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Due to crafty camera angles and conveniently placed objects in the environment, the nudity in the scene is obscured from view.
Games which feature laying tracks, driving trains, and growing railway companies have a long history in the strategy genre.
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.
Static background images that are not drawn in real time.
An Expansion brings new missions, modes & new story elements to a full product title. Expansions typically require a full version game to function, but there are also stand-alone packs as well.
Those that attend a school seeking knowledge. In many video games (especially RPGs) students, most commonly high school students, are the protagonist of the game.
The skeleton is the framework of the human body.
Halflings, also known as hobbits, average about three and a half feet tall. They have an innate affinity to nature and possess both the agility and dexterity to make great rogues. Halflings are generally good people, but also have a mischievous side that my infuriate others.
Games that have seasons have their environment change depending on the time of the year.
As time progresses, the character ages. A boy one moment, a man the next, soon the character is so old he's on the brink of death...
Alternate realities are worlds that exists next to, in parallel of, or in place of our own.
A way of attempting to control a population via media.
A popular class in many D&D based games, the Fighter can both dish it and take it!
Orcs/Orks/Orques are a fictional race of tough humanlike creatures, often with green or black skin, originally coming from the Saxon word for the Normans during the invasion, meaning demon or foreigner.
Quicksave allows the player to save their progress in record time at the push of a button. It is more commonly found in PC games than in console games.
An initiative from Project EGG and D4 Enterprise to re-release emulations of old titles on console.
Lasting from 1939 to 1945, The second World War was a conflict between the Allies and the Axis. It was the most devastating conflict in human history.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
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.
The concept of a character leaping forwards or backwards in time.
This tag is for all games and characters that deal in the concept of gods, demigods, half-gods and the like.
A circumstance in video games where the player will defeat large numbers of enemies without any assistance from AI or other players. This may occur for part of a game or the entirety of it.
Games which have served as the basis of a comic book or vice versa.
More effective than any hospital. These games let you heal damage; ranging from a black eye to a gunshot wound, just by having a snack.
Games that ask the player whether they are sure about the decision that they have just made.
Using a 2D sprite that always faces the camera within a polygonal 3D environment to fake a 3D effect.
Whether it's Super Scaler or Mode 7, growing and shrinking sprites/textures is a concept often used in sprite-based games. It was a popular technique used to create three-dimensional games with sprites, mostly during the 16-bit to early 32-bit eras. Sprite-scaling was an early form of 3D texture-mapping.
In a number of games, characters often talk about friendship and the importance of friends, some sacrificing themselves for one another.
These are the characters who may or may not wind up in a relationship with the protagonist of the game. Sometimes the player gets to choose if this relationship will develop, while in other instances it is just left up to your imagination at the end of the game.
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