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A pimp is a fellow who is known to convince women into selling their bodies as a commodity to their clientele. Pimps are also known to wear outrageous suits, and robes, usually in fluorescent color like purple, green, and light blue, with matching hats, shoes, etc.
PlayStation Mobile was a software framework for the Android platform and PlayStation Vita, enabling users to download and play compatible games on PlayStation Certified devices.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
PlayStation Underground was a CD magazine published by Sony for the original PlayStation from 1997 to 2001. Each of the 17 issues included demos, video interviews, behind the scenes content, and much more.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
The police chase consists of the police chasing someone; usually by car. Sometimes the player plays as the guy getting chased and sometimes as the police.
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!
The ability to take direct control of another person's body, or an inanimate object, in order to further your own goals. Usually an ability found only in spectral characters.
Swearing, cursing, call it what you want. It is an expression of anger or frustration, in most cases.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
Roadblocks are used to prevent the transit in that road. They're used in videogames either to prevent the player to go in that direction or as a challenge the player must overcome.
Roads which are under construction.
A cop who breaks the rules, roughs up suspects, and ignores his/her boss.
Rubber Band AI is an infamous hidden feature in racing games that allows computer-controlled opponents to catch up no matter how far behind they are. It is intended to keep challenging the player, but can also give AI opponents an unfair advantage.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Games that involve the player saving a president from being killed, kidnapped, or otherwise harmed.
In second person point of view, the action is shot from the perspective of a character that is not the protagonist. It can also refer to second-person in the narrative sense, where the protagonist is the person playing the game.
Shooting ranges are often used in video games as a means of improving the player's reflexes and aim in armed combat situations.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Showing half a face on box art is often used to give a sense of power or mystery.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
Sidekicks, different from partners, are less powerful, less important characters who support the main protagonist and generally stick by their side.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
The inclusion of a feature that recaps either recent plot events or the events of the entire plot of a game in a reviewable log of some form. It can serve as a useful tool for those that need a reminder on earlier story events or the current objective.
Illegal auto racing taking place on public roads.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1970 and 1979.
Many games that feature a theft mechanic also include a some form of risk or punishment. Other games just let players steal things as if it's a perfectly normal thing to do.
Allows a cinematic view of your vehicle in the Driver series.
When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
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