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First Person Editing occurs when a player can edit the world geometry from a first-person point of view. A game which features First Person Editing as a core mechanic could be termed a First Person Editor, or FPE. Earliest examples of FPEs are Avoyd and Cube, followed by Infiniminer, Minecraft and many voxel games. The world editing properties should extend to the entire game environment, and optionally to avatars. A good test to identify an FPE is if players can write in-game by carving or building.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
Forge is a mode in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4, which allows players to alter their favorite multiplayer maps and easily share them with friends and the Halo community.
Some first-person games that wish to immerse the player in the experience more will go as far as to include full body awareness, or the ability to see the player character's body when looking down.
At E3 2013, Microsoft announced their Games with Gold campaign. The campaign offered two downloadable games a month for free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers for a limited number of months. On October 18, 2013, Microsoft stated they were extending the promotion indefinitely.
The third annual Game of the Year awards from Giant Bomb.
An animation system used in creating games.
An in-house engine created and used by Bungie to develop the Halo games.
HD Remaster is a term to a single game that has been updated to conform with the HD standards on that console.
A new gametype in Halo: Reach. The objective of this game is to collect skulls retrieved from other players corpses and bank them safely.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
When a character or group of characters does something extremely brave on behalf of another character or group of characters, knowing that they will get killed or seriously injured in the process.
A console game is high definition if it operates at a resolution of at least 720p, or 1280x720. A console able to achieve this resolution is HD-capable. For a variety of reasons, the term does not apply to PC games.
"Horde" is a type of multiplayer game mode in which players battle co-operatively against increasingly difficult waves of computer-controlled enemies.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
Huragok (also known as Engineers) are a Covenant race known for their affinity with machinery. They are the only known non-combat Covenant species, instead acting in more of a support role
An in-engine cinematic is a type of cutscene that is rendered in real time using the game's graphics engine.
The in-game announcer is a non-character disembodied voice commonly heard in arcade games, first-person shooters and real-time strategy games. They announce game modes, multi-kills, and game-changing events.
A mode in the Halo series' multiplayer, pitting a team of "living" players against "zombie" players and switching living players to the zombie team when they are killed. Starting as a very popular unofficial game type in Halo 2, Infection was made an official mode in Halo 3 and Reach.
Bugs that are sapient beings and have humanoid and/or anthropomorphised features to varying degrees. This page includes Arachnids (Spiders, Scorpions) for brevity.
A competitive multiplayer mode similar to the deathmatch mode which is signified by limited or no abilities to respawn.
The opposite of open-ended gameplay, linear gameplay uses scripted events, Quick time events, cut scenes, and a restricted path to tell a story exactly how the writer intends, and control elements of the action.
It's easy to lose oneself in the heat of battle. Luckily, some games will alert the player as to when they are close to death.
Armed forces. The arm of government that deals with fighting wars and protecting a nation from external or internal threats
A post processing effect that blurs and streaks the entire frame. Loosely based on the behavior of real-world optics.
Small achievements awarded within multiplayer games during match progress, Sometimes accompanied by an in-game announcer callout. Usually awarded with kill streaks, multi-kills, objective modes, etc and are sometimes compiled into a "Medal Chest" which archives awarded medals and how many times they have been awarded.
Noble Team is a small-scale fire squad of the UNSC Special Warfare Command Group Three, comprised of mostly Spartan-III super soldiers and one Spartan-II commando.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Oddball, a 'kill the man with the ball' style of gametype present in the Halo series, tasks players with obtaining and maintaining possession of skulls around the level to earn points.
A division of the UNSC Navy in the Halo franchise. They played an integral part in the Human-Covenant War.
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