Line #30 VideoGame/Dystopia


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2	''[[http://www.dystopia-game.com/ Dystopia]]'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} themed [[GameMod total conversion]] {{FPS}} of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', created by an amateur development team (now ''Puny Human Games'') and released to the public for free.
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4	''Dystopia'' places the player into tense combat situations in a high tech world spanned by computer networks. As either Punk Mercenaries or Corporate Security Forces the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to {{Cyberspace}}.
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6	Cyberspace is a three dimensional representation of the world's network. Inside cyberspace players will launch programs to [[HollywoodHacking hack]] into systems linked to the physical world while fighting off enemy hackers and defending critical systems. Gameplay progresses through inter-linked physical and cyberspace objectives, some are completed in either the physical world or cyberspace, others only by a well timed combination of the two.
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8	!!This game provides examples of:
9	* AllThereInTheManual: The game has quite a deep setting, but the only way to find about it is to read the (now defunct and archived at time of writing)[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191221163444/https://www.dystopia-game.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page wiki]].
10	* ArmCannon: The Heavy weapons
11	* ArmedLegs: The goomba stomp
12	* AttackDrone: The Spider Mine
13	* BodyArmorAsHitpoints: Armor has a certain hit point value and takes damage in place of some of your health, but it works differently. It takes double-damage from explosive weapons and half-damage from everything else. It also cannot be regenerated like health.
14	* BondOneLiner: The taunts. See the example on the page for a list.
15	* CloneDegeneration: Combat clones have a maximum lifespan around 20 minutes and lack several biological functions.
16	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Punks are red, Corporates are Blue.
17	* CombatMedic: Anybody with the mediplant implant is one of these.
18	* {{Cyberpunk}}
19	* {{Cyberspace}}
20	* {{Dystopia}}
21	* CrapsackWorld: Several areas of the world, one being New York City, which has been irradiated, the United States as a whole...(see below). Global Warming has been halted, at the cost of the atmosphere now being filled with UH-4, a compound that is carcinogenic to life. The ozone layer has been split into ozone spheres...the list goes on. The game doesn't have the name Dystopia for nothing.
22	* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States has now been split into the United Dominion of Canada, the North American Free States, and New Galilee.
23	* EnemyDetectingRadar: The TAC Scanner.
24	* EnergyWeapon:
25	** The Laser Rifle.
26	** Ion cannon too, more like 'Frickin Ion Beams'.
27	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
28	** The name.
29	** The cyberspace attack programs are called Hitscan, Projectile, and Shaft.
30	* ExplosiveLeash: The backstory to one of the maps has the Punks trying to remotely detonate a cortex bomb after a failed mission.
31	* FallenStatesOfAmerica: The US has been split into several different nations after the US fell due to its currency collapsing.
32	* FeelNoPain: Cloned soldiers have pain filters.
33	* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The menu at an abandoned coffee shop consists entirely of soy products.
34	* GatlingGood: Heavies can use one of these.
35	* GunsAkimbo: The Smartlock Pistols.
36	* HollywoodHacking
37	* IncrediblyLamePun: Some of these emitted by the heavy armor.
38	** Taunting in general: "I slept with your mother... board."
39	* InvisibilityCloak: Almost perfect but drains a lot of energy and thermal vision sees straight through it.
40	** Most people learn to spot cloakers quickly, so it's more used for disorientation than anything else.
41	* IShallTauntYou: Rampant. At players' choice.
42	* KatanasAreJustBetter
43	* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Generally easier to use and more versatile.
44	* LastStand: The Cortex Bomb
45	* LightningGun: The Tesla Rifle
46	* MagnetHands: Played straight with ladders and buttons, but averted with ledges.
47	* MegaCorp: Datatrust
48	* MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever: Defenders just have to hold out for twenty minutes.
49	* UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla: The Tesla Rifle
50	* NoArcInArchery: Bolts are unaffected by gravity.
51	* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: A good way to avoid fall damage is to grab a ledge or ladder.
52	* NukeEm: The Cortex Bomb is a miniature thermonuclear suicide bomb lodged in your brain that starts its countdown [[TakingYouWithMe as soon as your health drops below 25% of its maximum]].
53	* OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture: The Assault Rifle and Boltgun
54	* PhallicWeapon: One of the Ion Cannon's nicknames is the Giant Penis Laser.
55	* PinballProjectile: Bolts and grenades
56	* PointDefenseless: It's common for players to wander into the firing range of turrets without thinking, but if a player is prepared, they can be destroyed or avoided easily.
57	* PowerFist: Heavies use this instead of the swords that the other two classes use.
58	* RagdollPhysics
59	* RoboSpeak: Heavies
60	* {{Roboteching}}: Deliberately averted by having the rockets lose responsiveness over time.
61	* SecondaryFire: Contains all versions except for an unrelated secondary.
62	* ShellGame: The cyberspace box game in "Cybernetic"
63	* SpaceElevator: ISEC 01, 02, and 03 as well as Atlantis are conventional ones. There's also the space fountain, Tower of Babel.
64	* StealthPun: From the heavy armor again.
65	** After a rocket kill: "You need to be defragged."
66	* SuicideAttack: The Cortex Bomb
67	* VentPhysics: The first set of vents in "Silo"
68	* YourHeadASplode: The Cortex Bomb

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