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* Aiden himself. He's a man who can turn ''the entire city'' into a weapon aimed directly at you with just the touch of a button. Imagine what's going through the heads of the mooks as fuseboxes explode in their face, their com-systems either refuse to work or let out a sudden, ear-splitting burst of static leaving them reeling in agony, and grenades activate on their belts, leaving them scrambling to get free: [[MookHorrorShow they must think they're up against some kind of murderous poltergeist]].
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* Aiden himself. himself.
** He's a man who can turn ''the entire city'' into a weapon aimed directly at you with just the touch of a button. Imagine what's going through the heads of the mooks as fuseboxes explode in their face, their com-systems either refuse to work or let out a sudden, ear-splitting burst of static leaving them reeling in agony, and grenades activate on their belts, leaving them scrambling to get free: [[MookHorrorShow they must think they're up against some kind of murderous poltergeist]].
** He's a man who can turn ''the entire city'' into a weapon aimed directly at you with just the touch of a button. Imagine what's going through the heads of the mooks as fuseboxes explode in their face, their com-systems either refuse to work or let out a sudden, ear-splitting burst of static leaving them reeling in agony, and grenades activate on their belts, leaving them scrambling to get free: [[MookHorrorShow they must think they're up against some kind of murderous poltergeist]].
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* The "Alone" digital trip is surprisingly unnerving for being a simple modification to the game's rules. Eerie robots with flashlights for heads searching you in a bleak, deserted Chicago--somehow, it works.
** It's a particularly jarring experience since the game focuses on the player character's connections to the millions of people around him , and these people are entirely absent, their existence only hinted about by dozens of damaged cars laying around and confiscated weapons left around the city.
* The Auction, where girls from around the world are sold off into slavery. They're drugged up to the point they can't remember their own name and their profiles are just names and numbers when you scan them in the Profiler. Aiden is clearly ''horrified'' by what he sees there, and vows to hunt down everyone who evaded the police raid Aidan sent on them.
** It's a particularly jarring experience since the game focuses on the player character's connections to the millions of people around him , and these people are entirely absent, their existence only hinted about by dozens of damaged cars laying around and confiscated weapons left around the city.
* The Auction, where girls from around the world are sold off into slavery. They're drugged up to the point they can't remember their own name and their profiles are just names and numbers when you scan them in the Profiler. Aiden is clearly ''horrified'' by what he sees there, and vows to hunt down everyone who evaded the police raid Aidan sent on them.
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* The "Alone" digital trip is surprisingly unnerving for being a simple modification to the game's rules. Eerie robots with flashlights for heads searching you in a bleak, deserted Chicago--somehow, it works.
**works. It's a particularly jarring experience since the game focuses on the player character's connections to the millions of people around him , and these people are entirely absent, their existence only hinted about by dozens of damaged cars laying around and confiscated weapons left around the city.
* The Auction, where girls from around the world are sold off intoslavery. slavery.
** They're drugged up to the point they can't remember their own name and their profiles are just names and numbers when you scan them in the Profiler. Aiden is clearly ''horrified'' by what he sees there, and vows to hunt down everyone who evaded the police raid Aidan sent on them.
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* The Auction, where girls from around the world are sold off into
** They're drugged up to the point they can't remember their own name and their profiles are just names and numbers when you scan them in the Profiler. Aiden is clearly ''horrified'' by what he sees there, and vows to hunt down everyone who evaded the police raid Aidan sent on them.
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--->You should treat your toys with more care.
--->But then I wouldn't have any reason to get new ones.
--->But then I wouldn't have any reason to get new ones.
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--->But
"''But then I wouldn't have any reason to get new ones.''"
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* From the ending; Evidently, even pacemakers are connected to ctOS and can be ''remotely shut down''.
** Worse yet, they probably turn off during blackouts like everything else does. While nobody ever dies of Alden's blackouts (No programming for Karma loss), imagine living with a relative who gets a heart attack everytime when the electricity goes off. And without electricity, helping them is difficult.
** Worse yet, they probably turn off during blackouts like everything else does. While nobody ever dies of Alden's blackouts (No programming for Karma loss), imagine living with a relative who gets a heart attack everytime when the electricity goes off. And without electricity, helping them is difficult.
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* From the ending; Evidently, even pacemakers are connected to ctOS and can be ''remotely shut down''.
**down''. Worse yet, they probably turn off during blackouts like everything else does. While nobody ever dies of Alden's blackouts (No programming for Karma loss), imagine living with a relative who gets a heart attack everytime when the electricity goes off. And without electricity, helping them is difficult.
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* The entire game can be this. While it's obvious focus is on digital technology, infrastructure vulnerability, abuse of data, and privacy rights there's a whole other set of issues people tend to not discuss that are implied in the game. The biggest being that ctOS is effectively privatization of an entire city: all public utilities and services are either managed through ctOS or directly controlled by it. Blume, presumably being a government contractor, then goes on to use its funding to directly influence politics to ensure its future control and has plans of expanding to every major city in the world. Oh and they're not afraid of getting their hands dirty to have their way. They'll hire hitmen to silence dissenters and they're not above making business arrangements with organized crime either if it furthers their agenda. The game ends with one of their executives incidentally becoming interim mayor of Chicago. Just imagine a world where your tax dollars fund people's (dubiously) legal business and political ambitions on a global scale. The entire thing brings about another set of relevant and timely topics like privatization, government contractor scandals, and corporate/monetary interests in government/politics. Arguably [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]] depending on your personal inclinations, but even if not the idea is still creepy... *shudder*
** Made worse by the tie-ins to the Assassin's Creed franchise, where it's explicitly stated at one point that that series' villainous conspiracy is actively interested in ctOS. The terrifying part, in-universe is that ''Blume is better at their power-gaming than Abstergo''. This says a lot, given how much power Abstergo already has.
* In ''Bad Blood'', Aiden has three Audio Logs you can find. The first two are pretty standard fare for him wondering if Jackson and Nicki will ever forgive him, but the third is simply him reciting a recipe for banana bread in a CreepyMonotone. It makes you wonder if everything he's gone through eventually ended up [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]].
** Really, all three. He fully admits that he's probably never going to see or hear from his family again due to the risks involved in simply contacting them, and that one day, he's probably going to wind up killed by a fixer better than he is. The recipe really makes him sound dead inside, especially his emotionless recitation of the line, "Remember the most important step: Enjoy."
* In ''Bad Blood'', T-Bone winds up finding out Defalt's reason for hating him- His brother was one of the people who died in the 2003 blackout, and this is displayed with a model (Along with every other death) in a RoomFullOfCrazy stretching out across an entire lair.
** Made worse by the tie-ins to the Assassin's Creed franchise, where it's explicitly stated at one point that that series' villainous conspiracy is actively interested in ctOS. The terrifying part, in-universe is that ''Blume is better at their power-gaming than Abstergo''. This says a lot, given how much power Abstergo already has.
* In ''Bad Blood'', Aiden has three Audio Logs you can find. The first two are pretty standard fare for him wondering if Jackson and Nicki will ever forgive him, but the third is simply him reciting a recipe for banana bread in a CreepyMonotone. It makes you wonder if everything he's gone through eventually ended up [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]].
** Really, all three. He fully admits that he's probably never going to see or hear from his family again due to the risks involved in simply contacting them, and that one day, he's probably going to wind up killed by a fixer better than he is. The recipe really makes him sound dead inside, especially his emotionless recitation of the line, "Remember the most important step: Enjoy."
* In ''Bad Blood'', T-Bone winds up finding out Defalt's reason for hating him- His brother was one of the people who died in the 2003 blackout, and this is displayed with a model (Along with every other death) in a RoomFullOfCrazy stretching out across an entire lair.
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* The entire game can be this. this.
** While it's obvious focus is on digital technology, infrastructure vulnerability, abuse of data, and privacy rights there's a whole other set of issues people tend to not discuss that are implied in the game. The biggest being that ctOS is effectively privatization of an entire city: all public utilities and services are either managed through ctOS or directly controlled by it. Blume, presumably being a government contractor, then goes on to use its funding to directly influence politics to ensure its future control and has plans of expanding to every major city in the world. Oh and they're not afraid of getting their hands dirty to have their way. They'll hire hitmen to silence dissenters and they're not above making business arrangements with organized crime either if it furthers their agenda. The game ends with one of their executives incidentally becoming interim mayor ofChicago. Chicago.
** Just imagine a world where your tax dollars fund people's (dubiously) legal business and political ambitions on a global scale. The entire thing brings about another set of relevant and timely topics like privatization, government contractor scandals, and corporate/monetary interests in government/politics. Arguably [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]] depending on your personal inclinations, but even if not the idea is stillcreepy... *shudder*
creepy...
** Made worse by the tie-ins to theAssassin's Creed ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise, where it's explicitly stated at one point that that series' villainous conspiracy is actively interested in ctOS. The terrifying part, in-universe is that ''Blume is better at their power-gaming than Abstergo''. This says a lot, given how much power Abstergo already has.
* In ''Bad Blood'', Aiden has three Audio Logs you canfind. find.
** The first two are pretty standard fare for him wondering if Jackson and Nicki will ever forgive him, but the third is simply him reciting a recipe for banana bread in a CreepyMonotone. It makes you wonder if everything he's gone through eventually ended up [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]].
**Really, all three. He fully admits that he's probably never going to see or hear from his family again due to the risks involved in simply contacting them, and that one day, he's probably going to wind up killed by a fixer better than he is. The recipe really makes him sound dead inside, especially his emotionless recitation of the line, "Remember the most important step: Enjoy."
* In ''BadBlood'', Blood''.
** T-Bone winds up finding out Defalt's reason for hating him- His brother was one of the people who died in the 2003 blackout, and this is displayed with a model (Along with every other death) in a RoomFullOfCrazy stretching out across an entire lair.
** While it's obvious focus is on digital technology, infrastructure vulnerability, abuse of data, and privacy rights there's a whole other set of issues people tend to not discuss that are implied in the game. The biggest being that ctOS is effectively privatization of an entire city: all public utilities and services are either managed through ctOS or directly controlled by it. Blume, presumably being a government contractor, then goes on to use its funding to directly influence politics to ensure its future control and has plans of expanding to every major city in the world. Oh and they're not afraid of getting their hands dirty to have their way. They'll hire hitmen to silence dissenters and they're not above making business arrangements with organized crime either if it furthers their agenda. The game ends with one of their executives incidentally becoming interim mayor of
** Just imagine a world where your tax dollars fund people's (dubiously) legal business and political ambitions on a global scale. The entire thing brings about another set of relevant and timely topics like privatization, government contractor scandals, and corporate/monetary interests in government/politics. Arguably [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]] depending on your personal inclinations, but even if not the idea is still
** Made worse by the tie-ins to the
* In ''Bad Blood'', Aiden has three Audio Logs you can
** The first two are pretty standard fare for him wondering if Jackson and Nicki will ever forgive him, but the third is simply him reciting a recipe for banana bread in a CreepyMonotone. It makes you wonder if everything he's gone through eventually ended up [[DrivenToMadness driving him insane]].
**
* In ''Bad
** T-Bone winds up finding out Defalt's reason for hating him- His brother was one of the people who died in the 2003 blackout, and this is displayed with a model (Along with every other death) in a RoomFullOfCrazy stretching out across an entire lair.
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* Picture the final level from the standpoint of the ''citizens'' of Chicago. You're going about your business on a seemingly ordinary day, when suddenly you hear warnings that ctOS has been compromised. Traffic lights all turn green, bollards pop up and cars slam into them, streets ''explode'' from steam pipes bursting, and finally the entire city is blacked out. For all the people of Chicago knew, they were being hit with a cyberterrorist attack (and in a way, they were).
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* Picture the final level from the standpoint of the ''citizens'' of Chicago. Chicago.
** You're going about your business on a seemingly ordinary day, when suddenly you hear warnings that ctOS has been compromised. Traffic lights all turn green, bollards pop up and cars slam into them, streets ''explode'' from steam pipes bursting, and finally the entire city is blacked out. For all the people of Chicago knew, they were being hit with a cyberterrorist attack (and in a way, they were).
** You're going about your business on a seemingly ordinary day, when suddenly you hear warnings that ctOS has been compromised. Traffic lights all turn green, bollards pop up and cars slam into them, streets ''explode'' from steam pipes bursting, and finally the entire city is blacked out. For all the people of Chicago knew, they were being hit with a cyberterrorist attack (and in a way, they were).
