Give (computer game)
Give [ dʒɪb ] (abbreviation of English giblets , guts', 'guts') is a common among computer gamers term (single) for body parts and remains of a figure (eg. As a piece of arm, intestines, brain, etc.). The term is mainly used in the first person shooter genre, where the name of a special game mode is derived from this term (see InstaGib ).
Analogous to this, there is the verb “gibben” or the adjective “gibbed”, which describes the violent, bloody killing of a game figure, which is usually broken up or given into its individual parts. The possibilities or circumstances when a pawn is given vary. In Quake, a character gives up either by reducing the HP to below −40, by a fatal quad damage hit or by a telefrag . The very drastic and bloody representations are on the one hand viewed as a feature (realism), but in their more extreme forms often also serve to consciously shock, to attract attention or to provoke (compare splatter ).
The issue is important in the controversy that flares up again and again about the so-called " killer games ", in which it is used (and sometimes abused) by critics as an argument against violent computer games. In versions of various computer games that have been defused for the German market, gibs are partially or completely removed from the games in order to prevent indexing (and the associated sales restrictions and thus certain economic death) of the game.
