History VideoGame / DarkVoid

Not related to [[{{VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl}} Darkrai's]] [[NamesTheSame signature move]].

* ActionCommands: In order to hijack an enemy [[FlyingSaucer 'hubcap']], you have to do one of these. However, you use the control stick to dodge its turret fire, your melee button to damage a panel, and the control stick to struggle with the pilot once he pops up to knock you off. This makes it a rare example of an ActionCommand that makes sense, and therefore doesn't annoy the player or break immersion. Also, you destroy [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot monsters]] by scrambling over them prying at weak points.

* ApocalypticLog: Contains many, scattered throughout the game, often in somewhat hard-to-reach spaces. The first logs you encounter were apparently written by UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart. Some of the logs are very old (detailing the plight of what appear to be irish immigrants to the Americas[[note]]i.e. the continent prior to the formation of the United States, that's how old we're talking[[/note]]), whilst others are much more recent, such as...

* AwesomeMcCoolName: ''William Augustus Grey''.

* [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Édouard Daladier Was An Alien Spy]]: It doesn't get any more literal than this one, folks...

* JetPack: The game's main selling point. [[CaptainObvious It is awesome]]. In case you ever forget that [[IWantMyJetpack You Want A Jetpack]], this game will remind you exactly WHY.

* ShoutOut: The achievement for flying between the legs of an Archon is "[[StarWars Forgot my Towcable]]." (Keep in mind, flying between an Archon's legs will probably also get you killed, if not by the turrets, then by running into the ground or hitting the Archon's tail.)

** The Resistance fightercraft bear a strong resemblance [[StarWars to a certain Incom-produced snubfighter.]]
* SuperSargassoSea: Loads of stuff that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle ended up in the Void. Grey actually salvages some radio equipment from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyclops_(AC-4) USS Cyclops.]]

Apparently, the Watchers fashion themselves as gods, ruling over the less advanced humans after they destroyed their own home planet,before primitive man eventually rose against them and banished them to the Void. Soon, Will and Ava meet up with UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, who has also found himself trapped in the Void. He equips them with hoverpacks, and Will eventually gets a true {{jetpack}}. He takes to the skies, to stop the Watchers before they return to Earth, taking advantage of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII coming conflict]]. There's something else going on, and Ava knows more than she's telling...

The game is notable for seamlessly integrating third-person over-the-shoulder cover-based gunplay with jetpack dogfights, and has the unique feature of 'vertical cover'. It's also one of [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'s "Branston Pickles" - flawed, but unique and entertaining despite those flaws. So try it anyway.

A 2010 game, developed by Airtight Games, and published by {{Capcom}}.

** There's even an 8-bit game called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Void_Zero "Dark Void Zero"]] that was released for download on the DSi, treated as some old game found in the Capcom vaults. It started as a joke based off the 8-bit song, then grew into a {{Metroidvania}} game.

* {{Badass}}: William Gray.

* DerelictGraveyard: The Void has a bunch of these. Some of them are ships in locations and positions that one really would not expect to find a ship in. The mostable derelict in the graveyards would probably be the ''U.S.S. Cyclops'', which disappeared in the BermudaTriangle some time after March 4th 1918.

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[[caption-width:233:Rise Up.]]

* ApocalypticLog: Contains many, scattered throughout the game, often in somewhat hard-to-reach spaces. The first logs you encounter were apparently written by AmeliaEarhart. Some of the logs are very old (detailing the plight of what appear to be irish immigrants to the Americas[[note]]i.e. the continent prior to the formation of the United States, that's how old we're talking[[/note]]), whilst others are much more recent, such as...

** BandOfBrothers: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19 Flight 19]], an entire flight of WW2 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers. They're mostly rookies, save for a couple of higher-ranking pilots.

** "[[IronMan She handles like a dream!]]"
** "[[StarWars Stay on target...]]"

Apparently, the Watchers fashion themselves as gods, ruling over the less advanced humans after they destroyed their own home planet,before primitive man eventually rose against them and banished them to the Void. Soon, Will and Ava meet up with NikolaTesla, who has also found himself trapped in the Void. He equips them with hoverpacks, and Will eventually gets a true {{jetpack}}. He takes to the skies, to stop the Watchers before they return to Earth, taking advantage of the [[WorldWarII coming conflict]]. There's something else going on, and Ava knows more than she's telling...

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: The Watchers are manipulating the powers of Earth into WorldWarII. Will is the SpannerInTheWorks that mucks all their plans up, though.]]

* NikolaTesla: He invented the JetPack and some of the weapons you use in the game. [[spoiler: He is killed by a shapeshifter about 3/4 of the way through the story]].

* TwoFistedTales: You play as AcePilot William Augustus Grey, TrappedInAnotherWorld enslaved by AncientAstronauts. ItsUpToYou to SaveBothWorlds. NikolaTesla is here too - ''and the first thing he gives you'' is an '''[[IWantMyJetpack awesome]]''' '''''JetPack!''''' {{Squee}}!
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Will and Ava give no discernible reaction to the fact that they meet NikolaTesla himself.

* ApocalypticLog: Contains many, scattered throughout the game, often in somewhat hard-to-reach spaces. The first logs you encounter were apparently written by AmeliaEarhart. Some of the logs are very old (detailing the plight of what appear to be irish immigrants to the Americas[[hottip:*:i.e. the continent prior to the formation of the United States, that's how old we're talking]]), whilst others are much more recent, such as...

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The game was completely overshadowed by ''Dark Void Zero'', which was only supposed to be promoting ''Dark Void''. Probably because ''Zero'' used old-school ideas that just plain work, instead of trying to mash together two ideas that don't work. The same exact thing also happened to the new ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' and its promo game, ''Bionic Commando Rearmed''. Guess which one now has a sequel.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The different Watcher soldiers come in different colors to distinguish their specialty and behavior.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: A textbook case of TropesAreNotBad. You're playing along, wondering if they're ever going to vary up the enemies a little -- holy crap it's [[{{Godzilla}} King Ghidorah]]!

** BandOfBrothers: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19]], an entire flight of WW2 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers. They're mostly rookies, save for a couple of higher-ranking pilots.

** BandOfBrothers: Flight [=PT-91=], an entire flight of WW2-era fighter/bomber craft of obscure make/model. They're mostly rookies, save for a couple of higher-ranking pilots.

* DerelictGraveyard: The Void has a bunch of these.

* [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Édouard Daladier was an Alien spy]]: It doesn't get any more literal than this one, folks...

The game is notable for seamlessly integrating third-person over-the-shoulder cover-based gunplay with jetpack dogfights, and has the unique feature of 'vertical cover'. It's also one of [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'s "Branston Pickles" - flawed, but unique and entertaining despite those flaws. So try it anyway.

[[caption-width:233:Rise Up]]

->"''Dark Void's only new idea was the ability to seamlessly switch at any time between old-fashioned, ploddy tortoise cover-based shooting on the ground and rocket pack whoosh crikey fun. And you know what? That could be enough.''"
-->--'''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'s''' [[http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Void review]]

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Will and Ava give no discernible reaction to the fact that they meet [[PunctuatedForEmphasis NIKOLA. FREAKING. TESLA.]]

The game begins in 1938, with ex-military pilot William Augustus Grey (voiced by NolanNorth who seems to play all the male video game protagonists these days) and his former lover Ava making a cargo run from America to Europe, when their plane loses power and crashes over the BermudaTriangle. They awaken in a bizarre [[AnotherDimension alternate dimension]], known as "The Void." They soon meet up with The Survivors, a human resistance movement that is fighting the attacks of a strange reptilian race known as "The Watchers" and their robotic army.

Some time after the game was released an AprilFoolsDay version entitled ''Dark Void Zero'' was announced as a joke, but eventually surfaced into an [[DolledUpInstallment entirely new game]].

* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler: Will and Ava. This troper knew she was doomed the moment she started talking about them sitting together, watching the sunset, on her favorite bench in London, as soon as both of them escaped the Void]].

* CosmicDeadline: ''Worse'' than {{Fahrenheit}}, in case you never though that possible. The first third of the game preps you on [[TakeCover cover-based shooting]] and eases you into the eccentricities - hovering, vertical cover, etc... before giving you the promised JetPack. The second third is your cannonball playground, though it feels sparse at times, as if there's story you're missing - The Ark was obviously supposed to be the HubLevel, but you just move from there to the next stage via {{Time Skip}}s. The final third has two awesome stages - one where you blow the s#!+ out of a monster the size of Manhattan ''while inside its stomach'', and the final boss battle is an [[OldSchoolDogfighting Old School Dogfight]] against a '''freaking three-headed dragon'''. Except... ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment there's no buildup!]]''. Your [[spoiler: MadScientist friend is killed without fanfare]], an OracularUrchin throws a prophecy at you, and your character gains undefined MagicAndPowers ''solely to fight the final boss''. The [[SpottingTheThread thread]] that proves it? The first "episode" had six levels. The other two have '''four'''.
-->'''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee:]]''' ''The developers planned out a HUGE EPIC GAME, the various components of their studio started working on all the little bits of the HUGE EPIC GAME, and then they ran out of laundry powder or whatever it was and had to string together all the little unfinished bits into something vaguely sellable. They wrote a script for Lord of the Rings and ended up having to perform it with finger puppets.''

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: The Final Boss is only several dozen times the size of Will. However, he has MagicAndPowers [[CosmicDeadline for some reason]], so it's all good.]]

Not related to [[{{PokemonDiamondAndPearl}} Darkrai's]] [[NamesTheSame signature move]].

** Let's not forget what the power output of Tesla's Hypercoil weapon is... you guessed it: [[BackToTheFuture 1.21 Gigawatts]]