History VideoGame / Bioforge

A 1995 ActionAdventure game by Origin Systems.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992'', only with PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'', only with PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'', only with PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

* SpritePolygonMix: Flat backgrounds, 3D objects, like in ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark''.

[[caption-width-right:320:State-of-the-art CGI.]]

* AmnesiacHero: A pre-requisite for TheQuestForIdentity.

He wakes up in a cell. He doesn't know who he is. He doesn't remember where he is. He is within the depths of an abandoned sprawling base on a lonely moon; apparently, he is the victim of cruel experiments by an insane radical group, which have turned him into a {{cyborg}}, a grotesque killing machine.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''AloneInTheDark'', only with PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

* SpritePolygonMix: Flat backgrounds, 3D objects, like in ''AloneInTheDark''.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''AloneInTheDark'', only with PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" just as the genre was losing its popularity.

* ThatOneLevel: The reactor shutdown mission. You need to navigate a catwalk (with the VERY clumsy controls), lower a pylon BEFORE the alien catches up with you, attack the alien to lure it to the catwalk, shut down and re-activate the catwalk to kill the alien, run BACK and lower another pylon then shutdown the reactor with a code. All in ONE MINUTE. [[GuideDangIt If you save your game anytime inside the reactor room, the reactor will ALWAYS explode no matter what you do.]] *Also* [[GameBreakingBug the alien sometimes mysteriously reappears and shutdown the catwalk and kills you even if you succeed.]]

* AntiAir: The proagonist must shoot down a dropship at close quarters using a large turret gun in the complex's tower.

* AxCrazy: The victims of the cyborgization process kept becoming this until Mastaba found out how to stop this.

* HeelFaceTurn: The guard Caynan did this. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out well for him and he was made into a test subject as well.

* ImprobableWeaponUser / GrievousHarmWithABody: The fight right at the beginning of the game, where you beat up an AxCrazy psychopath with his own severed limb. All while shouting that you "have no wish to harm [him]".

* QuestForIdentity: One of the points of the game

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The programmers couldn't make fluid lifelike animations, so you're a half-machine rather than a human. The game couldn't handle too many characters on-screen at once, so the base you're in is almost completely abandoned due to a disaster.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to Dane, and presumably to all other victims of Dr. Mastaba.

* CatchAndReturn: At one point, a marine chucks a grenade into the room you're in. (A grenade with a ridiculously long fuse.) Return to sender.

" ElectronicSpeechImpediment: The nurse robot at the beginning of the game experiences this problem when it receives damage.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: complete with hangar bay, cryogenics lab, prison, defense tower, medical experimentation lab. Associated problems include earthquakes and MoleMiner tunnelling.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to Dane, and presumably to all other victims of dr. Mastaba.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: complete with hangar bay, cryogenics lab, prison, defense tower, medical experimentation lab. Associated problems include earthquakes and MoleMan tunnelling.

* AntiAir: The proagonist must shoot down a dropship using a large turret gun in the complex's tower.

* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler: There are two or three of these. Though you must engage in actual combat with the cyber-raptor, you can't beat it until you knock it onto the DilatingDoor on the floor and open door, dropping it into a cryo tank where it will fight with another unbeatable monster serving as BorderPatrol. Later on there is another acid-dwelling monster that you must blow up with a missile from a crashed dropship.]]

* {{Cyborg}: The protagonist. And, well, all of Dr. Mastaba's victims.

* AveMachina: The Mondite movement. A quite powerful terrorist organization who believes firmly in transhumanism, and won't stop at anything to "evolve" humanity.

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[[caption-width:320:State-of-the-art CGI.]]

* ApocalypticLog: Caynan's logbook shows his descend into insanity.
** According to Dr. Mastaba's notes, [[LampshadeHanging the cyborgization victims after a certain point obsessively write down everything happening to them until they entirely succumb to insanity.]]

* CatchAndReturn: At one point, a marine chucks a grenade into the room you're in. (A grenade with a ridiculously long fuse.) Return to sender...
* {{Cyborg}}

* HeelFaceTurn: The guard Caynan did this. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out well for him and he was made into a test subject as well...

* QuestForIdentity