History VideoGame / AdventRising

''Advent Rising'' is a third-person action-adventure game for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} that was released in May of 2005 (with a [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] version being released a few months later). You play as Gideon Wyeth (Creator/WillFriedle), seeking to defend humanity from an alien race known as "The Seekers". To help you in this quest are the friendly Aurelians, your brother Ethan, your fiancée Olivia (Creator/VanessaMarshall), and the fact that humans are apparently demigods with a vast number of powers.

Presently, the game is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom for PC, as well as on Xbox through their backwards-compatibility program. The game also received a five-issue spin-off comic book series, which is available digitally as DLC on Steam. The PC version is also available on - for whatever reason - the DVD release of the Creator/UweBoll film ''Seed''.[[note]]This may have been part of a deal of some sort with Majesco, as the DVD release of ''Film/{{BloodRayne}}'' has ''VideoGame/BloodRayne2'' as a bonus.[[/note]]

* ObviousBeta: The Xbox version has a '''lot''' of bugs.

Presently, the game is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom for PC, as well as on Xbox through their backwards-compatibility program. The game also received a five-issue spin-off comic book series, which is available digitally as DLC on Steam. The PC version is also available on - for whatever reason - the DVD release of the Creator/UweBoll film ''Seed''.

''Advent Rising'' is a third-person action-adventure game for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} that was released in May of 2005 (with a [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] version being released a few months later). You play as Gideon Wyeth (Creator/WillFriedle), seeking to defend humanity from an alien race known as "The Seekers". To help you in this quest are the friendly Aurelians, your brother Ethan, your fiancée Olivia (Creator/VanessaMarshall), and the fact that humans are apparently demigods with a vast number of powers.

* SuperpowerLottery: Gideon Wyeth, has, once he unlocks all his powers, SuperStrength, a HealingFactor, BulletTime when using his improbable dodging skills, [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], [[BarrierWarrior various]] [[AttackReflector forcefields]] (which are [[NighInvulnerability impenetrable]] and harm any enemy that touches them), [[ShockAndAwe electromagnetic bolts]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction massive, devastating radial energy explosions]], [[FlashStep gravimetric teleportation]], [[TimeMaster intertial damping]], [[BeamSpam dozens of exploding ice-missiles]], and [[AnIcePerson cryokinesis]]. He's also skilled at piloting, marksmenship, and hand-to-hand combat. And, for his last trick, he can create a [[UnrealisticBlackHole controlled singularity]] that can kill a PhysicalGod.

* TheCallTwinksYou

The Xbox game was not entirely well received, due in part to the number of bugs and difficulty of controls, but the PC version fared better.

* NeverMyFault: The Cockney-accented marine and his pals in the beginning of the game, who instigate a bar fight and later try to shoot Gideon's brother. Thankfully in the second instance (which ends with the Cockney guy being killed by Gideon himself after he starts shooting at Ethan on the firing range) the [=MP=]s who respond are ReasonableAuthorityFigures who reviewed the security tapes before they arrived and saw that it was a clear case of self defense.