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In some games, the differences between the difficulty settings are more significant than tweaked health, damage and currency. This could be new or changed enemies, boss battles, mechanics or items
High-tech exoskeleton wearing, sword wielding warriors featuring prominently in the Metal Gear and Mortal Kombat franchises. Several characters assume the identity of a Cyborg Ninja throughout several console generations.
Sometimes the best way to get past security is to find your nearest barrel or cardboard box and hide in it
A joke or reference that appears throughout a series of games.
The Cold War is the period of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union that dominated world politics from the mid 1940s all the way until the early 1990s.
Various mammals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to rabbits but having longer ears and legs and giving birth to active, furred young.
They are more than a fish. They are more than a man. Death will rise from the tides, they are murloc.
The Rule of Three dictates that a certain action must be repeated three times, usually when fighting a boss battle, in order to complete an objective.
The 2011 Gamescom takes place at the Cologne Trade Fair Center, Germany from 17-21 of August.
Citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was a country that emerged after the Civil War in The Russian Empire.
Video games that include a physical cloth or paper map in their packaging.
Games that are heavily based on a developer's actual experiences, usually by way of allegory.
Crawling is a form of locomotion in which a person lies down and uses the hands and knees to move around, or by dragging the body along the ground.
Real-Time Polygonal Tessellation is a method of drawing polygonal models. A dynamic process, tessellation renders and dumps triangular polygons in proportion to distance and level-of-detail. It is a flagship feature of DirectX 11 and OpenGL.
These big'uns would love to smash you into a pulp by charging full-speed in a perfectly straight line, but if you take two steps to the right you'll be safe and sound ... for a few seconds at least.
Proprietary game engine developed by Crystal Dynamics.
Evolution marks the progression from one stage to the next.
A system where bonuses are unlocked based on the amount of users that pre-purchase a particular game via Steam. This system was first introduced for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
A number of kills without a suffering a death.
Strength beyond normal human bounds, i.e. lifting cars, bending metals, shattering a street with one's fist.
Yellow primordial beings who have assisted (and accidentally plagued) history's greatest villains since the dawn of man.
In the Fullmetal Alchemist universe, a homunculus is a being that seeks to be human. They are created when a person has failed to resurrect someone from the dead with Alchemy. They look exactly like the dead person who was being revived except they have tattoos on their bodies.
First-person games in which the player character casts a shadow.
"Dear Diary. Went to See Movie. Ate Some Ice Cream. Murdered in a horrific, mysterious way. At least I don't have to jog tomorrow!"
A version of a game purchased in one part of the world may not be playable in another. Region free games however, can be played anywhere.
These games were popular enough to be adapted for the theater.
A fourth-wall breaking situation in which a character tells the player to press a specific button or a reference to a button is shown within the environment. This mostly happens during tutorials.
A sport in which the player throws a ball down a lane in order to knock over 10 pins that are set up in a triangular shape.
A path that is displayed on screen to help guide the player to certain objectives.
When the player character can execute a jump that is higher or farther than their normal jump. This can require holding the jump button or performing some different control input, and can be limited by energy or a cooldown.
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