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Popularized by Splinter Cell: Conviction during its development, this technique involves projecting information, such as objectives and controls, onto the surfaces of a virtual environment.
Any type of puzzle that involves changing the perspective, usually by manually moving around the camera to line up items in the environment.
Oversized pests such as rats or bugs are often used as low level enemies in role playing games. They can be found in most any Western RPG, especially ones that use the Dungeons and Dragons rule set.
The film grain effect gives games a cinematic feel by simulating the grainy visuals that are present in some movies.
Necromancers are spell casters who specializes in conjuring and controlling the undead.
An atmospheric phenomenon that causes a fantastic natural light display.
A practitioner of alchemy; the brewing and making of substances with unusual properties.
Projectiles that once fired can be retrieved again, either from the corpse of victims or, more likely, from the environment around it.
Magic or divination involving the dead and departed. One that practices necromancy is generally referred to as a necromancer.
Species of large yellow birds used as transportation in the Final Fantasy series. Chocobos have also starred in their own games.
Battle system associated with Final Fantasy series. First introduced in Final Fantasy IV.
A lawyer is someone who can practice law and can be a representative in a court case, usually representing the plaintiff or the defense.
Killing Two people in a certain amount of time. generally a close time frame. Found in many games but most commonly fps games. Often referred to as Sage-Killing (similair to Sage-Camping) after the player Sage320 who used to play Gunbound and receive many double kills.
A term for a humanoid creature with animalistic features which can comprehend everything from slightly feral humans to savage monsters with trace amounts of anthropomorphism.
Items that prove innocence or guilt.
Games that feature two teams; one red, one blue.
There's a lot of special ops to be done out there. If they aren't in a city or a desert, most likely they're in a jungle.
Spawned from Nanotechnology research and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems technology, nanomachines are mainly centered around Medicine and Biology. "Nanomachine" is the term for nanite machines that use the nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) to measure it's size.
Iconic blaster fodder which appear in any good Star Wars game, having origins with the Republic's Clone troopers. Come in a wide number of different variants.
Games that conclude with a screen displaying "The End" or a variation thereof, such as "Fin."
Ubisoft's proprietary engine based on a heavily modified CryEngine. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal.
This concept is featured in games that have a character wearing a helmet or mask with a skull graphic or picture on it, or else a helmet styled to resemble a skull. This does not pertain to characters who actually have skulls for heads.
Mustaches are often found on the evil villain of cartoons to let the audience know just how evil they are, or used in parody of them.
Toyota has its cars featured in racing games.
Wii games with downloadable content that you have to pay for.
Games often use letters like X and Z in the title to make their game seem more edgy, blatantly misspelling the title of their game in the process.
An advanced movement mechanic in fighting games which allows quick and relatively safe grounded movement by either sliding due to momentum from a movement option from the air (like an Air Dodge) or cancelling dashes by crouching.
An iconic Dark Side Force power made famous by Emperor Palpatine that entails generating blasts of lightning from one's fingertips.
Some versus/multiplayer modes had fighting game elements in non-fighting games.
Various franchises release "versions" of the same game. These games are basically the same, but each one lacks something the other has.
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