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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Mar 16, 2001
Common in modern war video games, air strikes are usually used to take out large targets such as enemy vehicles or buildings. Laser designators are often used by the player to illuminate the target for a massive aerial attack.
Instrumental music, often electronic, that does not follow conventional music structures, instead using various sounds to create a mood. Ambient music can evoke many different feelings in the listener, from tranquility to creeping dread.
Because you'd never expect a banana to be an undercover cluster grenade.
When blood will splash textures on walls or floors and even roofs.
Bats, hammers, wrenches, maces, staves, or even brass knuckles. These are weapons intended for blunt trauma rather than cutting or slicing.
AI Bots are computer-controlled game characters that substitute for characters that are otherwise typically played by a human, and are most commonly found in multiplayer games.
To jump from a great height with a long elastic cord attached to the ankles.
Some game characters just cannot swim. This usually means automatic death as soon as they hit the water.
Chemical weapons are weapons who use chemical products to obtain various detrimental effects.
Deadly Gas is used in many games as an obstacle and usually causes the player's health to degenerate over time.
MAYOR PEDROS attacks and hits 1 Pistolero for 20 points of damage reducing him to a thin red paste.
Digging is a strategic mechanic of many games. Digging allows the ability to unearth valuables and strategize pathways.
Dealing or receiving twice the damage one normally would.
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.
Drowning in games occurs when a being (not suited to be in water) runs out of oxygen, time, power, or barely even touches the water surface. Further complicated by the local sea-life that can knock the air out of you, should you get close.
An earthworm is a legless, sightless, hermaphrodite worm that mostly lives underground. Many video games give them eyes and/or arms and legs.
An environmental hazard that can be exploited to inflict massive areal damage, exploding barrels are one of the most ubiquitous objects to be found in games. The most common methods of ignition include shooting and throwing. Exploding barrels are usually distinguished from the non-exploding kind by a conspicuous red tint.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
A feature in some games on the GOG.com service. Unlocked only while using the GOG Galaxy client.
A ball of energy fired from the palms.
Games with cartoony, colourful, happy art styles that involve a lot of bloodshed, violence and killing. Examples would be Castle Crashers, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield Heroes, Alien Hominid, Conker's Bad Fur Day...
A game that has holiday themes was either initially designed as a game for a holiday, or one that has holiday elements in a level, or as an additional unlockable feature, either through the use of the system clock, or an additional download.
Hotseat multiplayer mode allows multiple people to play the same game on one system. This generally only applies to turn based games such as Civilization IV or Advanced Wars.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
So you can smoke those chumps playing with a controller.
Characters who lack body parts that people in the real world have, yet they still utilise their bodily functions.
Make sure you respect nature, or else! Note: This only concerns *protagonists*.
The Napalm Strike is a killstreak reward in Call of Duty: Black Ops, as well as a weapon in the Worms Series.
Radioactive particles in the air released by a nuclear explosion.
Games that are arguably the most fun in a "party" scenario with multiple players in one room.
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