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An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
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.
Superhumans crafted from the Emperor's genetic code, the Space Marines are the strong-arm of the Imperium of Man in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
One of the founding Space Marine chapters that turned to Chaos, the Alpha Legion currently serve as one of the more prominent legions of Chaos Space Marines, aligned with Chaos Undivided.
Audio logs are short voice recordings that a player comes across within a game that helps inform the player of the game's story and characters.
Bald Space Marine is the concept in many shooters that the player's character is a generic blank slate with no or little narrative development. Recently parodied in TimeSplitters and Matt Hazard. Also exemplified by limitations in technology.
Games based on tabletop (AKA pen and paper) role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons or Vampire: The Masquerade. These can have any type of gameplay, as long as they are set in the tabletop game's universe.
A Chapter of Space Marines formed in the Second Founding of the Warhammer 40K universe. Descended from the Imperial Fists, they are known for being exceptionally zealous and merciless even compared to other Space Marine chapters.
The IXth of the founding Space Marine legions, based on the world Baal. They tragically suffer from conditions called The Black Rage and the Red Thirst which, when they happen in a given Blood Angel, drives them mad.
A group of Blood Ravens show up as part of the Liberation Fleet towards the end of the single player campaign. Captain Titus has a conversation with one of them, congratulating them on their actions during Dawn of War
The rank-and-file Daemons of Khorne, each one a vicious and merciless warrior.
The greatest of Khorne's Daemons, each one a near-unrivalled master of melee combat possessed of endless ferocity.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
Bullet time is a gameplay mechanic that allows players to slow down time. Depending on the game itself, the player often slows down along with the world around them, however occasionally the player can simply move at normal speed while the game world continues to slow.
The ultimate enemy and primordial source of all evil. In Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy universe.
The Imperium's great enemy, the Chaos Space Marines, are the Adeptus Astartes that turned their back on the Emperor in exchange for the powers of Chaos.
These big'uns would love to smash you into a pulp by charging full-speed in a perfectly straight line, but if you take two steps to the right you'll be safe and sound ... for a few seconds at least.
A Multiplayer game mode where two opposing teams battle for flags, bases, or outposts
Characters that do not speak the localized language within the context of the game. An example being everyone in Persona speaking English while the story states that they are speaking Japanese.
A sight placed on the HUD used to aim and provide a point of reference to the player when looking and interacting with the game world. Although they often aim weapons, they have a variety of uses and have appeared in many games in many different forms.
Effective and brutal way to put an opponent down. Involves stomping on the back of someone's head while they're in a prone position.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Once the 14th of the God-Emperor's Space Marine legions, now sworn to the Plague God Nurgle.
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.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 2-4.
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