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Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
One who murders three or more people within a relatively short time span.
A Japanese breed of dog.
A traditional Japanese board game also known as Japanese chess.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Whether it be cigarettes, cigars or pipes, tobacco or otherwise, everyone knows that smoking is bad for you - and that it makes you look undeniably cool.
A game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.
A gameplay mechanic which allows the player to move faster than the normal speed. Usually for a set amount of time.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
A series of Japanese board games in which players use dice to move their pieces forward, usually with special events that happen on certain spaces in the track.
A common type of mission in games that requires the player to follow an NPC without being detected. Follow too closely and the NPC might spot the player, but drop too far back and the NPC might get away. The player may have to follow in cars, boats, or on foot.
The yakuza are Japanese organized crime syndicates. Members are often identified by their elaborate tattoos.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
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