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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.
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.
Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
Characters either begin with multiple outfits, unlock them through play, or purchase them as in-game items. These costumes are sometimes integral to play.
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.
Attributes are a numerical representation of a character's abilities who have their roots in RPGs. Today, attributes have spilled over to a wide range of game genres.
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.
Bats, hammers, wrenches, maces, staves, or even brass knuckles. These are weapons intended for blunt trauma rather than cutting or slicing.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Also called a "Boob Slider", this is an interface that allows players to interactively increase or decrease the size of a character's breasts usually as a part of character creation.
A physics simulation or manual animation of a character's posterior.
When a venue in a fighting or wrestling game is enclosed around the combatants. This generally prevents ring-outs.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
Limited editions of games that include extra "perks" like Making of DVDs and a nice and shiny tin with extra box art
Any spoken words conjunct with and descriptive of on-screen action . This is prevalent in most sports games.
A real-life athlete who appears on the cover art of a sports game. Usually an up-and-coming star in the sport or a perennial fan favorite.
Create-A modes allows the player to create the skate park of their dreams, their own action hero, or the next champion of wrestling.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
Druids were pre-Christian priests in Celtic culture and feature prominently in Irish mythology. In games they are generally nature-based healers and spellcasters.
The 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 15-17.
Females with the double X chromosome, contrary to the fighters of the XY variety.
Finishing moves are typically moves that end a fight in a traditional fighting game.
When a game (usually downloadable) allows you to purchase the full version of that game directly from the demo. In some cases, the full game is the demo and all you are purchase is a very small (we are talking KBs) unlock key.
Wii games that can be played using a GameCube controller.
Games based on TV shows, which includes live-action and cartoons.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
A grapple is a maneuver in which one character grabs an enemy and usually throws or damages the enemy. Most grapples occur in fighting games.
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