The game features strictly player versus environment action and emphasizes cooperation between players.

Children's games emphasize socialization or skill rather than winning and losing.

Both games had similar mechanics and emphasized a continuing storyline.

The games emphasize power hitting to different degrees.

The game emphasizes the importance of balance on multiple levels and has internal tensions.

The game emphasizes speed of play and reduced preparation over realism or detail.

The game emphasizes the importance of virtue, but leaves the practice ambiguous with no explicit point values and limited guidance.

The game emphasizes environmental combat, by way of using scripted traps or terrain features.

Deadline claims that the game will emphasize cinematic aspects surrounding the characters.

Other games, including Desert Storm, also emphasize stealth and cover.