A gaming system is provided, the gaming system including a terminal including an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game and display a received wager result separately of the entertainment game; a first and second real world engine constructed to provide a wager result in response to a wager request; and a game world engine connected to the entertainment software engine, the first and second real world engine using a network, the game world engine constructed to: receive a request for a wager for a player of the entertainment game, each request being triggered by a player action taken while playing the entertainment game in head-to-head competition; communicate, the first and second wager requests; receive a first and second wager result; and generate, based on the first and second wager result, a controlled sequence of a portion of the entertainment game, the controlled sequence changing the state of the entertainment game.