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Games that feature co-operative play for 4 players.
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.
Abstergo Industries is a multinational pharmaceutical corporation worth billions of dollars. Secretly, they are the modern public face of the conspiracy started hundreds of years ago by the Knights Templar, and seek to enslave all of humanity.
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.
Instrumental music, often electronic, that does not follow conventional music structures, instead using various sounds to create a mood. Ambient music can evoke many different feelings in the listener, from tranquility to creeping dread.
Ambient Occlusion attempts to realistically depict the way light reflects off surfaces and radiates throughout an area.
In many games the player is given the power to harm and or kill creatures. Many games have been brought to spotlight by groups like the rather militant PETA.
When a game allows the player to pet animals encountered in the environment. Some games are all about this.
Anvil Next is a game engine designed by Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed III. The engine has the ability to render crowds of over 1000 people and realistic weather patterns. It also has improved visuals and AI over previous Assassin's Creed titles.
Assassins are people who are tasked with the action of violence against peoples, though their general aims are to be discreet and as minimally violent as possible in order to remain discreet if necessary.
Characters that have an Australian accent.
When you hold down one button and you character automatically leaps over things and such.
The game automatically saves for you when you reach certain points. Implemented in order to reduce frustration for forgetful savers.
Many males, and some females, experience pattern baldness, a gradual loss of hair.
A rogue character who doesn't obey the law, bandits are known to steal from people for their own selfish gain.
When characters make conversation during normal gameplay, rather than a dialog-focused scene.
Going barefoot is to go without the assistance of any type of footwear including shoes, boots, socks, wraps, etc.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
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.
Games featuring quotations on their cover, often from well-known game publications that place the game in a positive light.
This shows you how long you have until you start wishing you had gills. When your breath runs out, you may take damage, or you may expire right there, depending on how sadistic the game designers were!
The Brotherhood of Assassins is a secret society that has existed for almost a thousand years, and which fights from the shadows against the Templar Order to protect mankind's free will.
The leader and/or driving force. An example to follow.
A game in which the object is for each team to retrieve the opponent's flag and return it to their own base. Typically used in multiplayer first-person shooter games.
A character who gets washed ashore on some island or other remote place.
Feline animals commonly kept as pets. There are many different breeds and varieties.
When the protagonist is pursuing someone or something in an effort to kill or capture.
Chest-High Walls appear regularly in video games, particularly in third-person-shooters with cover mechanics.
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
Characters who speak with a Chinese (or similar) accent.
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