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* TooDumbToLive: Some civilians decide to run straight into the attacking zombies instead of to the helicopter 20 feet away. [[WordOfGod A news post at Blendogames's website]] describes how civilians run either A) Towards the helicopter, or B) Away from the nearest zombie, and in both cases [[ArtificialStupidity ignoring whatever might be in the way]].
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** ''VideoGame/GravityBone'', an early freeware game by the same developer, is also set in the city of NuevosAires.Aires.
** A panel in the intro sequence depicts a destroyer from {{Flotilla}}, another game of the developer.
** ''VideoGame/GravityBone'', an early freeware game by the same developer, is also set in the city of Nuevos
** A panel in the intro sequence depicts a destroyer from {{Flotilla}}, another game of the developer.
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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Landing the helicopter near zombie entry point may let you save more civilians... but if you mismanage it could also mean you just fed people to the zombie horde.
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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Landing the helicopter near zombie entry point points may let you save more civilians... but if you mismanage it could also mean you just fed people to the zombie horde.horde.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's highly improbable that there are no territories with Zeds on a given turn, but there are small scientists bonus and dedicated messages there just in case.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's highly improbable that there are no territories with Zeds on a given turn, but there are small scientists bonus and dedicated messages there just in case.
* UnstableEquilibrium: There are Victory Points milestones rewarding each side at determined amounts. The game tends to snowball in favor of whoever reaches theirs first (the tech tree for the player, increased amount and virulence of zombie invasions for the zeds).
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* PyrrhicVictory: Rescuing just the minimum amount of civilians required will often result on the zeds outscoring the player on that mission. On the late game, not scoring a huge amount of points can feel like this because the zeds ''will'' catch up quickly thanks to them infecting territories for free each turn.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Rescuing just the minimum amount of civilians required will often result on the zeds outscoring the player on that mission.mission, even though it was "won"[[hottip:*:Should you lose and/or concede defeat properly, though, your mercs will not earn any experience]]. On the late game, not scoring a huge amount of points can feel like this because the zeds ''will'' catch up quickly thanks to them infecting territories for free each turn.
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* MadeOfExplodium: Later on some buildings will explode violently if struck by artillery, because of ruptured gas pipes.
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* ContinuityNod: Gravity Bone, GravityBone, an early freeware game by the same developer, is also set in the city of Nuevos Aires. It's an adventure game that pushes the style of 1960s spy movies to absurdity.
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* ColorCodedArmies: Yellow dots for civilians, purple dots for Zed. Infantry squads are shown as a green dot inside a large bubble representing their line of sight.
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* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Most often than not, you will just have to sacrifice some civilians to rescue the rest, especially at the very first mission, which cannot be won perfectly (this is, by killing all zombies, which automatically saves all civilians).
* ExcusePlot
** On the other hand, high level artillery with researched upgrades can be potentially more powerful than Elephantbird. Then there's the Triplets mutator, which lets you take more than one of them...
* MercyKill: If you know you won't save the few remaining civilians, it's just better to nuke them, since zombies get points for each infection.
* MooksButNoBosses: For the most part of the game. All, if you don't count BossInMooksClothing
* MooksButNoBosses: For the most part of the game. All, if you don't count BossInMooksClothing
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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Landing the helicopter near zombie entry point may let you save more civilians... but if you mismanage it could also mean you just fed people to the zombie horde.
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A [[RealTimeStrategy real time strategy]] game by Blendo Games, released in 2011. Sold Included in the most recent Humble Indie Bundle.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/azs-main_6360.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''The only thing preventing the zombie apocalypse is 90 million tons of nuclear warheads. And you.'']]
A [[RealTimeStrategy real time strategy]] game by Blendo Games, released in 2011. Sold in the most recent Humble Indie Bundle.
Set in the 1960s, in [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Nuevos Aires]], AZS tasks the player with evacuating as many people as possible, before they're overrun by the emerging [[NotUsingTheZWord Zed]] hordes.
To accomplish this, the player is given control of a rescue helicopter, as well as various mercenaries, capable of fighting the Zed.
That... and orbital nukes.
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* ColorCodedArmies: Yellow dots for civilians, purple dots for Zed. Infantry squads are shown as a green dot inside a large bubble representing their line of sight.
* CoolHelmet: One of the characters shown in the page image, [[NoodleIncident "Animal"]] Smith, is always wearing his Viking helmet.
** Subverted in the final cutscene: [[spoiler:Smith's child with Adele Deering has small horns growing from its head.]]
* ContinuityNod: Gravity Bone, an early freeware game by the same developer, is also set in the city of Nuevos Aires. It's an adventure game that pushes the style of 1960s spy movies to absurdity.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In a minor example, it's occasionally possible to rescue everyone in a city, avoiding the SadisticChoice.
* ForMassiveDamage: Your artillery not doing enough damage to the bunch of enemies there? Rescue some more civilians and kill some more Zed, unlock a firing of the Catbird Cannon and pulverize everything in a large radius.
** Then there's the "Elephantbird," a massive artillery gun that replaces all other mercenaries on your roster. Both fall under MacrossMissileMassacre, with the Elephantbird firing more shells with far greater accuracy and reloading near instantaneously. It's sadly only available for use once an in-game year, while the Catbird is available every round after being unlocked.
* GiantMook: Arriving later on in the game, they are essentially [[BossInMookClothing Bosses in Mook Clothing.]] Only explosive damage can harm them.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The intermissions.
* NintendoHard: Oh so much, and from the very beginning, mark it.
* NuclearOption: They're called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Llama Bombs]].
* NotUsingTheZWord: Oddly enough, it's used once in the opening cutscene but never again during gameplay.
* PointBuildSystem
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: A large part of the challenge.
* SaveScumming: Your game saves every time you win, lose, or concede a level, making it impossible to 'undo' an action. Unless you realize that, as noted [[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1987955 here]], your savegames are saved in the AppData folder. Amazing how much FakeDifficulty can vanish when you can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong?
* [[SniperRifle Sniper Rifles]]: One mercenary unit is a team of snipers set up on a rooftop. While you can tell them which direction to shoot in, you can't target individual enemies, and they stop shooting while rotating to a new position.
* TooDumbToLive: Some civilians decide to run straight into the attacking zombies instead of to the helicopter 20 feet away.
* TopDownView: Justified, as you're working for '''Orbital''' Command. A lot of your artillery is fired from [[KillSat Kill Sats]], after all.
* VideogameCaringPotential: So you've evacuated the city, but there is still one little fellow left behind. You'd better try your hardest to save that little dot from a terrifying death by zombies.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential (as well as SadisticChoice): ...on the other hand, accidentally (and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "accidentally"]]) blowing up civilians close to the zombies is not infrequent. The nature of the game also means choosing which civilians to evacuate, and which become zombie fodder. The author has stated that putting the player in a position of making difficult decisions is part of the design.
* ZergRush: At night, zombies come swarming in from every single entrance to the city.
** There are also monthly modifiers that can shorten the length of a day or make the zombies run even faster (thankfully, you can't get both at once).
* ZombieApocalypse: Played with, as some of the background material that can be unlocked suggests people have been dimly aware of the zombies' existence for decades. They've simply never posed a threat to civilization before.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''The only thing preventing the zombie apocalypse is 90 million tons of nuclear warheads. And you.'']]
A [[RealTimeStrategy real time strategy]] game by Blendo Games, released in 2011. Sold in the most recent Humble Indie Bundle.
Set in the 1960s, in [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Nuevos Aires]], AZS tasks the player with evacuating as many people as possible, before they're overrun by the emerging [[NotUsingTheZWord Zed]] hordes.
To accomplish this, the player is given control of a rescue helicopter, as well as various mercenaries, capable of fighting the Zed.
That... and orbital nukes.
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!!Provides examples of:
* ColorCodedArmies: Yellow dots for civilians, purple dots for Zed. Infantry squads are shown as a green dot inside a large bubble representing their line of sight.
* CoolHelmet: One of the characters shown in the page image, [[NoodleIncident "Animal"]] Smith, is always wearing his Viking helmet.
** Subverted in the final cutscene: [[spoiler:Smith's child with Adele Deering has small horns growing from its head.]]
* ContinuityNod: Gravity Bone, an early freeware game by the same developer, is also set in the city of Nuevos Aires. It's an adventure game that pushes the style of 1960s spy movies to absurdity.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In a minor example, it's occasionally possible to rescue everyone in a city, avoiding the SadisticChoice.
* ForMassiveDamage: Your artillery not doing enough damage to the bunch of enemies there? Rescue some more civilians and kill some more Zed, unlock a firing of the Catbird Cannon and pulverize everything in a large radius.
** Then there's the "Elephantbird," a massive artillery gun that replaces all other mercenaries on your roster. Both fall under MacrossMissileMassacre, with the Elephantbird firing more shells with far greater accuracy and reloading near instantaneously. It's sadly only available for use once an in-game year, while the Catbird is available every round after being unlocked.
* GiantMook: Arriving later on in the game, they are essentially [[BossInMookClothing Bosses in Mook Clothing.]] Only explosive damage can harm them.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The intermissions.
* NintendoHard: Oh so much, and from the very beginning, mark it.
* NuclearOption: They're called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Llama Bombs]].
* NotUsingTheZWord: Oddly enough, it's used once in the opening cutscene but never again during gameplay.
* PointBuildSystem
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: A large part of the challenge.
* SaveScumming: Your game saves every time you win, lose, or concede a level, making it impossible to 'undo' an action. Unless you realize that, as noted [[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1987955 here]], your savegames are saved in the AppData folder. Amazing how much FakeDifficulty can vanish when you can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong?
* [[SniperRifle Sniper Rifles]]: One mercenary unit is a team of snipers set up on a rooftop. While you can tell them which direction to shoot in, you can't target individual enemies, and they stop shooting while rotating to a new position.
* TooDumbToLive: Some civilians decide to run straight into the attacking zombies instead of to the helicopter 20 feet away.
* TopDownView: Justified, as you're working for '''Orbital''' Command. A lot of your artillery is fired from [[KillSat Kill Sats]], after all.
* VideogameCaringPotential: So you've evacuated the city, but there is still one little fellow left behind. You'd better try your hardest to save that little dot from a terrifying death by zombies.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential (as well as SadisticChoice): ...on the other hand, accidentally (and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "accidentally"]]) blowing up civilians close to the zombies is not infrequent. The nature of the game also means choosing which civilians to evacuate, and which become zombie fodder. The author has stated that putting the player in a position of making difficult decisions is part of the design.
* ZergRush: At night, zombies come swarming in from every single entrance to the city.
** There are also monthly modifiers that can shorten the length of a day or make the zombies run even faster (thankfully, you can't get both at once).
* ZombieApocalypse: Played with, as some of the background material that can be unlocked suggests people have been dimly aware of the zombies' existence for decades. They've simply never posed a threat to civilization before.
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