Line #20 VideoGame/ThePrecursors


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2	''The Precursors'' (rus. ''Предтечи'') is a 2011 game by ''Deep Shadows'', the developer previously known for ''VideoGame/BoilingPointRoadToHell'' and ''White Gold: War in Paradise''. In it, the player takes the role of Treece Creighton, a young pilot of the [[HumanAliens Amarn]] race, who is fresh from the academy and is sent to work for the government of the Amarn colony at [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] Goldin. After several missions, the Amarn's home planet Casilla [[EarthShatteringKaboom mysteriously explodes]] and Treece is sent on a quest to find out [[ApocalypseHow how and why it happened.]]
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5	The game is a hybrid of a FirstPersonShooter, RolePlayingGame, StealthBasedGame, WideOpenSandbox and space-based SimulationGame. The player is free to navigate the open world on their own, [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou trade with merchants]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential extort them for money]], work for TheFederation, TheEmpire, or LaResistance, [[AdventurerArchaeologist investigate long lost ruins]] or just travel through space to land and play around in the various planets and space stations.
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8	!!This game provides examples of:
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10	%%* AnEntrepreneurIsYou
11	%%* ArtisticLicenseSpace
12	* AutomaticCrossbow: Useful as a stealthy ranged weapon. (HollywoodSilencer is averted in this game)
13	%%* BackStab
14	* CutShort:[[spoiler:Treece rescues Dr. Apertov and threatens to kill him for the destruction of Casilla by using the Precursor artifacts, but the doctor drops the bombshell that ''all'' the planets are in danger now, Casilla was an accident caused by the planet's artifact having its self-destruct mechanism triggered, and that a "pure-blooded Amarn" is the only being who can properly use the precursor artifacts and that Treece will need his help. The doctor then asks if Treece (and the player) wants to solve the mystery of the Precursors. What are the Precursors? Was that rotating triangle artifact in the base a Precursor? What is a "pure-blooded" Arman? Is ''Treece'' a pure-blooded Arman]]? No answers, because the game then smashes to credits and there's no sequel since Deep Shadows shut down due to financial problems.
15	* {{Precursors}}: With a religious cult devoted to them.
16	* DeathWorld: Planet Reandore. Driving from one point to another in ''that'' planet counts as a mission in its own right.
17	%%* GenreBusting:
18	* KleptomaniacHero: [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] don't react to thievery unless you pick a lock, hack a keypad or a computer. Even then, you can usually disable the alarm beforehand.
19	* RelationshipValues: One statistic for each major faction of the setting. Unlike in [[VideoGame/BoilingPointRoadToHell Boiling Point]] you won't be able to work for ''all'' of them.
20	* RPGsEqualCombat: Actually averted. You will have to fight to complete the game, but most missions can also be completed with stealth, or with diplomacy (If you have a good relationship with the faction you're going against).
21	%%* SceneryPorn
22	* SimulationGame: The "Space Travel" part of the game.
23	%%* SingleBiomePlanet
24	%%** SpaceIsNoisy
25	%%** StreamingStars
26	* StealthBasedGame: Though it's not always possible to be stealthy, most missions can be done like this.
27	* RPGElements: You have ExperiencePoints, and you choose a new ability with each level.
28	** There are hundreds of non-linear {{Sidequest}}s, many of them having multiple solutions.
29	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can kill, steal, and extort as much as you want. Many optional missions target people who really don't deserve it.
30	%%* WideOpenSandbox

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