History VideoGame / BrokenHelix

* PlasmaCannon: All of the game's weapons, sans grenades and stun beams.

* TheGhost: A marine lieutenant can be heard negotiating with Fitz at the beginning of the game, but he's never seen because he's outside the facility.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The marine lieutenant mentioned in TheGhost section above is never heard or mentioned again after Burton defuses the bombs.

* LudicrousGibs: Averted; while killing an enemy with ANY weapon will cause him/her/it to explode into pieces, they leave no blood pools.

The year is 2026. Fitz, a renegade scientist, has taken over Area 51 and threatens to blow it up unless his demands, 2 million dollars, a private jet, and a televised interview are met.

** Plot Line 4: However, if Burton chooses to lead the marines and NOT defuse the bombs, [[spoiler:he and his team captures Fitz, meet Jenkins, and kill both Reese and the aliens. Burton ends up back-stabbed and [[DownerEnding blown up]] in a helicopter.]]

* FireBreathingWeapon: And one that uses [[AristicLicensePhysics energy cells instead of gas canisters]].

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* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The hybrids are essentially zombies. Except they can talk like a normal human, albeit with a distorted voice.

* ActionGirl: There are female marines, all of which are [[{{Expy}} expies]] to [[Film/{{Aliens}} Vasquez]].

* ActionGirl: One of the marines is female.

* {{BFG}}: The female marine carries one.

* BlackComedy: All of the game's [[BondOneLiner one-liners]]. Some of the game's dialogue are this, too.

* {{Expy}}: The sergeant is clearly a [[Film/FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]-wannabe. The marines (except Burton, Black Dawn, and Jenkins) are certainly spoofs/imitations of the colonial marines from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.

* HighlyVisiblePassword: The password for the computer containing the [[TitleDrop Broken Helix]] files are not asterisked out.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played with. [[spoiler: The government is more than willing to kill the aliens just for the sake of maintaining security. Reese's scientists on the other hand attempts to protect the aliens to give them a new life and to develop a cure for the mutants. Fitz doesn't seem to care about them. The government however, is [[AliensAreBastards right]] in many ways; if Burton failed to protect Reese (if he chooses to help him), the aliens will flee from Earth with their queen. Then she [[EarthShatteringKaboom orders]] [[ApocalypseHow the nearby alien ships to destroy it]].]]

* LargeHam: Fitz and Burton, especially when they're angry. And [[CaptainObvious obviously]], the sergeant.

* MeleeATrois: Between marines, scientists (Fitz's [[spoiler:or Reese's]]), and aliens. [[spoiler: Burton can join either of them.]]

** Plot Line 3: [[spoiler:escort a reporter to interview Fitz then protect Fitz and evacuate the facility, only to be [[DownerEnding killed by a nearby fighter plane]].]]
** Plot Line 4: However, if Burton chooses to lead the marines and NOT defuse the bombs, [[spoiler:he and his team captures Fitz, meet Jenkins, and kill both Reese and the aliens. Burton ends up getting back-stabbed and [[DownerEnding blown up]] in a helicopter.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Trying to kill one of Fitz [[spoiler:(or Reese)]]'s scientists in his command center will result with him and his scientists attacking you. The same goes to the marines and the aliens.

* SchmuckBait: [[spoiler:Be careful using those two elevators that are wired by explosives. Fortunately, in the first three plot lines, Fitz disables the charges, allowing you to proceed further.]]

* PlotArmor: Averted, and somehow played straight with Black Dawn; the game justifies this when Burton is told that he (Black Dawn)'s wearing an experimental armor that protects him from all forms of attacks, [[spoiler:except the alien weapon.]]

''Broken Helix'' is a 1997 PlayStation third person shooter game by {{Konami}}'s short-lived Chigaco studio.

The government responds by sending a [[SemperFi U.S. marine]] platoon to infiltrate the facility. Escorting them is another marine, demolitions expert Pvt. Jake Burton (the PlayerCharacter, voiced by BruceCampbell), who is ordered by an unknown man via telephone to defuse the bombs located in the facility.

The game's main claim to fame is that all of it happens in real time (something referred to as "4D" in promotional material); enemies and NPCs in the gameworld are alway "active" and the clock for time-based events ticks down even when it's not obvious to the player.

* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the game, Burton has a photo of his father. [[spoiler:Burton can only be granted access to Reese's lab if he shows Reese the photo.]]

* DieHardOnAnX: The game is ''Die Hard'' on Area 51.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Occurs if [[spoiler: Reese dies and the queen is still alive, at least in the first plot line. The aliens escape from Earth and their queen has it blown up.]]
* {{Expy}}: The sergeant is one to [[FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]. Most of the marines are certainly spoofs/imitations of the colonial marines from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.

* TheGhost: A marine lieutenant can be heard negotiating with Fitz at the game's start, but he's never seen because he's outside the facility.
* GunsAkimbo: Black Dawn and [[spoiler:Jenkins in the second plot line]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why Burton [[spoiler:gets hunted down by the marines (in the first three plots) and killed in the fourth ending.]]
* HighlyVisiblePassword: The password for the computer containing the [[TitleDrop Broken Helix]] files isn't asterisked out.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played straight ''and'' subverted. [[spoiler: The government is more than willing to kill the aliens just for the sake of maintaining security. Reese's scientists on the other hand attempts to protect the aliens to give them a new life. The government however, is [[AliensAreBastards right]] in many ways; if Burton failed to protect Reese (if he chooses to help him), the aliens will flee from Earth with their queen. Then she [[EarthShatteringKaboom has the]] [[ApocalypseHow planet destroyed]].]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: The hybrids, and [[spoiler:Burton if he chooses to join the aliens.]]
* LargeHam: Fitz and Burton, especially when they both get angry. And [[CaptainObvious obviously]], the sergeant.

* MeleeATrois: Between U.S. marines, scientists (Fitz's [[spoiler:or Reese's]]), and aliens. [[spoiler: Burton can join either of them.]]

** Plot Line 1: [[spoiler:find the files for Project Broken Helix, give it to Fitz, and meet up with Reese. Then he must [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure blow up the facility]], kill both the marines and the alien queen, and finally evacuate the facility as the alien mothership departs. Burton and his wife [[GoldenEnding retire to a tropical island while Reese disappeared, never to be seen again]].]]

** Plot Line 3: [[spoiler:escort a reporter to interview Fitz then protect Fitz and evacuate the facility, only to get [[DownerEnding killed by a nearby fighter plane]].]]

* PlotArmor: Averted, and somehow played straight with Black Dawn; the game justifies this when Burton is told that he (Black Dawn)'s wearing an experimental armor that protects him from all forms of attacks, [[spoiler:except the alien weapon]].

* SemperFi: Subverted. The marines serve as [[spoiler:the villains in the game]]. Still, they're very powerful and hard to beat.

* TitleDrop: The title refers to Project Broken Helix, a [[spoiler:biological experiment to create [[HalfHumanHybrid alien/human hybrid]] [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]]]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Trying to kill one of Fitz's scientists in his command center will result with him and everyone in the room attack you until you're dead.
* VillainProtagonist: Burton, if he [[spoiler:chooses to lead the marines]].

* WireDilemma: Averted and justified; Burton is a demolitions expert.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The marine lieutenant mentioned in TheGhost section above is never heard or mentioned again in the game's later parts.