execute moves) after the match (or round) has ended.
Some fighting games allow the player to move their character prior to the actual start of the round.
Professional gaming is the world where players make a salary by playing games for a professional eSport organization. The professional gaming scene is built upon tournament managing organizations like TheCGS, ESWC, WCG and their sponsors.
A boss that players fight multiple times throughout the game. They usually follow the player as they progress.
Ability to see a character's body in mirrors, water, or other surfaces.
A ring out occurs when a character leaves a stage (mostly due to falling off stage because of being forced by opponent or bad timing) and automatically loses round/match. This is a common concept in fighting games.
A page about different rivals seen in video games, such as Shadow the Hedgehog, the numerous rivals from Pokemon games, and so on.
Sega's first PC-based arcade board, used for their high-end arcade games in the mid-to-late 2000's.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
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Common concept in 3D fighting games that allows you to side step around your opponent avoiding his attacks.
SNK fighting games are notorious for boss fights of ludicrous difficulty. Common symptoms of SNK Boss Syndrome include absurdly high attack priority, overpowered special attacks, and AIs that read button inputs. Though it's most common in SNK games, the syndrome has also appeared in games by other companies.
Spamming, in video games, refers to the rapid, repeated use of the same item or action. For instance, "grenade spamming" in COD4 is the act of a player throwing a large amount of grenades in succession into an area so that they may get a lucky kill or simply distract the enemy.
Some games force you to try and survive as long as possible without losing, or tasks you with surviving a certain number of "waves" of enemies before granting you victory.
Terrain Deformation is the idea of allowing the geometry of the world to be changed in dynamic, non-scripted ways. For instance, in the game Sacrifice you can cast many spells (like Volcano) which alter the terrain's elevation permanently.
Characters who are influenced and clearly modeled after the late Jeet Kune Do Master, Bruce Lee.
A game mode that allows you to train for combos, moves, etc.
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.
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