History Headscratchers / ShadowComplex

** It happened because Orson Scott Card didn't write the game. Peter David would hardly agree with pretty much anything Orson Scott Card would have to say about politics, and it's most likely a case of TheyJustDidntCare; whether that's a good thing or a bad thing likely depends on if you liked the novel or not.

**** Because that would be a really crappy game. How fun would it be to grab the armour and then immediately have a killswitch activated so you can't move and then a guard comes over and shoots you in the head, game over?

** The most workable explanation is that the Omega Armor is still a work in progress and the suits of it we see are two of less than ten or less in existence, probably with engineers still adding tweaks and smaller features to figure out the optimum load. Since everyone in the complex thought they were too well-hidden for any outside threats to find them, perhaps they never bothered installing one on that suit because they didn't see a need and wanted to spend their time on other things. It's insinuated that the armor we see the standard Restoration soldiers wear is itself a lesser form of powered armor (you can overhear two guards talking about it, one will even complain that he's tech-illiterate and has to have a buddy help him calibrate his own armor because it goes over his head.) If they were actually producing the Omega armor in any kind of numbers yet, you'd think you'd see some EliteMooks wearing it.

* Okay, in this game, the villains are basically a cross between Cobra and PNAC and couldn't be more blatantly Conservative if they wore giant flashing neon signs on their helmets reading "I'm a Conservative." So why is it that in ''{{Empire}}'', which was '''written to promote this game''', the villainous organization "The Restoration" is suddenly the Liberal "Progressive Restoration"? It doesn't make any sense. Liberals can be bad, yes, but the rhetoric about restoring America to a Golden Age where it was the "greatest country in the world", and establishing an empire that will rival Rome is distinctly Conservative rhetoric, rather than Liberal or politically neutral.
** Not to mention that this isn't nearly the only thing that doesn't line up. Reading a plot summary, for starters, the Vice President is killed in ''{{Empire}}'' simply by a dump truck backing into his car. We don't see exactly how the Vice President dies in ''Shadow Complex'', but it involves an ''explosion'', so it's not that.

** Related to the above, why do they insist that ''Shadow Complex'' still ties into ''{{Empire}}'' and its sequel, when they're some sort of right-wing bizarro universe version of the ''Shadow Complex'' universe?

*** Except they should have realized it the moment he broke into the first omega suit vault and security system kicked in and moved the suit to a new vault, allowing Jason to just barely grab the jetpack for himself. There's even a cutscene of Lucius watching Jason over a security feed! So the BigBad knows at this point that Jason is a serious threat, fully capable of breaking into their most secure vaults and stealing their most advanced tech, and that he must have killed several dozen soldiers to get that far, and yet he still doesn't take him seriously?

* The vault where the Omega Armor was initially being stored bugs me. Ignoring the man-sized air vents since those are standard issue in fictional villainous hideouts, the front door to the vault is appropriately protected for such a valuable item - elite soldiers, energy barriers, unbreakable vault doors. So why the hell is there a giant unguarded hole right above the armor? You do have to sneak past two elite guards, but then you just drop in the through the completely unexplained hole in the vault roof and grab the suit, easy as pie. That has got to be the most absurdly obvious security flaw I have ever seen. Whoever designed that vault should be used as target practice.

** The most workable explanation is that the Omega Armor is still a work in progress and the suits of it we see are two of less than ten or less in existence, probably with engineers still adding tweaks and smaller features to figure out the optimum load. Since everyone in the complex thought they were too well-hidden for any outside threats to find them, perhaps they never bothered installing one on that suit because they didn't see a need and wanted to spend their time on other things. It's insinuated that the armor we see the standard Restoration soldiers wear is itself a lesser form of powered armor (you can overhear two guards talking about it, one will even complain that he's tech-illiterate and has to have a buddy help him calibrate his own armor because it goes over his head.) If they were actually producing the Omega armor in any kind of numbers yet, you'd think you'd see some EliteMooks wearing it

** They didn't realize it until it was far, far too late for that and he had already gathered most of said tech -- notice that through nearly the entire game, they treat Jason as some two-bit spy who is no match for their training and equipment, and only start to take him even remotely seriously about the time they lock him into a room rigged to explode.

* Jason is only able to win because he steals all of the Restoration's advanced prototype super weapons to use against them. Ignoring why none of these devices had an override switch built into them, why didn't the Restoration just give all that gear to their best soldier and send him to kill Jason the moment the realized their intruder was a OneManArmy instead of waiting around for him to steal it all and become even more invincible?

** Related to the above, why do they insist that ''Shadow Complex'' still ties into ''{{Empire}}'' and its sequel, when they're some sort of right-wing bizarro universe version of the ''Shadow Complex'' universe?