History VideoGame / DarkEarth

The game is se in of those stalies, Sparta, and follows Arkhan, a guardian of fire. One day during the job, he gets infected with a dark disease after preventing the assassination of the great priestess Lori. The disease's most obvious effect is Arkhan's slow tranformation into a monster of darkness. It's then up to him to uncover to truth behind the priestess' assassination and find a cure.

* StripperIffic: JustifiedTrope for [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/leora.png Delia]] as she is an exotic dancer in the underbelly of the city.

''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC developed by Kalisto Entertainment and published by Creator/MicroProse. The game released in 1997, and spawned its own tabletop RPG circa 2003 (though the rpg is French only).

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''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC developed by the French video game company Kalisto Entertainment and published by Creator/MicroProse. The game released in 1997, and spawned its own tabletop RPG circa 2003 (though the rpg is French only).

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The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, caused by a bunch of meteorites hiting the earth, destroying major cities and causing a huge cloud of dust and ashes to clog most of the sky. This prevents sunlight from reaching the ground, save for a couple of sacred spots, called stalites, where the last survivors of the human race, the walkers, built huge cities in the glory of the Sun God.

* CyberPunk: Dark Earth is set TwentyMinutesInTheFuture (the disaster happen on 2054). As such the world was a cyberpunk dystopia (down to mohawked, bionic 'roid boys in the opening) before the meteor hit.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Arkhan destroys Thanandar and banishes the darkness, ultimately saving the day. However, his father, best friend, and possibly his girlfriend and others are dead. It's ambiguous whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan, resurrect the other characters.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Arkhan destroys Thanandar and banishes the darkness, ultimately saving the day. However, his father, girlfriend and others are dead. It's ambiguous whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan, resurrect the other characters.]]

* WretchedHive: Sparta has a deplored area called Lower City where scavengers and other criminals hang out. However, the relationship between the higher-ups of the city and the experienced scavengers had been amicable due to the point that the Guardians generally left the businesses of scavengers alone as they were generally harmless in their endeavour on collecting relics in Darklands.

* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place after meterorites destroyed the Earth's major cities, causing a cloud of dust obscuring sunlight.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Arkhan destroys Thanandar and banishes the darkness, ultimately saving the day. However, his father, girlfriend and others are dead. It's ambiguous whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan, resurrect the other characters.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Even thought the dark disease disfigured Arkham, it still made him stronger and definitely more intimidating as the disease progresses.

* TheDarkSide: If Arkhan lets the dark disease progress too much, he will become more monterous, gaining one or two feet in height and a decent share of muscle mass.

* FutureImperfect: Compact discs over the years have become misinterpeted as mirrors from Before, due to the reflective side and lack of computers.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Or rather exotic-dancer for Delia as she performing dance with her [[StripperIffic "attire"]], who is generally friendly to Arkham--so long as she was provided with a mirror (actually a CD rom)--and her boss Maor.

* {{Jerkass}}: When in dark mode, Arkham can be quite agressive when he speaking to other characters ("Hi wheely" when talking to a guy in a wheel chair or "You look pretty stupid in that cage" when speaking to a prisonner), this can be used to intimidate characters if they refuse to cooperate.

* WretchedHive: Sparta has a deplored area called Lower City where scavengers and other criminals hang out. However, the relationship between the higher-ups of the city and the experienced scavengers had been amicable due to latter's resources and former's hands-off policy towards them.

* StripperIffic: JustifiedTrope for [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/leora.png Leora]] as she is an exotic dancer in the underbelly of the city.

* VideoGameFlameThrowersSuck: Averted, the most powerful weapon in the game is a flamethrower. Though it's overkill if you use it on anything other than the boss.

* DeathWorld: What the Earth has become, the only safe places are the Stallites which have protection from the Runka presence. Bad enough that there's tremendous ecological damage and near-Ice Age conditions, it gets worse as creatures of darkness emerge. Dark Earth is almost like the early stages of Literature/TheNightLand

* GunsAreWorthless: Averted. "Thunderbolts" are the pre-disaster guns and even the little one you get can from Zed will OneHitKill many enemies. The crude spitrods that are made now, can pack a significant punch.

''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC developed by the French video game company Kalisto Entertainment and published by Creator/MicroProse. The game released in 1997, and spawned its own tabletop RPG circa 2003.

* FutureImperfect: Compact discs over the years jave become misinterpeted as mirrors from Before, due to the reflective side and lack of computers.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: As a result of years following the apocalypse, many aspects of tue world are misinterpeted, such as the sunlight being considered a blessing of the Sun God and compact discs viewed as mirrors.

[[caption-width-right:252:The apocalypse may have happened but I still have a funky bandana and [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} cool claws]]]]

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Said apocalypse caused by a bunch of meteorites hiting the earth, hitting major cities first and causing a huge cloud of dust and ashes to clog the sky, preventing the sunlight from ever reaching the ground, save for a couple of sacred spots, called stalites, where the last survivors of the human race, the walkers, built huge cities in the glory of the Sun God.

The player takes the role of Arkhan, a guardian of fire, who gets infected with a dark disease after preventing the assassination of the great priestess Lori. The disease's most obvious effect is to turn Arkhan into an ugly as sin monster. It's then up to him to uncover to truth behind the priestess' assassination.

* TheDarkSide: If Arkhan lets the dark disease progress too much, he will become even more monster-like and gain one or two feet in height and a decent share of muscle mass.
* JekyllAndHyde: The player can shift the hero from light to dark behavior by pressing Tab. This makes Arkhan go from [[NiceGuy nice guy mode]] to absolute [[AxCrazy ax crazy]].

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: If the player wants to, you can kill any non-key NPCthat isn't required to progress the main quest.

The player takes the role of Arkhan, a guardian of fire, who gets infected with a dark disease after preventing the assassination of the great priestess Lori. The disease's most obvious effect is to turn Arkhan into an ugly as sin monster. It's then up to him to uncover to truth behind the priestess's assassination, despite having a face that now looks like it fell from the ugly tree and hit every branches on the way down.

!!This video game provides examples of:

''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC, released in 1997 by Creator/MicroProse. It was developed by the French video game company Kalisto Entertainment, which went out of business in 2002. The game spawned its own RPG circa 2003.

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Said apocalypse caused by a bunch of meteorites hiting the earth, conveniently hitting major cities first ([[Film/{{Armageddon}} sounds familiar?]]) and causing a huge cloud of dust and ashes to clog the sky, preventing the sunlight from ever reaching the ground, save for a couple of sacred spots, called stalites, where the last survivors of the human race, the walkers, built huge cities in the glory of the Sun God.

* AfterTheEnd: Did I mentioned it was a post-apocalyptic game?
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Even though Arkhan saves the day, his father, his girlfriend and pretty much all his significant others are dead. However, it's up to interpretation whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan at the end, resurrect the other characters.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: When in dark behavior mode, Arkham can be quite a jerkass when he speaks to other characters ("Hi wheely" when talking to a guy in a wheel chair or "You look pretty stupid in that cage" when speaking to a prisonner).

* UglyGuyHotWife: Arkhan's girlfriend is kinda hot.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: If the player wants to, he can kill pretty much all his friends.

[[caption-width-right:252:The apocalypse may have happened but I still have a funky bandana and [[{{Wolverine}} cool claws]]]]

''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC, released in 1997 by MicroProse. It was developed by the French video game company Kalisto Entertainment, which went out of business in 2002. The game spawned its own RPG circa 2003.

* {{Badass}}: Even before being infected with the dark disease, Arkham was more than a decent fighter. The curse made him even stronger and granted him the ability to kill almost any foe in one blow (however, this mighty blow worsens the progression of the disease quite a bit).
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Even though Arkhan saves the day, his father, his girlfriend and pretty much all his significant others are dead. However, it's up to interpretation whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan at the end, resurrect the other characters.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: If the player wants to, he can kill pretty much all his friends.

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Said apocalypse caused by a bunch of meteorites hiting the earth, conveniently hitting major cities first ([[Film/{{Armageddon}} sounds familiar ?]]) and causing a huge cloud of dust and ashes to clog the sky, preventing the sunlight from ever reaching the ground. Save for a couple of sacred spots, called stalites, where the last survivors of the human race, the walkers, built huge cities in the glory of the Sun God.

The player takes the role of Arkhan, a guardian of fire, who gets infected with a dark disease after preventing the assassination of the great priestess Lori. The disease most obvious effect is to turn Arkhan into an ugly as sin monster. It's then up to him to uncover to truth behind the priestess assassination despite having a face that now looks like it fell from the ugly tree and hit every branches on the way down.

* {{Badass}}: Even before being infected with the dark disease, Arkham was more than a decent fighter. The curse made him even stronger and granted him the ability to kill almost any foe in one blow (however this mighty blow worsen the progression of the disease quite a bit).
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Even thought Arkhan saves the day, his father, his girlfriend and pretty much all his significant others are dead. However, it's up to interpretation whether the Runkas, the friendly aliens who cure Arkhan at the end, resurrect the other characters.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Even thought the dark disease disfigured Arkham, it still made him stronger and definitly more intimidating as the disease progresses.
* TheDarkSide: If Arkhan let's the dark disease progress too much, he will become even more monster like and gain one or two feet in height and a decent share of muscle mass.
* JekyllAndHyde: The player can shift the hero from light to dark behavior by pressing Tab. This makes Arkhan goes from [[NiceGuy nice guy mode]] to absolute [[AxCrazy ax crazy]].

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Guns still exist in this world but they are rare and so are the ammo. If the player is in a pinch, or just for the heck of it, he can shoot the ennemies who almost always have melee weapons.

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Said apocalypse caused by a bunch of meteorites hiting the earth, conveniently hitting major cities first ([[{{Armageddon}} sounds familiar ?]]) and causing a huge cloud of dust and ashes to clog the sky, preventing the sunlight from ever reaching the ground. Save for a couple of sacred spots, called stalites, where the last survivors of the human race, the walkers, built huge cities in the glory of the Sun God.

This video game provides examples of:

''Dark Earth'' is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC, released in 1997, which spawed its own RPG circa 2003. It was from the French game development company Kalisto Entertainment, which went out of business in 2002.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Arkhan's girlfriend is kinda hot.
* AfterTheEnd: Did I mentioned it was a post-apocalyptic game ?
* WhatTheHellHero: If the player wants to, he can kill pretty much all his friends
* JekyllAndHyde: The player can shift the hero from light to dark behavior by pressing Tab. This makes Arkhan goes from [[NiceGuy nice guy mode]] to absolute [[AxCrazy ax crazy]].
* TheDarkSide: If Arkhan let's the dark disease progress too much, he will become even more monster like and gain one or two feet in height and a decent share of muscle mass.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Guns still exist in this world but they are rare and so are the ammo. If the player is in a pinch, or just for the heck of it, he can shoot the ennemies who almost always have melee weapons.
* {{Badass}}: Even before being infected with the dark disease, Arkham was more than a decent fighter. The curse made him even stronger and granted him the ability to kill almost any foe in one blow (however this mighty blow worsen the progression of the disease quite a bit).