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n. (context video games English) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another. vb. 1 (context video games transitive English) To compete against in a deathmatch. 2 (context video games intransitive English) To take part in deathmatch gaming.
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Deathmatch, or more appropriately, Free-For-All (FFA, also called DM or Player vs All) is a widely used gameplay mode integrated into many shooter and real-time strategy (RTS) video games. Normally the goal of a deathmatch game is to kill (or "frag", from the military term) as many other players as possible until a certain condition or limit is reached, commonly being a frag limit or time limit. Once one of these conditions is met, the match is over and the winner is the player that accumulated the greatest number of frags. It is an evolution of the competitive multiplayer modes found in genres such as fighting games and racing video games.
Deathmatch or Death Match may refer to:
Usage examples of "deathmatch".
It was at that juncture that the senior officers there present decided that the choice should be left to the Lord God, that, while Lord Klaios' panoply was being fetched to him from the city, I should take Hahkmukos back to his tent and assist him in arming for a deathmatch to decide who would be confirmed thoheeks.
Abruptly the virtual vacuum outside the window is full of bodies, most of them human, contorting and writhing and morphing in mock-combat as half the kids pitch into the virtual deathmatch: it's a gesture in the face of the sharp fear that outside the thin walls of the orphanage lies an environment that really is as hostile as Lilly's toasted avatar would indicate.