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Sometimes, rather than building a character model from scratch, a developer will sometimes use a real person as a template and use his or her physical attributes to create a similar character model to be used in their video game. In some cases that real reason will appear as themselves in games.
The Cold War is the period of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union that dominated world politics from the mid 1940s all the way until the early 1990s.
Communism is an economic and political ideology which (at least in theory), seeks to eventually achieve a classless society that promotes equality in gender, racial, and/or social terms. Despite this, most Communist regimes are often dictatorial rather than utopian.
Law makers and fat cats who will sell the population down the river just to gain more power and money.
Some of these games were trying to approximate the person's actual features with little success, and others stylized them on purpose. Either way, no one would confuse the resulting characters with the people they represent.
The usually self-appointed leader of a region with totalitarian control. Usually will come into power through violence and will stay in power until he dies or is killed.
Derived from the Spanish word for "little war", guerrilla warfare is waged by a small and mobile armed force against a larger, more regimented force. It typically involves the use of ambushes, sabotage, and other offensive tactics meant to overcome an enemy's greater numbers.
Nothing helps set a game in a specific point in time more than having a few famous faces from history drop by to say hi.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
A narcissist is a person that is obsessed with one's own looks or who has an egomaniacal sense of self-importance.
Nazi Zombies are a combination of two of gaming's main bad guys, Nazis and Zombies.
Characters that are initially portrayed as evil, but eventually turn out to be good or not as serious of a threat. This also includes villains who remain evil the entire game, but contain some sense of moral goodness or ambiguity.
Playable in the Black Op's zombie level, "Five".
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1950 and 1959.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1960 and 1969.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1980 and 1989.
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