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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.
Usually refers to the end of the world.
First starting out as simple machines throwing stones, artillery has evolved greatly and is an important weapon in war.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
CTRL 1-9 = CTRL Group. Crucial to battlefield success, using Control Groups in most RTS games allows one to better manage ones forces.
Customization in games that allow users to change various parts of their equipment or moves to fit their gaming style.
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.
Flat shading is a lighting technique used in 3D computer graphics. Its characteristic look is easily recognized.
A staple in both the real-time and turn-based strategy genres, Fog of War simulates the unknowns of the battlefield by covering areas of the map, to be progressively revealed by the player.
An early API by 3dfx for hardware accelerated 3D graphics on PC.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
Micromanagement is the act of increasing the efficiency and longevity of units during a battle, or managing equipment, statistics and abilities on an obsessive level.
For games that feature a mission briefing before gameplay.
Open source games are games that have had their source code officially released to the public, allowing anyone to modify, distribute, and create ports of the game.
Games that could be controlled via the PS1 mouse.
Radial Menus are menus that appear in a circular pattern to display the options the player has.
The act of acquiring resources for the purpose of building structures and/or unit construction. Resource gathering is a staple of the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre.
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 period between 2100 and 2199.
The ability, through purchasing, winning, unlocking, or other means, to change your vehicle (usually for the better). Changes can be alterations to original vehicle or a completely new vehicle.
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.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
The building/editing of vehicles, mechs, and the like.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
Zoom Platform, or the Zoom Web Store, is a digital distribution service selling DRM free classic games, updated to work on modern computers. The store was launched on September 9, 2014.
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