History VideoGame / PulpAdventures

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover From left to right]]. Foreground: ComicBook/TheRocketeer. Middleground: Literature/TheSpider, Franchise/IndianaJones, ComicBook/TheSpirit, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, Literature/DocSavage, Radio/TheShadow, [[Radio/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet, Kato]], and Literature/TheAvenger. Background: Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, Franchise/TheLoneRanger, and Franchise/{{Zorro}}. And that's not an exhaustive list of all the player characters available ingame!]]

** Franchise/{{Zorro}},

* WhipItGood: Beside Indiana Jones and Zorro, one kind of Opar enemy (apemen) wields a whip.

* DifficultySpike: The campaign has an abrupt increase in difficulty when you start the 1930's Opar level (level 15 out of 17). At this point, most of the enemies you'll encounter are DemonicSpiders.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs[=/=]StockDinosaurs: Despite dinosaurs appearing in a single mission ([[spoiler:Hyperborea's underground tunnels]]), fighting them is explicitely mentioned as a feature of the mod. The regular dinosaur enemies are several variants of classic "[[RaptorAttack raptors]]", neutral triceratops can be encountered too (they're hostile to raptors), and [[spoiler: the level ends with a fight against a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover From left to right]]. Foreground: ComicBook/TheRocketeer. Middleground: Literature/TheSpider, Franchise/IndianaJones, ComicBook/TheSpirit, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, [[Franchise/DocSavage Doc Savage]], Radio/TheShadow, [[Radio/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet, Kato]], and Literature/TheAvenger. Background: Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, Franchise/TheLoneRanger, and Franchise/{{Zorro}}. And that's not an exhaustive list of all the player characters available ingame!]]

** [[Franchise/DocSavage Doc Savage, Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Renny Rennwick, Long Tom Roberts, Johnny Littlejohn, and Pat Savage]],

** Radio/TheShadow,

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover From left to right]]. Foreground: ComicBook/TheRocketeer. Middleground: Literature/TheSpider, Franchise/IndianaJones, ComicBook/TheSpirit, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, [[Franchise/DocSavage Doc Savage]], Radio/TheShadow, [[Radio/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet, Kato]], and Literature/TheAvenger. Background: Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, Franchise/TheLoneRanger, and Franchise/{{Zorro}}. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And that's not an exhaustive list of all the player characters available ingame!]]]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Cf. the complete list of party members in the introduction.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs[=/=]StockDinosaurs: Despite dinosaurs appearing in a single mission ([[spoiler:Hyperborea's underground tunnels]]), fighting them is explicitely mentioned as a feature of the mod. The regular dinosaur enemies are several variants of classic "[[RaptorAttack raptors]]", neutral triceratops can be encountered too (they're hostile to raptors), and [[spoiler: the level ends with a fight against a TyrannosaurusRex.]]

** Lterature/JohnCarterOfMars.

* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Sort of. Just before entering [[spoiler: Hyberborea's tunnels]], Doc Savage mentions that the place is so old that, according to plate tectonics theory, there a high probability it collapsed. The theory already existed in the Thirties but wasn't universally accepted by scientists before the Sixties.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs[=/=]StockDinosaurs: Despite dinosaurs appearing in a single mission ([[spoiler: Hyperborea's undergound tunnels]]), fighting them is explicitely mentioned as a feature of the mod. The regular dinosaur enemies are several variants of classic "[[RaptorAttack raptors]]", neutral triceratops can be encountered too (they're hostile to raptors), and [[spoiler: the level ends with a fight against a TyrannosaurusRex.]]

** In one room of the penultimate level, [[spoiler: John Sunlight]]'s mooks again and some of the local hostile carnivorous fauna ([[spoiler: the velociraptors]]) are fighting.

-->''This mod is a love letter to the classic pulp heroes of yesteryear. It tells an original tale of danger and daring do, teaming many classic pulp heroes and several modern characters cut from the same cloth. It features a huge cast of characters, including most of the pulp heroes of enduring fame. You can play as all of your favorite characters from the old magazines, radio shows, or serials, the characters that sparked America's heroic imagination. The story features several classic pulp villains and a twisting, turning plot that ties in to the settings and adventures of many of the starring characters. So, what are you waiting for? Come, ride with Britt Reid, laugh with the Shadow, swing the trees with Tarzan, and buckle your share of swashes with Zorro!''
-->''--[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/pulp-adventures Official description of the mod]]''

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover From left to right]]. Foreground: ComicBook/TheRocketeer. Middleground: Literature/TheSpider, Franchise/IndianaJones, ComicBook/TheSpirit, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, [[Franchise/DocSavage Doc Savage]], Radio/TheShadow, [[Franchise/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet, Kato]], and Literature/TheAvenger. Background: Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, Franchise/TheLoneRanger, and Franchise/{{Zorro}}. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And that's not an exhaustive list of all the player characters available ingame!]]]]

** [[Franchise/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet and Kato]],

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Zorro buried the cursed mask near the town visited later by the Lone Ranger.

* GoodGunsBadGuns: Most of the protagonists with firearms wield either US WW1[=/=]WW2 era guns or sixshooters, the most notable exception being the Rocketeer and his Mauser C96 (a German pistol with a "good gun" reputation). Villains include Nazis with German guns and gangsters with drum-magazine Thompson [=SMGs=].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover From left to right]]. Foreground: ComicBook/TheRocketeer. Middleground: Literature/TheSpider, Franchise/IndianaJones, ComicBook/TheSpirit, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, Franchise/DocSavage, Radio/TheShadow, [[Franchise/TheGreenHornet The Green Hornet, Kato]], and Literature/TheAvenger. Background: Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, Franchise/TheLoneRanger, and Franchise/{{Zorro}}. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And that's not an exhaustive list of all the player characters available ingame!]]]]