History VideoGame / NeverDead

Panned at release by most review outlets in January 2012, most agreeing that it was an amusing story but a mediocre game, Neverdead is available on UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} and UsefulNotes/XBox360, and provides hours of goofy dark humour, giddy ultra-violence and snarky dialogue.

* ShoutOut: Alex has clear overtones of two Franchise/MetalGear characters, namely Vamp for his appearance, combat methods and flamenco body language and the Cyborg Ninja with the way his glowing red eye follows his FlashStep.

* DieChairDie: An impressive amount of the environment can be totally torn to shreds by combat, and the destruction of nearby scenery does big damage to any enemy type. In fact it's possible to customize Bryce to maximise the ease and effectiveness of killing foes by bringing down the ceiling on them.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: One of the game's favourite running gags is just how abusive Arcadia is to Bryce, continually mutilating him to keep him in line. Then again, Bryce can take any punishment she gives out, and seeing as he's so ridiculously old and jaded by immortality it seems hard to keep his attention otherwise.

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: Alex.]]

* GallowsHumor: It's likely that Bryce's goofy attitude and bad jokes are the only things keeping him from going completely insane.

%%* {{Revenge}}

%%* SmugSnake: Sangria.

''Never Dead'' is a linear ThirdPersonShooter developed by Rebellion and published by Konami. It follows Bryce as he slaughters his way through hordes of demonic minions on the path to the Demon King Astaroth, as well as revealing the cause of his immortal predicament through flashbacks. Bryce is truly immortal, without need to breathe, eat or wash (although the latter is largely a personal choice), and when gorily dismembered he merely needs to reacquire his limbs by hopping, crawling or rolling over to reattach them. Given a few moments he can even regrow his entire body from his head alone, but this does not make him indestructible. His enemies can digest his head into immortal, inert ooze given the opportunity, trapping him in a conscious, agonized state for all eternity without respite.

Never Dead is a linear Third Person Shooter developed by Rebellion and published by Konami. It follows Bryce as he slaughters his way through hordes of demonic minions on the path to the Demon King Astaroth, as well as revealing the cause of his immortal predicament through flashbacks. Bryce is truly immortal, without need to breathe, eat or wash (although the latter is largely a personal choice), and when gorily dismembered he merely needs to reacquire his limbs by hopping, crawling or rolling over to reattach them. Given a few moments he can even regrow his entire body from his head alone, but this does not make him indestructible. His enemies can digest his head into immortal, inert ooze given the opportunity, trapping him in a conscious, agonized state for all eternity without respite.

* {{Revenge}}

* SmugSnake: Sangria.

* TheLoad: Nikki is defenceless, whiny and self-entitled as all get out. [[spoiler: She's also the last Medium, and her enchantments allow Bryce to carve up Arch Demons like turducken.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Astaroth implies that the God of Demons, the birth of whom informs his entire motivation for invading Earth, is the baddest mamma-jamma in the Never Dead universe. His defeat prevents Bryce from fighting or even seeing it in it's true form, which is probably for the best.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Arcadia rocks the A Type with gusto.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Averted with Bryce; when he was cursed with immortality, he was young and handsome and basically looked like a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' character. Even after being cursed with immortality, he apparently continued to age into middle age before his aging stopped, ending up looking like [[Franchise/DeadRising Frank West]] in the modern day (though hundreds of years of depression and alcoholism may also have had something to do with his modern appearance).

Panned at release by most review outlets in January 2012, most agreeing that it was an amusing story but a mediocre game, Neverdead is available on PS3 and XBox360, and provides hours of goofy dark humour, giddy ultra-violence and snarky dialogue.

Bryce Boltzmann is an ugly, bad natured bum with personal habits that would make a rat vomit. He’s inept at his job, his partner is more like a parole officer and he uses self harm to escape his problems.

He’s also a demon slayer with a murder-boner for the Devil King himself, a master gunfighter and swordsman, and mankind’s only hope against the coming apocalypse.

Panned at release by most review outlets in January '12, most agreeing that it was an amusing story but a mediocre game, Neverdead is available on PS3 and XBox360, and provides hours of goofy dark humour, giddy ultra-violence and snarky dialogue.

* AntiHero: Even if he will bust his ass to protect the innocent (Usually right up the middle), Bryce is still a prick. He treats everyone disrespectfully, destroys millions of dollars in public property mostly for fun and has no consideration for either the possessions of his friends or the minds of the innocent civilians who might be a bit distraught at watching a smelly hobo rip off his own head to shoot hoops.

Never Dead is a linear Third Person Shooter developed by Rebellion and published by Konami. It follows Bryce as he slaughters his way through hordes of demonic minions on the path to the Demon King Astaroth, as well as revealing the cause of his immortal predicament through flashbacks. Bryce is truly immortal, without need to breath, eat or wash (Although the latter is largely a personal choice), and when gorily dismembered he merely needs to reaquire his limbs by hopping, crawling or rolling over to reattach them. Given a few moments he can even regrow his entire body from his head alone, but this does not make him indestructible. His enemies can digest his head into immortal, inert ooze given the opportunity, trapping him in a conscious, agonized state for all eternity without respite.

* WholePlotReference: Never Dead can seem uncannily reminiscent of Clover Studios's cult classic GodHand at times. An abrasive yet skilled lout with a supernatural body part forced upon him is dragged by the nose by his abusive female colleague to defeat an army of demons. [[spoiler: Ultimately the lout has to fight up to the top of a demonic ziggurat to prevent the sacrifice of a young woman to summon a devil God onto the Earth. At the last hurdle he is delayed by an evil counterpart who bears an identical but opposite supernatural body part, who when defeated is betrayed by his demon masters and gives up the appendage to the hero so that he can defeat his ultimate adversary.]]