History VideoGame / NecroVisioN

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Near the end of ''Lost Company'', [[spoiler:Zimmerman executes his old friend Field Marshall Menge when he learns that Menge was behind the undead plague, attempting to create an army of the undead he could control for his vampire masters. One level later, Zimmerman is recruited by the vampires and plotting to raise an army of the undead of his own (merging with the Shadowhand probably helped this spontaneous 180 degree policy shift).]]

Although the game uses a standard ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[=/=]''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' style control scheme (with iron sights aiming, melee attacks, and grenades), the gameplay is more comparable to faster-paced arcade shooters such as ''Doom'', ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'', and ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' whereas you face swarms of enemies. Combat is a combination of shooting and different styles of melee. The game has a bullet-time mechanic, and also rewards creative kills (headshots, melee combos, etc.) with a brief period of extra damage called Fury. Chaining together multiple combos also restores your health and bullet-time.

** "I never wanted this. I just wanted to fight my war, not get dragged into yours. But you took that all away from me."

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* ActionGame

* FirstPersonShooter

** [[{{IncredibleHulk}} "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!"]]

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI
* XMeetsY: The game is essentially what happens if you take a ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' player character, and drop them into ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}''.

Although the game uses a standard ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[=/=]''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' style control scheme (with iron sights aiming, melee attacks, and grenades), the gameplay is more comparable to faster-paced arcade shooters such as Doom, VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}, and VideoGame/SeriousSam whereas you face swarms of enemies. Combat is a combination of shooting and different styles of melee. The game has a bullet-time mechanic, and also rewards creative kills (headshots, melee combos, etc.) with a brief period of extra damage called Fury. Chaining together multiple combos also restores your health and bullet-time.

** One of the challenge maps is actually named VideoGame/SeriousSam. Also, one of Simon's taunts in the final battle is "Here, take a little VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}!".

* XMeetsY: The game is essentially what happens if you take a ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' player character, and drop them into ''{{Painkiller}}''.

* {{Badass}}: Simon Bukner, the player character.

** A protagonist named [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon]]?

* ShownTheirWork: In an out-of-the-way easter egg, you find a poetic British soldier in a prison cell; this soldier is implied to be [[spoiler:Creator/JRRTolkien]]. [[spoiler:Creator/JRRTolkien]] was actually a soldier in WorldWarOne.

* WorldWarOne

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Near the end of ''Lost Company'', [[spoiler: Zimmerman executes his old friend Field Marshall Menge when he learns that Menge was behind the undead plague, attempting to create an army of the undead he could control for his vampire masters. One level later, Zimmerman is recruited by the vampires and plotting to raise an army of the undead of his own (merging with the Shadowhand probably helped this spontaneous 180 degree policy shift).]]

* BittersweetEnding: The Medium difficulty ending [[spoiler: Simon becomes a general in Mephisto's Army in exchange for humanity having 100 years to prepare for the next time Mephisto invades the human realm.]]

** Alternatively there is a taunt command that you can use, sometimes turning it into a PreMortemOneLiner.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Azazel]]

* EnemyMine: Mostly averted in the first game - German soldiers will continue shooting at the player [[TooDumbToLive even if there are zombies nearby,]] who'll instead usually attack whatever is nearby. [[spoiler:Near the end, however, the vampire wizard allies himself with Simon, helping him get closer to [[BigBad Mephisto]] as well as teleporting in a squad of vampires to help against [[TheWarSequence the massive wave of demons that attacks.]]]]

* GottaCatchThemAll: The Vampire Artifacts, secret places, and [[{{ApocalypticLog}} letters]]

Although the game uses a standard ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[=/=]''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' style control scheme (with iron sights aiming, melee attacks, and grenades), the gameplay is more comparable to faster-paced arcade shooters such as Doom, {{Painkiller}}, and SeriousSam whereas you face swarms of enemies. Combat is a combination of shooting and different styles of melee. The game has a bullet-time mechanic, and also rewards creative kills (headshots, melee combos, etc.) with a brief period of extra damage called Fury. Chaining together multiple combos also restores your health and bullet-time.

** One of the challenge maps is actually named SeriousSam. Also, one of Simon's taunts in the final battle is "Here, take a little {{Painkiller}}!".

** Played straight in ''Lost Company'' when Zimmerman teams up with ''[[HistoricalDomainCharacter George S. Patton,]]'' beginning with the two holding out against waves of undead in a cabin, not unlike NaziZombies.

Although the game uses a standard ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[=/=]''ModernWarfare'' style control scheme (with iron sights aiming, melee attacks, and grenades), the gameplay is more comparable to faster-paced arcade shooters such as Doom, {{Painkiller}}, and SeriousSam whereas you face swarms of enemies. Combat is a combination of shooting and different styles of melee. The game has a bullet-time mechanic, and also rewards creative kills (headshots, melee combos, etc.) with a brief period of extra damage called Fury. Chaining together multiple combos also restores your health and bullet-time.

** The more traditional FPS version appears in the form of a slow-walking, 7-foot tall German soldier wearing a heavy metal cuirass and equipped with a light machine gun. Apparently they had [[ModernWarfare Juggernauts]] back in World War 1 too.

Although the game uses a standard {{Halo}}[=/=]ModernWarfare style control scheme (with iron sights aiming, melee attacks, and grenades), the gameplay is more comparable to faster-paced arcade shooters such as Doom, {{Painkiller}}, and SeriousSam whereas you face swarms of enemies. Combat is a combination of shooting and different styles of melee. The game has a bullet-time mechanic, and also rewards creative kills (headshots, melee combos, etc.) with a brief period of extra damage called Fury. Chaining together multiple combos also restores your health and bullet-time.

* XMeetsY: The game is essentially what happens if you take a ''CallOfDuty'' player character, and drop them into ''{{Painkiller}}''.

** [[Franchise/{{Robocop}} "Dead or alive, you're coming with me"]]

** [[ArmyOfDarkness "I dunno who's good or bad, but I'm the guy with the gun!"]]

** also, some [[{{NightmareFuel}} zombies]] [[{{Narm}} do this]] as well.

* DownerEnding: The Hard difficulty ending: [[spoiler: Simon kills Mephisto and takes his place as ruler of Hell.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Azazel]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Happens mostly offscreen, but as it turns out [[spoiler:Not all of the German soldiers agree with [[MadScientist Zimmerman's]] plans...]]
* EnemyMine: Mostly averted in the first game - German soldiers will continue shooting at the player [[TooDumbToLive even if there are zombies nearby,]] who'll instead usually attack whatever is nearby. [[spoiler: Near the end, however, the vampire wizard allies himself with Simon, helping him get closer to [[BigBad Mephisto]] as well as teleporting in a squad of vampires to help against [[TheWarSequence the massive wave of demons that attacks.]]]]

* GoldenEnding: As you might have guessed from the pattern above, the Easy difficulty ending. [[spoiler: After the final battle, Simon wakes up at the end of the war, with no memory of what happened during it. Although he's haunted by questions of what really happened and suspicions that he really is better off not knowing, for him, at least, it's all finally over.]]

* GunsAkimbo: an option for pistols and the [[{{MoreDakka}} heavy machine guns]]

* MoodWhiplash: At scripted points Simon will reflect out loud on how WarIsHell... and then you might easily hear him spout a BondOneLiner (see above) seconds later when killing an enemy. It gives an odd impression of his state of mind, to say the least.

* MultipleEndings: The game has a different ending for each difficulty level. [[spoiler:Inversely to what you may expect, the endings actually get bleaker on the ''higher'' difficulty levels, rather then the lower.]]
* Narm: Some of the dialog has plenty of this.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Finding all secrets, reading all letters, and picking up all vampire artifacts (fortunately you can replay levels to find stuff you might have missed). Plus completing all of the challenge maps to unlock special abilities in the single player campaign.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While being called "Vampires", they show no vampiric traits; no blood drinking, no weakness to sunlight [[spoiler: although it's debateable considering they live several miles underground when you face them]], no supernatural abilities [[spoiler: aside from [[{{IKnowKarate}} Martial Arts]]]].

* ShownTheirWork: In an out-of-the-way easter egg, you find a poetic British soldier in a prison cell, this soldier is implied to be [[spoiler: Creator/JRRTolkien]]. [[spoiler: Creator/JRRTolkien]] was actually a soldier in WorldWarOne.

* TranquilFury: Simon has one [[spoiler: with his final confrontation with Mephisto]]

** A protagonist named [[{{Castlevania}} Simon]]?

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While being called "Vampires", they show no vampiric traits; no blood drinking, no weekness to sunlight [[spoiler: although it's debateable considering they live several miles underground when you face them]], no supernatural abilities [[spoiler: aside from [[{{IKnowKarate}} Martial Arts]]]].

* SanitySlippage: Simon starts to show this very quickly. Tn the ''first level after [[DownerBeginning the opening sequence.]]'' Simon questions his sanity when zombies start appearing, and as situations worsen, so does his mental state, until by the time he acquires Shadowhand it seems he's too jaded to care anymore.

** [[{{Robocop}} "Dead or alive, you're coming with me"]]

** [[Franchise/EvilDead "I dunno who's good or bad, but I'm the guy with the gun!"]]