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Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
The delay between what you do and when it actually happens, latency can result in a lessened ability to enjoy a game or get high scores.
A character in a game who has acted professionally, in movies, TV, or the stage.
Games that feature more than one style of Game Over screen. Alternate Game Over screens are often used when the player loses in specific ways.
Crabs in all forms and sizes, not just the giant enemy variety.
Planet destruction sometimes a gameplay mechanic, sometimes a plot point. Should cover pending as well as actual destruction.
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.
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.
Games whose titles are meant to be taken more than one way.
A soccer slide tackle is a sideways slide that attempts to knock the ball away from your opponent's feet. It can also be used in a non-sports setting - e.g. to slide tackle an enemy to the ground or simply pass through a narrow gap.
The Lombax is an animal-like alien, who are nearly all extinct from the known galaxies. Ratchet is the only known surviving member of the species.
Any game where players progress through difficult challenges that usually provide points or medals based on performance.
Due to crafty camera angles and conveniently placed objects in the environment, the nudity in the scene is obscured from view.
Any game that involves jumping on an enemy's head as an attack, such as in Super Mario Bros.
Hopping Chinese vampires that suck life force.
Cloaking is to become invisible or become close to invisible depending on strength of the ability or item.
A fighting area that possess multiple locations, which can be gained by one player striking the other at specific locations with a powerful move. One character proceeds to the next arena unwillingly, and taking damage. The other player follows the first player and does not take damage. Fighting then resumes until the match ends, or perhaps until the next transition into yet another area.
Demons are generally creatures of evil, usually from Hell, who are often totally untrustworthy even when they're not murdering everyone and destroying everything in their path.
Aquatic creatures with eight tentacles covered with suction cups. They often appear as boss enemies.
The strategy of demonstrating how awesome something is by putting the word "super" in its title. Incredibly popular among developers making games for the Super Nintendo, which itself counts as an example.
The word "voxel" is a portmanteau of "volumetric" and "pixel" (which in turn is a portmanteau of "picture" and "element"). Essentially a three-dimensional cube, they are used to build objects in a virtual space, especially terrain.
Foxes are wolf-like mammals, many having red fur. They are thought of as tricksters, underdogs, or for women, if you're foxy, then you're sexy.
The ability to change shape. Humans shifting into animals is the most common type of shape shifting.
A special device or game mechanic that summarizes and categorizes newly discovered creatures.
Damaging enemies by simply jumping on top of them.
The cutscenes are nothing but the pages of a comic book. Audio is usually dubbed over to give them a little more life.
A recurring type of B.O.W. (Bio-Organic Weapon) that is fought throughout the Resident Evil franchise.
A variation on the comic cutscene, motion comic is used as a more streamlined narrative medium reaching an effective balance between static comic panels and full blown CG.
When a developer creates a game that could be perceived as a new instalment in an existing franchise that they've worked on before, but doesn't share the same name due to licensing issues or other reasons, it's called a spiritual successor.
A character working for an agency or organization who is, in reality, working in secret against the organization for a rival agency.
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