killcam

plural killcams

1. video gamesA replay showing how a player or enemy was killed.

   If you die at the hands of another player, you can watch the killcam to see what happened.

   2014, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Limited Edition Strategy Guide, BradyGames, page 103

   3 more examples

   A moment later, using Deathefeather, I strike his demon’s long neck. The camera backs away to the killcam view, the Samurai striking hard at the exposed, taut neck of the horned demon.

   2014, Cole, Nick, Soda pop soldier, Harper Voyager, page 285

   It does exactly what one of its earliest reviewers promised: its ‘hyper-realistic, surgically accurate’ kill-camera (KillCam) “takes you inside your victim’s body to see precisely how your bullet will end his life’.

   2015, Bourke, Joanna, Deep violence : military violence, war play, and the social life of weapons, Counterpoint, page 191

   Upon being killed in a multiplayer game, the player is treated to a “killcam” replay that shows how the player was killed.

   2016, Thomas Payne, Matthew, Playing War - Military Video Games After 9/11, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, page 191