History VideoGame / Inversion

* AmazonBrigade: The Lutadores' ruler surrounds himself with burly, buxom women in heavy, yet form-fitting armor. Naturally, they're some of the ''only'' Lutadore women [[spoiler:who aren't insane, screaming {{Knife Nut}}s.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Just before the final chapter, as Davis and Leo are about to be executed by the Lutadores, Banks and the freedom fighters burst into the Lutadore home dome and start shooting up the place, breaking Davis and Leo free.]]

* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: Once Kiltehr is killed, the entire Lutadore civilization pretty much surrenders immediately.]]

* AdultFear: Davis's only motivation is the hopes of finding his daughter who went missing during the invasion. Davis and Leo eventually come across the bodies of a family with a daughter of their own, which leaves David visibly shaken.

* FollowTheLeader: The game borrows so much from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' that you could make a drinking game out of it.
** It also has some similarities to ''VideoGame/ArmyOfTwo''

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}''.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The Inversion's computer says that the ship is only a year away from its destination]]. So, something is planned a year after the game ends. Also, after the credits, [[spoiler: a figure is seen crawling out of the shaft that Davis and Kiltehr fell down.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Lutadore are stopped, but Vanguard City and the other habitat domes are in shambles. Davis Russell is dead, and his daughter turns out to have been killed at the beginning, making his entire quest pointless.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The Inversion's computer says that the ship is only a year away from its destination]]. So, something is planned a year after the game ends.

To say that it [[FollowTheLeader borrows heavily]] from ''GearsOfWar'' is an understatement. Besides the almost identical cover-based shooting game mechanics (including the "roadie run" and dodge-rolling), the character design, weapons (especially the blade-bayonet rifle), and art style are incredibly similar to ''Gears''.

* BodyguardBabes: Kiltehr, the Lutadore leader, has an AmazonBrigade of EliteMooks female bodyguards who look easily as bulky as [[GearsOfWar Marcus Fenix]].

* TheGoomba: Lower-tier Lutadores are relatively skinny and actually look more or less like normal people, compared to the mainstay Lutadores, bulked-out meatheads who all look like ''GearsOfWar'' rejects. They have about half as much health as the larger Lutadores, and are much less common in the last few levels of the game.

* ShortRangeShotgun: Averted, unlike the ''GearsOfWar'' version the shotgun has surprisingly good range and can effectively kill enemies at long range, although it often requires 2 shots.

* BashBrothers: Davis and Leo manage to out-Bro [[ArmyOfTwo Salem and Rios]] while they do their bashing.

Not to be confused with ''{{Eversion}}''.

* OneWordTitle

* SchizoTech: Invoked; Leo and the freedom fighters have a discussion about how the Lutadores, savages who can barely speak, have high technology that can manipulate gravity. Answered later: [[spoiler: they discovered the truth about their world and stole the technology from the worldship, which is ''much'' more advanced than the civilizations in itsdomes.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The Inversion's computer says that the ship is only a year away from its destination.]]

* TakeCover: Gameplay is heavily modeled on ''GearsOfWar''. The most noteable difference is that most cover is destroyable, which forces you to swap cover fairly often.
* TakingYouWithMe[=/=]SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: [[spoiler: After being backed into a corner by Davis and Leo, Kiltehr sets the Inversion worldship to self-destruct, pretty much deciding that if he's going down, he's going to take every single habitat dome down with him.]]
* TitleDrop: In the opening cutscene, Davis says his life has undergone an "inversion" when describing how his life has been completely turned upside down by the Lutadore invasion. Later in the game, [[spoiler: it's revealed that the worldship which everyone is unknowingly living inside is called the Inversion.]]

* FollowTheLeader: The game borrows so much from ''GearsOfWar'' that you could make a drinking game out of it.
** It also has some similarities to ''ArmyOfTwo''

* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened to the Lutadores' [[spoiler: home dome]] to turn it into a living hell.

* RaisedByOrcs: The Lutadore have been kidnapping Vanguard's children; Davis and Leo theorize they're doing this because they can't have children of their own. [[spoiler: Though it's never confirmed, the fact that their home dome is a shattered hell world and most of their women are feral, shrieking maniacs would lend credence to the theory.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The Inversion's computer says that the ship is only a year away from its destination.]]