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Game » consists of 3 releases. Released Feb 25, 2010
Options to assist players with vision, hearing, or other impairments
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.
Attributes are a numerical representation of a character's abilities who have their roots in RPGs. Today, attributes have spilled over to a wide range of game genres.
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.
A style of gameplay where players must navigate a vast stream of projectiles.
A clone is a being created as a perfect genetic duplicate of another being, right down to the DNA.
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.
Electronic music is one of the broadest classifications of music, and has been a staple of video game soundtracks since the 90s. The genre's main trait is the use of electronic instruments.
Earning an extra life, either by collecting a 1up or by hitting a certain score.
A fleet is a group of ships, typically military warships, that sail together for mutual protection and to consolidate their power.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
It is believed that Frank Herbert's Dune books were the first to popularize the concept of a giant worm that is capable of devouring a person whole without even noticing it.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
An optional feature in Shoot 1up. Single Button Mode can be selected from the Options menu. Once selected, it will cycle through menus automatically, as well as allowing custom mapping.
With a few minor tweaks to the control scheme, this game can be played one handed.
In video games Plasma is often used as a core ingredient in weapons due to its high temperature. Due to the amount of damage it can inflict it is effective against any type of target, whether organic or metallic
Power Ups can be used to give the controlling character, or any other character, temporary or permanent upgrades.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
Rather than leaving each player to their own devices and deaths, some multiplayer modes pool the total number of lives or respawns that can be used among the entire team. Then the blaming starts.
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.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
Unit Formations are pre-set ways of laying out a group(s) of units in strategy games.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
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