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Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Apr 01, 1998
When inventing a series of races for a sci-fi setting, creators sometimes utilize a common framework of three competing races, including Humans, advanced aliens, and monster aliens. This is especially true in video games, where variety and balance are key.
Deep space freight haulers. Typical characterized by their southern drawls and baseball caps.
Splash damage is a term used in several types of games, most notably in first-person shooter and real-time strategy games, to refer to damage taken by players or objects in the area surrounding a point of weapon impact.
A two-dimensional image or animation overlaid into a scene. The foundation of early 2D games, making up everything from props to the player-controlled character.
A unit type in real time strategy games. Static defense is a range of units that serve as base defense but can not move beyond where they are built.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
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.
Be it bionic, demonic, or just plain magic; the supernatural arm often comes alone, but one is usually enough to give its owner extra powers.
Enemies that are small, deal relatively low damage, and have low health, but make up for it by attacking in large numbers. Examples include Flood infection forms from Halo, Trites from Doom 3, or Crawlers from Resistance: Fall of Man.
A "Tech Tree" is a concept used mainly in strategy and role playing games. Unlocking a node in the tree generally unlocks some effect (example: a new ability in a role playing game or new unit in a strategy game). Unlocking a parent node allows access to its child nodes.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
The Terrans are a race of futuristic humanoids that appear in the Starcraft universe. They are noted for their ability to quickly adapt to new terrains and use any natural resources to their advantage.
The Terran Confederacy was the most powerful Terran force in the Korprulu sector until its downfall in the original Terran campaign. Most Confederate forces joined the Terran Dominion after the Zerg attacked their homeworld Tarsonis.
Many online games allow text chat with other players.
What lies ahead, and is distant from the present.
Multiplayer Games that feature three teams instead of the usual two.
An organized series of matches, ending with one victor.
A type of gameplay where the player chooses and builds autonomous towers to protect a location from waves of enemies.
Many games feature storylines about wide, sweeping combat between three radically different factions.
The Ultralisk is the ultimate melee unit. with its massive blades, it deals splash damage to any units in front of it. It also functions as a meat shield.
Unexpectedly changing from one character to another during the plot.
"Every marine a rifleman" is one of the mottos of America's toughest fighting force. Tasked with projecting might through amphibious operations as well as acting as shock assault infantry, the Marines have taken on an added significance during the War on Terror.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
User Generated Content describes any content the end user produces to add onto the content given by the developer. User Generated Content has grown in popularity, with LittleBigPlanet, Forza Motorsport 3, ModNation Racers and Spore being great examples.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
Walk of Game was a life-time award that commemorates people, games and characters in the video game industry.
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
Used in Super Mario Bros. via the pipe system. Warp Zones became popularized on the NES/SNES.
Warping allows the player to take a shortcut, bypassing part of a game.
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