History VideoGame / BodyHarvest

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Adam and Daisy travel back in time to the recorded alien invasions (1916, 1941, 1966, and 1991), so they can prevent the harvest of the Earth from ever coming true.

''Body Harvest'' is a 1998 [[UrExample proto]]-sandbox game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Creator/GremlinInteractive and Creator/MidwayGames for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. It is a [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] to the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series.[[note]]Its 3D entries, anyway; the first game in the ''GTA'' series was released a year before.[[/note]]

* ArtificialHuman: The Man in Black was specifically created by the aliens [[spoiler:from a drop of Adam's own blood. Although he claims to be Adam's "brother", there was clearly some form of tampering that makes him less than fully human, given how he can absorb the Hive Mind's power without issue.]]

* EvilTwin: The Man in the Black Suit. [[spoiler:Revealed to be ''literally'' your evil twin at the end of the game. The invading aliens sampled a droplet of Adam's blood that was shed during the game's intro sequence, and used it to create a perfect copy of him]].

* AliensAreBastards: They have wiped out almost the entire human race!

** In Java stage 4, if you keeping running towards the fence, you can glitch through it to get inside a harbor base without having to [[spoiler:Have the captain GoingDownWithTheShip to destroy the alien Barrier in a kamikaze attack]].

The plot goes as follows: An insectoid alien race has [[ToServeMan harvested]] humanity over a period of 100 years starting in 1916, using shields to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the harvested country. The story begins when the aliens try to wipe out the last humans survivors on the space station Omega in the year of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2016]]. The player character, Adam Drake, escapes but not before being wounded by one of the boarding aliens. He manages to get into the [[TimeMachine Alpha 1]] and is transported to 1916's Greece, where the game starts.

''Body Harvest'' is a 1998 [[UrExample proto]]-sandbox game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Creator/GremlinInteractive and Creator/MidwayGames for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. It is a [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] to the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series[[note]]its 3D entries, anyway; the first game in the ''GTA'' series was released a year before[[/note]].

* TheDragon: The Man in the Black Suit. Later revealed to be [[spoiler: your Evil Twin]]. He becomes a DragonAscendant after [[spoiler:you kill the Hive Mind]].

* MoreDakka: Particularly noticeable during major boss battles in Alpha 1 and [[spoiler: the final stage]].

* NothingIsScarier: When you're just simply [[https://youtu.be/1fOntXzcDUA?list=PLC6BC35FD59A7BD1B wandering around the map]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7oQYQXeWA inside a building]], the background music is a dark, sad, creepy ambience of pianos and violins. However, when you're battling the bugs the music takes on a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugSRwz66pXY more upbeat and militaristic tone]]. Ironically, the game feels creepier when you're ''not'' battling the bugs.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: The Man In Black uses the Hive Mind's inherited power to transform into Tomegatherion at the end of the game]].

** There's a lovely part in one of the America stages where you're in a military base the aliens are trying to terraform. A fast-closing gate blocks your progress at one point, the intended solution being to [[spoiler: get a can of nitro fuel and drive a jeep through the gate, the fuel speeding up the jeep just fast enough to make it]], but if you can't quite pull that off, take a nimble car onto the high ledges and you'll be able to jump a gap at the edge of the level. You are then able to drive in a flat area the designers clearly intended to be inaccessible. Result: Skip almost the entire level and drive straight to the boss.

** In Java stage 4, if you keeping running towards the fence, you can glitch through it to get inside a harbor base without having to [[spoiler: Have the captain GoingDownWithTheShip to destroy the alien Barrier in a kamikaze attack]].

* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: The Alien Comet]].

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler: After Adam kicks the BrainInAJar, destroying it, your twin brother appears and transforms into the TrueFinalBoss]].

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler:With their invasion thwarted on four seperate occasions, the aliens decide to go for the KillEmAll solution by trying to crash their artificial comet into Earth. Adam thwarts them once again by disabling the engines before they can do so.]]

''Body Harvest'' is a [[URExample proto]]-sandbox game by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) released for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 in 1998. It is a [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] to the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series[[note]]its 3D entries, anyway; the first game in the ''GTA'' series was released a year before[[/note]].