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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Dec 08, 2005
An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
Alert is a state a game may enter after the player has been overtly detected by enemies, and often brings increased enemy opposition (in numbers, aggression, etc.) while a cooldown timer or meter appears by which the player can gauge the expiration of Alert.
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
A person who travels into space.
Betrayal is when a person breaks the trust and faith that others have placed in them.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
When characters largely go by code names or call signs to protect their identities during their missions. They are also adopted for conveniences sake.
Many games have had collectible cards as a part of the gameplay.
A style of animation that gives games a more hand drawn look.
A clone is a being created as a perfect genetic duplicate of another being, right down to the DNA.
CQC and CQB are close range combat techniques.
Codec is the communication system used by Snake in the Metal Gear series of games.
Crawling is a form of locomotion in which a person lies down and uses the hands and knees to move around, or by dragging the body along the ground.
An attack that does more damage than usual, usually affected by random chance and some sort of modifier.
An organism consisting of both natural and artificial systems.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Spectrasonics Distorted Reality is a sample library commonly used in compositions.
Your friend in medicine. Mostly.
When the player's actions trigger a change in the game's soundtrack. This adds a cinematic quality to the gameplay.
The 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on May 18-20.
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
A dark version of a game's hero, featuring many of the same powers. Usually wears black. Male evil twins often have goatees.
An environmental hazard that can be exploited to inflict massive areal damage, exploding barrels are one of the most ubiquitous objects to be found in games. The most common methods of ignition include shooting and throwing. Exploding barrels are usually distinguished from the non-exploding kind by a conspicuous red tint.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
Advertisements sometimes appear in game as a spoof on real-life advertisements, or to further envelope the player in the video game world.
You may think you know who you are playing as, but do you?
The national investigative arm of the American government, the FBI (as commonly abbreviated) is tasked with upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States, and to providing leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a woman.
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