Abomination: The Nemesis Project is a 1999
Real-Time Strategy/Action game developed by British studio Hothouse Creations and published by
Eidos Interactive. The game is a
Spiritual Successor to the
X-COM series, but is far more action-packed. Also, instead of fighting an
Alien Invasion, the player fights
The Virus.
This game provides examples of:
- A.K.A.-47: Subverted. Most weapons featured keep their real names.
- Apathetic Citizens:
- The civilians don't seem to mind the fact that you are fighting a giant mutant plasma crab, they are too busy walking in front of it.
- Earliest example you see is when the cultists are pursuing killing citizens. After you have killed the cultists, you can see the surviving ones casually keep walking like nothing has happened.
- Arm Cannon: Most of the Initiates have one or two plasma cannons replacing their arms.
- Artificial Stupidity
- Your "agents" sometimes downright refuse to do what you command them to do. Like retreating when faced with a dozen well-armed mooks.
- Sometimes when throwing grenades, they don't mind a grenade hitting an obstacle and bounce back in their face.
- The enemies are not much better. Enemies happily run in to others' line of fire, sometimes take a rocket to their back, killing themselves and the one who fires, or burn themselves to death with their buddy's flamethrower.
- Artificial Zombie: Initiates are frankensteins of male and female Brood plague infectees, with cybernetics filling the gaps.
- Bio-Augmentation: Each of the 8 Nemesis soldiers has a unique ability thanks to this.
- Alex "Ninja" Palmer: Neuro-transmitter Cloaking Implant (Invisibility Cloak)
- Jodi "Detonate" Fox: Explosive Molecular Manipulation - Can create explosives from everything she touches
- Karl "Creep" Wagner: Cellular Mimicry (Voluntary Shapeshifting)
- Marc "Viper" Rodriguez: Shield Generator (Deployable Cover)
- Matt "Savage" Lansing: Skeletal Strength Augmentation (Super-Strength)
- Nikki "Steel" Jonas: Enhanced Dermis Replacement Therapy (Made of Iron)
- Tony "Doc" Lewis: Active Biological Repair Agents (Healing Hands)
- Tori "Pyro" Wilde: Telepyrokinetics, though not the usual Playing with Fire, instead she can blow stuff up from afar.
- Body Horror: Every Brood enemy is a fine example of this.
- Initiates are decomposing "amalgams of a man and a woman, or more accurately the remains of them", fitted with cybernetic parts
- Satyrs are built (or bred) from human, canine and chameleon DNA and always operating in pairs, each possessing one human brain hemisphere.invoked
- Boring, but Practical:
- The abilities Extreme Strength and Damage Resistant of Savage and Steel, respectively. They are nothing fancy to look at, but having someone to lug around heavy stuff and a damage sponge to draw enemies fire is always useful.
- The AK47s offer middling damage and OK range, but have abundant ammo (since most enemies drop this when killed). They are the prominent firearms in stage 1, but become obsolete soon after that.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: When shot at, cars explode and kill things in the blast radius.
- Gatling Good: The guidebook for this game advises that you develop miniguns ASAP. It mentions that miniguns are the overall most effective weapon with high base damage, rate of fire and ammo supply putting it just over the Brood's mighty concussion cannon.
- Hollywood Silencer: Some pistols come with silencers by default, and they sound just like what you would expect. Even the massive Barrett sniper rifle (which in real life cannot be suppressed) also makes a standard Hollywood "poof" sound when fired.
- Ludicrous Gibs: You can turn enemies into this even without explosive weapons.
- Meat Moss: Starts out with bus stops crammed with organs and grows from there. The H.U.D. gets infected as well.
- The Plague: The disease the Faithful spread is an airborne form of Necrotizing Fasciitis. They also dope themselves with a retrovirus (by vivisecting a cultist and puking it all over his organs before stitching them back up) that counteracts the plague, but makes them become part of the Brood hivemind.
- Police Are Useless: A few cops try to help you and they do a good job when you're fighting cultists but once the creatures start to appear chances are you'll only meet their dead bodies.
- Super Soldiers: You control a squad of these, plus a few normal ones with specialized weapon training.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Satyr enemies can assume the appearance of civilians. Similarly, the "Cellular Mimicry" ability of agent Karl Wagner allows him to copy the appearance of humanoid enemies for a short while.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Has shades of this despite the monsters being very different from common zombies most of the time.
