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Driving lines are lines that appear on the road in some racing games. Generally, their colour indicates at what speed you should be driving, and their location indicates an ideal route.
Endurance racing is racing a track for very long periods of time. An example of endurance racing in video games would be the 24 hour Le Mans in GRID.
In some free roaming driving games such as Mafia and the Driver series, a speed limit is enforced by the police as opposed to games such as the GTA series where such felonies are ignored.
Games that involve characters who must find their way out of a sinking car.
NaturalMotion's Euphoria Engine is a system that combines physics simulation, artificial intelligence, and hand-made animations to create convincingly reactive game characters. Euphoria is best known for its integration in Rockstar Games releases and the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed franchise.
Appeared in many Formula 1 games.
Any seemingly dormant object that doesn't serve its intended purpose, as its primary function is to explode in your face.
In real life, vehicles rarely explode unless an actual explosive device is involved. Like, it almost never happens. In video games, on the other hand, cars will blow up real good with almost no encouragement.
The Federal Investigation Bureau is a federal agency of law enforcement in the GTA universe parodying the real-life FBI.
In order to avoid licensing issues, many games simply create fictional car brands.
A line that signals the start or the end of the race. Even though it is used for racing, it could mean any type of racing game.
First-turn carnage is when racing vehicles have large multi-vehicle wrecks on the first turn of the race. This usually happens when there is not enough of a straight-away between the starting grid and the first turn to seperate the faster vehicles from the slower vehicles.
Rings that your character can fly through. Usually used for mini missions and extra playtime (filling)
Whenever there's a new Pixar, superhero or Harry Potter movie they have to make one of these.
A gang isn't just two crude dudes, it's a whole mess of them. There's all kinds of different gangs represented in games: street gangs, organized criminals, and even high school cliques.
A form of racing designed to test the car and driver's skill and endurance. It evolved into closed circuit racing like modern Formula 1 and MotoGP. Even the Mario Kart series has it.
Illuminati or the "The New World Order" the evil religious cult that's hell bent on controlling the world.
The use of everyday objects as weapons of destruction, often combination.
In-Game Advertising is the placement of advertisements for real-world products within the game, sponsored by companies external to the developer.
Games often feature in-game music, however some have taken the effort to create their own radio stations, with DJ's, talkback, and a variety of music.
The jumping jack is the technique of carjacking a moving vehicle from another moving vehicle.
Games that obtained permission to feature real-life licensed car brands.
Livery Editors allow you to fully customize your car's livery with all sorts of shapes that can be bent and resized to form all kinds of cool paintjobs.
A gang in the game Saint's Row for the XBox 360. Headed up by brothers Hector and Angelo Lopez, the gang have Columbian connections links Manuel Orejuela.
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