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Characters that have a French accent.
Namekians (Namek-seijin) are an alien race in the DragonBall universe.
Using a 2D sprite that always faces the camera within a polygonal 3D environment to fake a 3D effect.
The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
In fiction, characters sometimes cut their hair to signify a great change or growth in themselves.
The Charlotte Hornets are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. They were an expansion team called the Charlotte Bobcats in 2004, but changed their name to Hornets in 2014 after reclaiming it from the team that moved from Charlotte to New Orleans in 2001 (now Pelicans).
Hotseat multiplayer mode allows multiple people to play the same game on one system. This generally only applies to turn based games such as Civilization IV or Advanced Wars.
Games show you a new enemy throughout the game and they usually require a new tactic to defeat it. The first one you fight comes solo and you are required to kill it, then they are given to you in groups or possibly mixed with older enemies.
The wheels are already in motion when you begin the race, there's no turning back.
The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
The 2009 Interactive Achievement Awards celebrated the best games of 2008.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2006.
An unbeatable enemy is just that, an enemy you can't beat or destroy. It's best to just run away from them.
During boss battles, sometimes the boss kills their own henchmen. This concept is often used as a way of demonstrating a boss' wrath.
A Puppet Fighter is a character type from Fighting Games who has the ability to actively control two separate persons or entities simultaneously.
Combos where constant inputs from the player aren't required. All that is required is that the first hit connects and then the Combo will play out until it is completed, or the player on the receiving end escapes.
The ability to walk on water. Sometimes depending on a character's speed (IE slowing down will result in them sinking).
A shadowy organization founded by Major Zero after Operation Snake Eater. Their goal is having complete digital control over all mankind. Also known as the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo."
They beep when you walk through them!
Game titles that make a statement of fact or opinion.
A sacrifice is the act of offering something (item, health, creature, blood, etc.) to a higher power or a greater good. In games, this often guarantees some sort of favor in return.
Sometimes a character will come up on your HUD to tell you an important piece of information. This usually consists of voice acting, occasionally Full Motion Video, and is pretty useful when you need to learn about things like doing barrel rolls.
The act of killing a god.
Developed by Swedish studio DICE, the Frostbite Engine focuses on destructible environments and HDR sound. The engine made its debut with Battlefield: Bad Company.
Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment (named to fit the acronym 'FREE') is a quasi-genre invented by designer Yu Suzuki, describing a blend of adventure and open-world sandbox gameplay found in the Shenmue franchise.
Games that encourage the beating of small and/or defenseless creatures.
The act of hiring qualified people for a job or enlisting them for warfare purposes.
Vestigial items may have had a use at one point in time, but now occupy a permanent inventory space and cannot be removed due to their special status.
As storage capacity has increased, games have been able to incorporate more forms of media. Some games allow you to watch television or film programs, be they original content or previously published material.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1950 and 1959.
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