History VideoGame / DeepFear

* [[spoiler:VasquezAlwaysDies: Anna looks like she can hold her own, right? Heck, she even catches a cold, which was established to prevent John from turning himself, so she's totally gonna be fine. Oh, wait, no, she's turned into a monster, and you have to kill her. Figures. (For what it's worth, though, even the ''less'' macho women end up dying too.)]]

* CurbStompBattle: The Navy SEALs don't last very long against the monsters and are wiped out within a minute or two.

* BareYourMidriff: Sharon wears a shirt that does this.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:John survives and puts a stop to the virus before it can spread to the rest of the planet... but fails to save any of the other characters.]]

* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler: Gena realizes the errors of her ways after she's gunned down by John when she attacks him after turning into a monster. She gives him the key to activate the self-destruct and motivates him to leave in the escape pod after he laments being unable to save even her. She also pulls a TakingYouWithMe on Anthony when he tries to get in the escape pod with John.]]

* HopeSpot: Nearing the start of Disc 2 a fellow survivor catches a cold. It had been established earlier that [[spoiler:a cold is what's stopping the infection from affecting John; thus, you'd think the same could be said for her]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:she still ends up becoming a monster shortly afterwards.]]
** Well, [[spoiler: she '''thought''' she had a cold...]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: John, Andrew the dolphin, and Rambo the bulldog are the only survivors of the game's events.]]

''Deep Fear'' is VideoGame/ResidentEvil '''[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN THE OCEAN!]]''' The main feature that sets it apart from Resident Evil is that it has an OxygenMeter that decreases as you move. To complicate matters, certain areas have less air than others, so time is of the essence.

''Deep Fear'' is VideoGame/ResidentEvil '''[[RecycledInSpace IN THE OCEAN!]]''' The main feature that sets it apart from Resident Evil is that it has an OxygenMeter that decreases as you move. To complicate matters, certain areas have less air than others, so time is of the essence.

* BodyHorror

* LoadBearingBoss: ''Three'' of them.

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Mooky.]]

* ShoutOut: It can't be a coincidence that a game made by Sega takes place in the Sea Fox. (The name of Tails' submarine in VideoGame/TailsAdventure.)

* StalkerWithACrush: Sharon to John.

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The music is composed by Kenji Kawai [[HeAlsoDid who also composed]] ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.

* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: John, Andrew the dolphin, and Rambo the bulldog are the only survivors of the game's events.]]

* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: Gena's final mutation is that of a winged, green-skinned woman. Oh, and her voice echoes and she glows so hard she can blind you.]]

* [[spoiler:WeaksauceWeakness: As it turns out, ''the common cold'' is an effective vaccine for the mutant virus. It also has some weakness to oxygen, but that's actually a weakness of many microscopic organisms, so it's not as bad.]]

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: John survives and puts a stop to the virus before it can spread to the rest of the planet... but fails to save any of the other characters.]]

* SanitySlippage: Commander Clancy undergoes this late in the game. [[spoiler:He goes from wanting to save all the other survivors on base to leaving everyone else to die by taking the SEALs' DSRV while ranting about killing the remaining survivors from the cruise ship he sank.]]

* ShoutOut: It can't be a coincidence that a game made by Sega takes place in the Sea Fox. (The name of Tails' submarine in TailsAdventures.)

* PainfulTransformation: Victims of the virus go through a pretty painful metamorphosis with random abscesses and growths erupting from various parts of the body, which the game excitedly shows off in the [=CGI=] cutscenes from multiple camera angles. At one point, a victim's [[{{Squick}} fingernails start popping off]] for no real plausible reason other than to disgust the audience.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The music may be the only genuinely good thing about the game, but the songs rarely seem to match the tone of the scene they're in.

WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} did [[AlternateDVDCommentary their usual schtick]] on a longplay of the game. View it [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4M1tlpv9rs56eGswbent2N36ntnTnsO here]].