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2 unusual facts about PC game


Jake Perrine

His sole credit for voice acting is in the PC game Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand, where he plays the devious art dealer / artifact smuggler Taylor Sinclair.

Septembre

The band has the single "I Am Weightless" featured in the video game Need For Speed Underground 2 for PS2, Xbox and PC versions.


Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey

Dreamfall Chapters is being developed for personal computers by Red Thread Games, an independent studio founded by Ragnar Tørnquist, who wrote and directed the previous two games, under the license from Funcom, the owners of The Longest Journey IP.

Flip-screen

The flip-screen technique was particularly common in PC games originally made for the ZX Spectrum, such as Atic Atac, Jet Set Willy, and Starquake, due in part to the Spectrum's display limitations which meant that full colour scrolling was difficult to implement convincingly - Light Force being a notable exception.

Six degrees of freedom

Some examples of true 6DoF games, which allow independent control of all three movement axes and all three rotational axes, include Shattered Horizon, the Descent franchise, Retrovirus (PC game), Miner Wars and Forsaken.

Tr3s Lunas

It was released in 2002 with a bonus CD containing a demo program for a PC game, Tres Lunas.


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Alazon

In PC game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there is a non-playable character named Miles Gloriosus, willing to brag about his accomplishments as soldier.

Ashes Cricket 2013

The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and retail PC game platforms were also cancelled.

Azai Nagamasa

Additionally, Nagamasa returns as an Heir to the Asai Clan in the fan created Samurai Warlords Mod (aka the Shogun Mod) for the PC game Medieval Total War.

Back into Your System

Enhanced CD also features a playable demo of the PC game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

Chip butty

The chip butty made appearances both as a power-up in the video game Earthworm Jim 2 and as a house in the PC game The Neverhood, introducing the dish to foreign gamers.

Dahomey Amazons

The unit is also depicted in (a special edition of, and now DLC of) PC game Empire: Total War.

Eric Trautmann

In 1999 he became a content developer for Microsoft’s Franchise Development Group, where he wrote and edited story bibles for a variety of Xbox and PC game properties, including MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, Allegiance, Crimson Skies, and Halo.

Freeciv

At the Computer Science department at Aarhus University, three students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

Gaelic Storm

A Simlish version of the song, Scalliwag, from the album Bring Yer Wellies, was recorded and featured on the World music channel in the expansion pack, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, for the popular PC Game, The Sims 2.

Gearbox Software

Additional new development, in the form of a PC game in the James Bond franchise (James Bond 007: Nightfire) for Electronic Arts, also occurred during the company's initial 5-year period.

GOW2

Gears of War 2, the Xbox 360 exclusive sequel to the Xbox 360 and PC game Gears of War

Hellboy: Asylum Seeker

It is a port of the PC game titled Hellboy: Dogs of the Night (or sometimes just Hellboy, depending on where it was released), developed by Cryo Studios North America, a subsidiary of Cryo Interactive of France, and released in late 2000 to early 2001.

I Spy Spooky Mansion

I Spy Spooky Mansion is a search and find PC game created in 1999 by Scholastic based on the I Spy books.

I'm So Sick

An adapted version of this song is featured in the PC game The Sims 2

Icewind Dale

The PC game does not follow the events of R. A. Salvatore's the Icewind Dale Trilogy novels, as it takes place in a different century—thus characters such as Drizzt Do'Urden, Bruenor Battlehammer, and others do not appear.

Jazz Jackrabbit 3

Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D, subtitled Adventures of a Mean Green Hare) is the unreleased third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit.

NEC PC-9801

Despite having hardware specifications far inferior to the Fujitsu FM Towns and Sharp X68000 personal computers, the massive install base and steady flow of game titles (in particular "dōjin" style dating sims and RPGs, as well as early games of the Touhou Project franchise) kept it as the favored platform for PC game developers in Japan until the rise of the DOS/V clones.

Neverwinter

Other products will include a new MMORPG PC game taking place 100 years after the events of Neverwinter Nights 2, a roleplay adventure game and a board game.

PlanetCrap

Its origins can be traced back to unreal.org, one of the early Web forums to spring up for the PC game Unreal.

Puckle gun

In the 2009 PC game Empire: Total War, the Puckle Gun is available as a unit in the late 18th century.

Sailing to the World

Sailing to the World is an album arrangement by composer Yasunori Mitsuda of the soundtrack from a little-known Taiwanese PC game that Mitsuda scored called Seventh Seal.

Star Control II

Music is in Protracker-MOD format which uses digitized instrument samples while most of PC game music still relied on FM-synthesis based instruments at the time.

Stardock Central

While Stardock Central started development in 2001, it got its biggest test in March 2003 when Galactic Civilizations was launched simultaneously at retail and online — the first commercial PC game to debut in both venues at once.

Tom Paterson

He was one of the characters featured in the PC game, Beanotown Racing.

Vallendar

A city named "Vallendar" is included in the PC game Call of Duty 2.

Wings Over Israel

Wings Over Israel (AKA Combat Over Israel in some European market) is a PC game (Combat / Flight Simulator) covering the three major Middle Eastern conflicts Six-day War (1967), Yom Kippur War (1973) and Lebanon War (1982).

World of Mixed Martial Arts

The World of Mixed Martial Arts (WMMA) is a PC game designed by Adam Ryland and Grey Dog Software, the makers of the Total Extreme Warfare series.