- "Okay, let's keep moving."
The novelisations that have been published can be viewed on Mad Red X 12's deviantART
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Partially Available
- This War of Mine: An adaptation of This War of Mine. In the midst of a great war, a strange and varied group of people find themselves stuck together as they hide in a abandoned mansion. Cut off from any hope of rescue or recruitment into a gang or military squad, they must learn to work together in order to survive in a constant, brutal struggle for survival, day after day, no matter the cost. But in war, not everyone is a soldier. Can be read here or here.
- Half-Life: An adaptation of Half-Life. When a strange accident occurs in the labs of the underground Black Mesa Facility, twelve inhabitants of the complex must fight their way out against hostile aliens, mysterious assassins, and deadly obstacles. But it seems that this was no accident, and someone is watching them, and recording their every move. Will they escape and stop the alien invasion threatening Earth? Can be read here
- DmC: Devil May Cry: A Script Fix Fic of DmC: Devil May Cry. Can be read here.
Planned Novelisations
- BioShock
- Dino Crisis
- Fallout
- Silent Hill 4: The Room
- Terraria
- UFO: After Blank (mainly the first game)
- The "X-COM Trilogy":
These fanfics have contained examples of these tropes:
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Half-Life
- Action Survivor: Pretty much everyone.
- Adaptation Deviation: Quite a few are made from both Half-Life and Black Mesa, which both served as the main basis for the story.
- There are HECU marines stationed at Black Mesa, mainly as a Reassigned to Antarctica form of punishment posting. Among these marines is Adrian Shepard, who's already good friends with Gordon before the events of the novel.
- Adaptational Heroism:
- The HECU in the novel are the polar opposite from the HECU in the games, with their mission being to RESCUE the Black Mesa personnel rather than kill them, then shut down the portals to stop the aliens coming in. While many HECU soldiers are still shown as being violent Blood Knights, they are still doing the right thing and protecting others while mowing down aliens by the truckload.
- While any player familiar with Half-Life 2 onwards already know that the Vortigaunts are nowhere near as malevolent as they seem, the novel takes pains to show that they really were in a bad way before the Black Mesa incident, emphasizing their sympathetic traits. In the original game, the Vortigaunt slaves in Xen would attack Gordon Freeman on sight except in the first area of the factory, where they would only retaliate if Gordon attacked them first. In the novelisation, the Vortigaunt slaves in Xen are clearly shown to be oppressed and will never attack, and they even help the main characters progress by shutting down forcefields and alarms. The very first time that Gordon and Adrian find Vorts in Xen, they're being brutalized by a pair of Alien Grunts, several Vorts crying and begging for mercy. This is enough to enrage Gordon, who had previously only seen them as more alien Mooks to be shot at, to run and help them.
- Adaptational Name Change: Without outside knowledge of the game's lore, the characters end up giving different names to a few Xen creatures (with the exception of the Headcrabs, which are always identified by the proper name).
- Gordon refers to the Houndeyes as "Quadrapeds", while Adrian calls them "Assblasters".
- Gina calls the Vortigaunts "Greens" until corrected much later in the story.
- Alien Blood:
- Like in the games, the Alien Grunts and Alien Controllers bleed yellow. Most of the other Xen creatures, however, bleed blue, which they never did in the games.
- Averted with the Alien Slaves, better known as the Vortigaunts, who unlike in the games visibly bleed red. This change was primarily done to help show that they're not the mindless monsters they first appear to be.
- All Just a Dream: Averted. Jacob Redmann spends a lot of time praying that this is the case.
- Almighty Janitor: Reed Victors is a literal janitor at Black Mesa's civilian areas. He starts out with a mop that he can use as a improvised melee weapon, knows the building inside and out, and has the keys to every door.
- Ambiguous Time Period: Much like Freeman's Mind, none of the pop culture references go past a certain point (although in this case the year the references end is 2005 rather than 2000). Quake III: Arena and Unreal Tournament are mentioned, and Gordon recalls playing Team Fortress in the first chapter, but it's explicitly the original mod for Quake, not the Valve-produced successor or its legendary sequel.
- Angrish: The characters tend to fall into senseless angry shouting when at their most frustrated.
- Armies Are Evil: The HECU avert this thanks to their Adaptational Heroism. The Black Ops play this straight.
- Armor Is Useless: Averted through and through. If you don't have a HEV Suit, a PCV, or even just a Security Guard helmet and kevlar vest, you're probably dead.
- "Ass" in Ambassador: When Gordon first encounters a Vortigaunt, he assumes by its bipedalism and more intelligent movements that it's some kind of ambassador for the aliens and attempts to communicate with it. It's only when it attacks him that he realises they're not here to make peace.
- Bad Boss: Wallace Breen is mentioned to be a obnoxious prick who enjoys entering the same games as his employees specifically to ruin them for everyone else. Anyone who knows Half-Life 2 will already know he's going to get even worse than this.
- Dumb Muscle: The HECU marines at Black Mesa are treated as this by the scientists. Gordon also thinks they're obnoxious (Adrian being the only exception).
- Nice Guy:
- Gordon Freeman, barring his Insufferable Genius tendencies.
- Adrian Shepard, of the Lovable Jock variety.
- Shout-Out: Very frequently.
- In the first chapter, Quake III: Arena, Unreal Tournament, and the original Team Fortress mod for Quake are mentioned as the many online games the Black Mesa employees play in their spare time.
- In the (upcoming) second chapter, Gordon describes the plot of a movie Adrian mentions watching as "something I'd imagine Coomer writing".
- Weapon-Based Characterization: Each of the twelve main characters have their own unique melee weapon.
- Gordon Freeman: The series' iconic Crowbar.
- Adrian Shepard: A Pipe Wrench, which he later modifies with a improvised bayonet.
- Barney Calhoun: The Black Mesa security standard Nightstick with a battery attached to it.
- Gina Cross and Collette Green: Bats, a baseball bat for Gina and a cricket bat for Collette.
- Reed Victors: A Mop with a knife attached to it.
- Jacob Redmann: A fire axe.
- Walter Bennett: A frying pan.
This War of Mine
- Adaptation Deviation:
- All of the survivors from the original game save for Livia (who later becomes their Sixth Ranger) are together as the group from the start, taking shelter in a bombed and broken mansion.
- Lydia and Kalina are the children of Marko and his wife Alina, and Boris's wife Ana and their son Luka are still alive.
- The story is set 20 Minutes into the Future, and Graznavia is one of the many smaller nations formed in Europe after the collapse of the European Union. The war is between at least three other nations as well as Graznavia, and Anton is worried that it may soon escalate into World War III.
- Badass Bookworm: Anton and Marin.
- The Leader: Anton has taken on this role to the group.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Roman and Boris's rather brutal killing of the attempted rapist soldier at the Mall.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Let's see; an old maths teacher with skills in tinkering and quick-thinking, a cat burglar skilled at sneaking around quietly, a gigantic but good-natured shelf stocker who can utterly destroy foes if he needs to, a grumpy cook who's skilled at turning almost anything into a meal, a devoted father and his young daughter,
DmC: Devil May Cry
- Adaptational Heroism: While the classic Dante is still a hero, he has no seen interest in protecting humanity despite what his backstory claims, turning down helping people with demon problems if it doesn't sound interesting enough to him, looking bored and disinterested when normal humans die right in front of him, and at one point in the anime not even bothering to save a man from being killed by a demon at arm's length. The original reboot's Dante is even more disinterested in mankind, only being interested in taking out his anger on the demons who make his life hell. This incarnation of Dante, by contrast, is introduced saving two strangers from being mugged by demons for no reason other than his own altruism, and throughout the story actively tries to protect humans from angels and demons whenever possible, even if he causes things to go awry due to his recklessness and arrogance.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Dante, compared to how he was in the original reboot - and considering he's still something of a Jerkass, that's saying something.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Unlike in the game, Dante has a prominent streak of white hair from the start. Vergil also has a similar black stripe through his hair.
- Decomposite Character: The demon king Mundus and his human alter-ego Kyle Ryder are here split into two different characters - the Big Bad Sealed Evil in a Can and his human Dragon.
