How to Use cutscene in a Sentence

cutscene

noun
  • The map, the characters, and the cutscenes are still largely intact.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Then, there is just one more cutscene that’s a must-watch before The Final Shape.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The problem was that each of these played out in a nearly identical way with a short cutscene.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • Takei's many cutscenes in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
    Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • There is a brief cutscene where the woman uses a rabbit patronus to chase away dementors, but that’s it.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • While most players can skip the cutscene and resume the game, those playing on kid mode are forced to watch Spidey die over and over as the cutscene continually reloads.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • In a series of events that are part cutscene and part gameplay, Drake jumps from the jeep and hooks onto a crane hanging off one of the pursuing vehicles.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • By the third and fourth games, there were even full-motion video cutscenes starring Hamill, which really brought Wing Commander to life in a way most gamers had never seen before.
    Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
  • But playing on a modern computer can lead to situations like the one in the above video, where Spider-Man fails to fly through a window and falls to his doom during a cutscene.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • According to Game Informer, the one story mission its reporter played ran about 30 minutes not including the cutscenes.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 13 June 2023
  • Fixed crash when using text-to-speech during extraction cutscene Game no longer crashes when users disconnect during the joining cutscene.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • His finishing moves in the games often involve a camera crew, and some of his cutscenes feature him interacting with his own action figure.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2023
  • Both characters make appearances in cutscenes and can be heard in different Zombies maps across the franchise’s history.
    Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That leads to discordant cutscenes in which characters don’t seem to actually react to what others are saying.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The game lays it on thick, with cutscenes bordering on comedy that tout Earth’s united and militaristic regime, having already plundered the galaxy.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Upon completion of that round, players are whisked back in time via a cutscene before deploying directly into the 1984 version of Verdansk for a round of battle royale.
    Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Instead, any meaningful explanation is reserved for a cutscene with Yara much later in the game, a decision some say functions more like a plot device than any genuine payoff.
    James Bigley Ii, Wired, 24 June 2021
  • The story, while rich with lore and intrigue, isn’t spelled out through cutscenes, but must instead be pieced together through close-reading item descriptions and environmental clues like enemy and area design.
    Tim Brinkhof, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • Nemesis had several branching paths and different endings based on your decisions made in cutscenes, and those elements are totally absent here.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The answer here is immersion: A game built using the best interactive storytelling methods including story discovery and real-time interactive cutscene techniques will always be more compelling if it is played instead of watched.
    Barry Jenkins, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021

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