Inside the core of all great videogames ever made, there are multiple inventive gameplay mechanics working their magic. And this article is about celebrating the most groundbreaking and influential gameplay mechanics that have, by virtue of their sheer ingenuity, also made way to an incredibly wide range of videogames. Ever since their debut, these 4 gameplay features have been adapted and implemented in so many different titles throughout the years that they’ve slowly carved their own footprints in videogame history, to the point that right now it's difficult to even imagine videogames without them. 4. Dynamic Cover: Before Gears of War introduced it’s Dynamic Cover system that allowed players to seamlessly move and position themselves in firefights without getting hit , there wasn’t much in terms of cover mechanism in both the first and third person shooter genres. They relied mostly on the good ol’ run-n-gun shooting and any element of cover was basically