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Non-stealth games with a mission or level where you must sneak/creep through an area undetected.
Eliminating a target with a long-range rifle.
Crunchy frozen water fallen from the sky. Many games feature a snow world, a snow level, or otherwise-connected regions of wintery landscapes.
When a character's accent hails from the Southern United States. Ranges from the languid drawl of the gentleman to the rustic vernacular of the hillbilly.
A reversed thumbstick layout for left-handed players. The option isn't default, but is available in most games.
Spectating is a game option for a player to simply watch other players playing a game without interacting.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2006.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2008.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
A gameplay mechanic which allows the player to move faster than the normal speed. Usually for a set amount of time.
You work with a small team of AI or human squad members (usually with a total squad size of 4) to complete objectives.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
Often used to show their dominance over those tiny creatures called insects, and sometimes just for fun!
Sticky grenades are a type of explosive that is thrown and sticks a surface such as the body of an enemy, thus making the explosive damage inescapable.
Usually the room before a boss battle, filled with ammo, health and other goodies for players to stock up on.
A term to describe a weapon's ability to hinder the movement of it's target.
Moving to the left or right without rotating the body axis. The technique, also called side-stepping, is useful in FPS games to avoid incoming fire without turning away from a target.
The Stranded are the humans that couldn't get to the Jacinto Plateau during Emergence Day and were left behind. They are considered thieves by the COGs due to their habit of stealing equipment off dead bodies, and they see the COG as "facist pigs" for leaving them behind.
Stunt casting is the practice of hiring a relatively well-known actor to play a small or supporting role. It is often done with the intention of using name recognition to broaden a game's potential audience.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
Sudden Death occurs when two or more players/teams have the same score at the end of the game. It can also be a penalty that activates when a player of match is taking too long. The players will then have to get rid of each other in a hurry.
The act of taking one's own life.
The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon. Followed by Twilight.
A superweapon is a structure or character with amazing powers and amazing costs. This weapon can turn the battle to its owner's side single-handedly, but is usually the most expensive and time consuming to construct.
Suppressing fire is firing your weapon at the enemy to force them to stay in cover, to reduce their mobility and their ability to return fire and reconnoitre your position. Impossible to do right in games, due to the fearlessness caused by players not feeling pain when they are shot.
Some games force you to try and survive as long as possible without losing, or tasks you with surviving a certain number of "waves" of enemies before granting you victory.
A graphical effect that shows a massive amount of world or is used to give a sense of grand scale.
Also known as corpse-humping, tea-bagging is a slang term in video games when after a player has slain another player or NPC, they move their character over the dead character's body and crouch up and down repeatedly, adding a humiliating, and often humorous, factor to the character's death.
A Multiplayer game mode where two or more teams fight against each other to the death. The team with the most kills wins.
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