History VideoGame / Rama

** If you run out of time for the time bomb [[WordOfGod Clarke]] himself [[PlayerNudge tells you that there is a way to stop them]].

* MistakenForQuake: At one point in the game, [[CameraAbuse the camera rattles]] when an earthquake-like tremor shakes Rama. Dr. Wakefield and Brown then chime in via vidmail that it's actually Rama altering its course, which [[spoiler:turns out to now be on [[ColonyDrop an impact course with Earth]]. It changes again later on to a safer course, but [[FromBadToWorse the nuclear bombs brought by the crew are armed by then]].]]

* NonStandardGameOver: If, after ignoring Heilmann's instructions to keep away from the Iceport until further notice, Brown will contact you once on your wrist phone and issue a warning. If you do it again, Brown will call you essentially to tell you [[FiringDay "You're fired!"]].

* NonStandardGameOver: If, after ignoring Heilmann's instructions to keep away from the Iceport until further notice, Brown will contact you once on your wrist phone and issue a warning. If you do it again, Brown will call you essentially to tell you [["You're Fired!'' FiringDay]].

* NonStandardGameOver: If, after ignoring Heilmann's instructions to keep away from the Iceport until further notice, Brown will contact you once on your wrist phone and issue a warning. If you do it again, Brown will call you essentially to tell you [["You're Fired!'' YouAreFired]].

* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: You are the replacement, sent to Rama after the death of mission commander Valeriy Borzov during a routine surgery gone wrong.

* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler: Sabatini is among the missing at the end of the game. Her uniform and belongings are found but no body. Somewhat unjustified as the game leaves out most of her unlikable aspects. She is not quite the FemmeFatale that she was in the book and seems to be manipulated by Brown and Heilmann.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Irina Turgenyev was quiet and rarely spoke in the book. In the game, she's very chummy with the player character.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Irina Turgenyev was quiet and rarely spoke in the book. In the game, she's very chummy with the player character.

* AscendedExtra: Irina Turgenyev gets a much more prominent role here than in the book.

--> '''Puck:''' (''upon the character inspecting or entering an AcidPool'') That's as caustic as I am.

* FrickingLaserBeams:
** London has a wall of energy in front of it that pulses on and off in a pattern, leaving a small window for the player to cross unharmed at the right moment. Fortunately, it can be promptly disabled on the other side.
** A decently-sized energy weapon is set off by the PlayerCharacter in one site on the Raman plains to melt an otherwise indestructible cube of transparent material in another location, allowing the PlayerCharacter to take another puzzle piece for city access.

* SealedEvilInACan: "Evil" is debatable, but the spider biots are first visible locked into a large caged pen. If Puck is used to examine the pen and/or its gate, he pointedly wonders [[TemptingFate what they could do if they got out]]. Eventually, they do, adding to the danger level throughout the plains.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: If a spider biot catches the PlayerCharacter, they are treated to a first-person view of the biot fatally stabbing them with a ''large''(and soon very bloody) metal spike.

* {{Spinventory}}: You can rotate inventory items when in close-up view.

* AdaptedOut: The events of ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' are not mentioned or referenced in-game.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Almost literally; avians can be briefly seen flying past the hub site and out on the plains of Rama, whereas in the novel, they were only encountered while des Jardins and Wakefield explored the island of New York.

* FrickingLaserBeams: London has a wall of energy in front of it that pulses on and off in a pattern, leaving a small window for the player to cross unharmed at the right moment. Fortunately, it can be promptly disabled on the other side.

* BigDumbObject: Rama itself.

* TimeAbyss: The ''Rama''.

** Mission commander Valeriy Borzov dies of a botched routine surgery before the game ever begins, prompting the arrival on Rama of the PlayerCharaver as a replacement.
** [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Reggie Wilson]] befalls this when [[spoiler:he crashes a rover into one of the crab biots during a capture operation, whereupon it chews him up along with his crashed rover. Worse, Sabatini filmed it all on TV, causing major concern among the crew and Earth over the mission.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: Janos Tabori and Hiro Yamanaka go unseen, although the two characters are said to be present in some capacity. Otto Heilmann gives a HandWave for their absence based on different assignments from the PlayerCharacter. To be fair, the game already had an impressively large cast for its time, and it would have been cost-prohibitive to cast more actors.