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Games that feature co-operative play for 4 players.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
The cutscenes are nothing but the pages of a comic book. Audio is usually dubbed over to give them a little more life.
Cooperative play in games allows humans to play together as a team to accomplish a task. Instead of playing against a human opponent, the team must defeat an AI. Cooperative Play in some games also means 2 human versus 2 human, this occurs in some Billiards games. (Scotch Doubles / Doubles)
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.
An ethereal substance emanated from a ghost or physical medium.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Henchmen are the loyal grunts caught in between the player and the main antagonist. Without them every game would be nothing more than a boss battle.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Despite his inexperience, the New Guy has saved the world more times than any veteran.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Over-the-shoulder is a camera view point popularized by Resident Evil 4 that is featured in most modern third-person shooters and third-person action games.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
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.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
A mechanical system designed to capture or cause harm. Either the player can set traps for their enemies or others set them for the player.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
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