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Game » consists of 17 releases. Released Mar 17, 2015
Criminals banded together with a common goal in mind. Can range from a band of thugs to the Mafia.
A digital distribution platform owned and operated by EA.
A subscription service from EA for the PC. Similar to EA Access, users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles published with additional incentives.
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
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.
The police chase consists of the police chasing someone; usually by car. Sometimes the player plays as the guy getting chased and sometimes as the police.
The sound of police communicating amongst themselves via radio to co-ordinate attacks, often heard by the player so they can react to the attacks.
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 public testing period is, or has been, offered for the general public prior to sale or general availability. Access is generally granted through giveaways, preorders, or crowd-funding rewards.
Swearing, cursing, call it what you want. It is an expression of anger or frustration, in most cases.
A man or woman working the world's oldest profession. He/she might provide you a cutscene, health, or be a background NPC for an urban setting.
Prostitution is the exchange of money, drugs, favours, or other incentives for the performance of sexual acts.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
A weighty real-world issue that some games comment on, often through allegory. Unfortunately, other games can offend players in their depiction of different ethnicities, whether intentionally or not, thus becoming part of the issue themselves.
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
Rain can heavily increase the atmosphere of a video game. Some games use it to add detail to an environment, while other games use it to make it difficult to see.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Reloading is the action of replacing the ammunition magazine inside a gun. It adds a touch of realism to most modern shooters, and a certain amount of tension when a player is forced to reload while under fire.
Larceny by threat of violence. In video games you either plan and executes such robberies, or your job is to prevent them.
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
Any person that is in an Army.
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 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.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
The inclusion of a feature that recaps either recent plot events or the events of the entire plot of a game in a reviewable log of some form. It can serve as a useful tool for those that need a reminder on earlier story events or the current objective.
The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon. Followed by Twilight.
A television news program, often used to give a wider perspective on the events of the game.
The American Mafia which originated in Sicily and took root in Eastern America around the 20th century. It is also known as Cosa Nostra meaning "Our Thing". The explosion of Mafia activities and power in America happened in 1920's and their power lasted well into the 1970's and 1980's.
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