History VideoGame / HostileWatersAntaeusRising

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The Cabal]].

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Downplayed yet justified in-universe. The utopian world government is forced to relearn the ways of war to stop a new threat to humanity's future. Central, however, still maintains a powerful StateSec, with quite a few competent people with military experience on hand to help speed up the process, to say nothing of the digitized ''Antaeus'' crew.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The aliens are bred to wipe out human life.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Justified in-universe. The utopian world government is forced to re-learn the ways of war to stop a new threat to humanity's future. Central, however, still has quite a few competent military personnel on hand to help speed up the process, to say nothing of the digitized ''Antaeus'' crew.

* NecessarilyEvil: Central maintains a powerful StateSec (complete with a contingent of its own spec ops units) and draconian policies that seem to clash with the otherwise utopian world order. Walker and Church, however, that such measures are necessary in order ensure their utopia's survival and that no one else would have to suffer.

* CloningBlues: The excuse given for why you can't simply create five copies of the same guy, thus limiting your autonomous forces to whatever chips you have on hand. It's said that they attempted running multiple copies before, which just made them go berserk since the participants couldn't accept that they were no longer unique.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The utopian world has all-reaching StateSec observing and even commanding all known dissenters through plants, all the mentioned place names are sterile and only infer geographic locations, not old nation states. It has been only 20 years since the last war to end all wars, yet the numbers of still-capable military personnel have been ensured by unknown means to be countable with two hands. On the plus side, there's no disease or poverty and people are functionally immortal.

* CloudCuckoolander: Kroker isn't the kind of person you'd call sane. He'll complain any time you take over his vehicle, talk about how he can kill you just by looking at you, and is generally a bit loopy. He's notably also the only member of your crew who acknowledges the fact that he's basically a chip in a robot (aside from Ransom) and actually seems to enjoy it.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The Antaeus' entire crew, PlayerCharacter included, sacrifice themselves in the ending sequence]].

* NonEntityGeneral: The game refers to you only as Captain, the only living person aboard the Antaeus. Of course, "living" is something of a misnomer, since you're a chip just like your crew, the only difference being you got a body out of the deal.

* DownerEnding: A pretty hard-hitting one. [[spoiler:In the final mission, after much effort, your ship, converted into a makeshift nuke, destroys a structure designed to launch the Species into space. In the credits, you and your crew go down with the ship. The ship's nanotech creation engine hits the ocean floor with the alien launch platform, which promptly beings to assimilate it. As if this weren't bad enough, TheStinger shows that two of the Species' Culture Stones managed to get into space anyway. Congrats, humanity's last weapon was sacrificed for little more than spare time (which the humans won't use because they think they've won), and if those monsters decide they want to come back home, the human race is screwed. However, there's a chance someone could get Cruiser 04 working again if they could manage to repair its receiver array (although one can argue that getting the device to Cruiser 04 might be a different matter altogether).]]

* KillItWithFire: In one of the latter missions, you're given the schematics for a vehicle-mounted flamethrower. Its short range is offset by the fact that it has the highest DPS of any weapon in the game. It's also vital to destroying Hives, as the things are nearly immune to other forms of damage.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Averted. While it is the weapon with the shortest range in the entire game, the flamethrower is very useful. It deals high continuous damage, and it is possible to set both enemy structure and units on fire, which will slowly damage them until destroyed. The flamethrower is particularly effective when coupled with a cloaking device and used for quick surprise attacks on enemy facilities. It's also the only weapon capable of killing hives in a reasonable timeframe.

The game can be bought from [[http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/hostile-waters-antaeus-rising/ Green Man Gaming]]. It is also available on [[http://www.gog.com/gamecard/hostile_waters_antaeus_rising GOG.com]], re-released after being pulled out of its catalog for quite a while. And it's now on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/267980/ Steam]].

-->-- '''Narrator (Tom Baker)'''

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Carrier Command''. ''Hostile Waters'' is also in essence an RTS-fied version of ''Rage Software's'' earlier game ''Incoming''.