VIDEO GAMES 2020- Flashcards

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The game features the player character exploring a planetary system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that ends with the sun going supernova.

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OUTER WILDS

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It follows Selene Vassos, an astronaut who lands on the planet Atropos in search of the mysterious “White Shadow” signal and finds herself trapped in a time loop.

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RETURNAL

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he player takes on the role of Colt, an assassin stuck in a time loop who has been tasked to take out eight targets called Visionaries across the island of Blackreef before midnight, as leaving even one alive will cause the time loop to reset and undo his work.

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DEATHLOOP

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a feline humanoid mechanic of the Lombax race, and a diminutive, sentient Zoni “defective” robot –

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ratchet and clank

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a 2021 third-person shooter platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is a sequel to Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus and the ninth main installment in the Ratchet & Clank series

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RIFT APART

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Cody (Joseph Balderrama) and May (Annabelle Dowler), a married couple, are planning on getting a divorce. After they tell their daughter Rose (Clare Corbett) the news, she takes her hand-made dolls, which look like her parents, into the family shed and tries to repair their relationship by play-acting. The parents find themselves trapped inside the dolls’ bodies as a consequence of Rose’s tears landing on the dolls. Dr. Hakim, who has assumed the anthropomorphic form of his relationship therapy book, tells May and Cody that he has been given the job of trying to fix their relationship as they try to reach Rose.

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IT TAKES TWO

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tenth main game of the Resident Evil series.

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VILLAGE

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Like the game’s predecessor, the player controls Raz, a young acrobat who is training to become a NAME REDACTED a member of an international task force that uses their psychic abilities to stop those that perform nefarious deeds with their own psychic forces.

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PSYCHONAUTS 2

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2023 follows self-proclaimed “future rock star” Chai (voiced by Robbie Daymond in English and Hiro Shimono in Japanese),[4][5] whose music player is accidentally embedded in his chest during experimental cybernetic surgery, allowing him to rhythmically fight and re-perceive the world through environmental synesthesia.

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HI FI RUSH

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2023 survival horror video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. The sequel to NAME REDACTED (2010), the story follows best-selling noveliST, who has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years, as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson.

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ALAN WAKE 2

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a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), taking place five years after the events of the previous game and continues the adventure of young Jedi Knight, Cal Kestis, as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire.

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STAR WARS JEDI- SURVIVOR

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The game combines both action-adventure and management gameplay styles as players explore deep sea environments to gather ingredients for a sushi restaurant. It was released for macOS and Microsoft Windows in June 2023

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DAVE THE DIVER

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2023 ZELDA GAME

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TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

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2023 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the first traditional side-scrolling Super Mario game since New Super Mario Bros. U (2012). The player controls Mario, Luigi, and their friends as they attempt to stop Bowser, who plots to take over a new land known as the Flower Kingdom after using the magical Wonder Flower to fuse himself with the kingdom’s castle.

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SUPER MARIO BROS WONDER

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a fictional species created for the Final Fantasy franchise by Square Enix (originally Square). A galliform bird commonly having yellow feathers

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CHOKOBO

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CREATOR FINAL FANTASY

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SAKAGUCHI

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COMPOSER FINAL FANTASY

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UEMATSU

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2023 FINAL FANTASY

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XVI

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a Belgian independent video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Swen Vincke.[3] Headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, Larian focuses on developing role-playing video games but has previously worked on educational games and casino games.[4] It is best known for developing the Divinity series and Baldur’s Gate 3.

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LARIAN

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2023 puzzle adventure game developed by Geometric Interactive and published by Annapurna Interactive. The player controls a beetle that can hop between worlds, solving puzzles to unravel the universe’s mysteries.

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COCOON

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an American video game developer based in Burbank, California and part of PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software, and was renamed Insomniac Games a year later. The company is most known for developing several early PlayStation mascots, Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, as well as the Resistance franchise, 2014’s Sunset Overdrive and the Marvel’s Spider-Man series with Marvel Games. In 2019, the studio was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment, becoming a part of SIE Worldwide Studios (now known as PlayStation Studios).

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INSOMNIAC

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a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt, and based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk tabletop game series.

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CYBERPUNK 2077

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2020 takes place in the fantasy world of Teyvat, home to seven nations, each of which is tied to a different element and ruled by a different god (archon). The story follows The Traveler, an interstellar adventurer who, at the start of the game, is separated from their twin sibling after the two land in Teyvat. Thereafter, the Traveler journeys across the nations of Teyvat in search of the lost sibling, accompanied by their guide, Paimon. Along the way, the two befriend myriad individuals, become involved in the affairs of its nations, and begin to unravel the mysteries of the land.

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GENSHIN IMPACT

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2023 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux and published by Ubisoft. The game is the thirteenth major installment in the Assassin’s Creed series and the successor to 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

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ASSASSINS CREED MIRAGE

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a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.[2] In the game, the player character joins a group of space explorers who must venture to various corners of the galaxy to acquire mysterious artifacts. The game features an open world in the form of an area within the Milky Way galaxy, containing both fictional and non-fictional planetary systems.

Starfield takes place in a space-themed setting, and is the first new intellectual property developed by Bethesda in 25 years.[3] It was described by director Todd Howard as “Skyrim in space”. Like Bethesda’s previous games, it was powered by the Creation Engine, though it was heavily modified to accommodate the game’s procedural generation system. Active development of the game started following the release of Fallout 4 in 2015.

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STARFIELD

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a 2023 fishing video game developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17. The game follows a fisherman who encounters increasingly Lovecraftian creatures as he ventures out further into an open world archipelago

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DREDGE

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s a narrative cooking video game developed and published by Visai Games. The story begins in 1988 and follows an immigrant couple settling down in Canada and adjusting their day-to-day lives in the new environment.[2] The player controls the titular character, NAME REDACTED an Indian woman who moves with her husband to Toronto, where they eventually have a son. The game draws heavily from Tamil culture and South Indian cuisine.

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VENBA

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2022 action-adventure game developed by Isometricorp Games and published by Finji. It is set in a ruined fantasy world, where the player controls an anthropomorphic fox on a journey to free a fox spirit trapped in a crystal

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TUNIC

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a roguelite video game developed by indie developer Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released on 11 August 2022 for macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The game follows a lamb who is saved from death by a god-like stranger named “The One Who Waits”, and must repay their debt by creating a loyal following in its name.

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CULT OF THE LAMB

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a 2019 action-adventure game developed by FromSoftware. It was released in Japan by FromSoftware and internationally by Activision for the PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One in March 2019 and for Stadia in October 2020

follows a shinobi known as Wolf, who attempts to take revenge on a samurai clan that imprisoned him and kidnapped his lord. The gameplay is focused on stealth, exploration, and combat, with a particular emphasis on boss battles. It takes place in a fictionalized Japan during the Sengoku period and makes strong references to Buddhist mythology and philosophy. Lead director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to create a new intellectual property (IP) that marked a departure from their Dark Souls series, looking at games such as Tenchu for inspiration.

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SEKIRO SHADOWS DIE TWICE

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2022 GOD OF WAR SUBTITLE

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RAGNAROK

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2022 GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK - SON OF KRATOS

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ATREUS

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a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on 18 February 2022.

The sequel to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn, is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States recovering from the aftermath of an extinction event caused by a rogue robot swarm. The player can explore the open world and complete quests using ranged and melee weapons against hostile machine creatures.

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HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST

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The game is based on the fictional model turned actress Marissa Marcel (Manon Gage) who had starred in three movies from 1968, 1970, and 1999 but which were never released. Marcel has since gone missing, creating a mystery for the player to solve. 2021

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IMMORTALITY

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2022 adventure game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. The story follows A cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria, and sets out to return to the surface with the help of a drone companion, B-12

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STRAY

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LAST OF US 2 NEW CHARACTER

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Abby

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Makes last of us

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naughtydog

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a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets. Set five years before Half-Life 2 (2004)

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half life alyx

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Hades character

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zagreus

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a free-to-play platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic and published by Epic Games. The game involves up to 40 players who control bean-shaped characters and compete against each other in a series of randomly selected mini-games called “rounds” such as obstacle courses and survival challenges

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fall guys