History VideoGame / ThereCameAnEcho

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Happens fairly quickly as your first hideout gets attacked just after you meet Syll. The point of it is to hold out until Adam can prep the helicopter. The Tower experiences this ''immediately'' after that and you'll have to rescue them when Farrick's forces attack.

* CastFromHitPoints: After a fashion. You only have an energy meter which powers your shields and your non-pistol weapons. Once the meter hits bottom (and you blow through your two spare batteries), you're dead.
* EasterEgg: Try telling Wil Wheaton something you may have wanted to say to him for a long time. [[note]][[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Shut up, Wesley!]][[/note]]

* MilitaryAlphabet: The [=NATO=] alphabet, letters alpha through foxtrot, are used to designate waypoints.
-->'''Miranda:''' B, C, and D sound too similar on the battlefield.

* {{MacGuffin}}: The Radial Lock encryption software is essentially the reason Corrin is dragged into the plot, as his life hinges on the assumption that he can decode it. [[spoiler:It's rendered useless when Syll reveals that he already had root access to the codes encrypted by it.]]
* TheMole: Miranda starts out leading the guys who're attacking Corrin in the prologue. Once he's cornered at the airport, she helps him escape and reveals she was hired to protect him. [[spoiler: Later on, when everyone is locked in a containment cell, she reveals she was keeping Heather updated on the team's whereabouts the entire time.]]

** "What now, [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]]?" when you help Corrin escape from Ignite Defense.

** During mission six, saying "Activate tesslatronic remix" will change the background music to a remix done by DJ Tesslatron.

* ItsPersonal: The reason Corrin helps Syll with Farrick even though the plot is having less and less to do with him. The heroic thing to do would be to go along because it's become a big important thing, but really, he's tired of getting his life thrown out of whack.

** "B, C, D sound too similar on the battlefield."
* MissionControl: You provide the tactical direction for your units in the game.
* {{MacGuffin}}: Radial Lock

* {{Shout Out}}s: There Came an Echo is chock-full of these:
** "What now, Morpheus?" when you help Corrin escape from Ignite Defense.

* StealthSequel: [[spoiler:At least, this was the case before Iridium Studios chose to rename ''Sequence'' to ''VideoGame/BeforeTheEcho'' over challenging the legal claim on its original title. Before that, no direct connection between the two games was pointed out by either either Iridium Studios or the game, until the midway point of ''There Came an Echo'' makes itself clear that it's a direct sequel.]]
* StraightGay: Adam offhandedly mentions that he has a boyfriend when Corrin asks him if he's got any family waiting for him after the job.
* SuperBreedingProgram: The Tower's schtick. [[spoiler:At least, that's what Mir says at first. That bit was actually a lie told to conceal the fact that [[ArtificialHuman Syll's creation]] was more their goal.]]

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* {{Adorkable}}: Val, definitely.

* TheMole: Miranda starts out leading the guys who're attacking Corrin in the prologue. Once he's cornered at the airport, she helps him escape and reveals she was hired to protect him.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From the same group that brought you ''VideoGame/{{Sequence}}'', [[TitleDrop there came an echo]].]]

* StealthSequel: [[spoiler:The midway point of the game reveals it's a direct sequel to Iridium Studio's previous game, {{Sequence}}.]]

* {{Shout Out}}s: There Came an Echo is chock-full of these

* Shout Outs: There Came an Echo is chalk full of these
** "What now Morpheus" when you help Corrin is escape
** Malcolm Reynolds is in the airport checkpoint line.

-> B, C, D sound too similar on the battlefield

* MilitaryAlphabet: The [=NATO=] alphabet, letters alpha through foxtrot, are used to designate waypoints.

* FakeBrit: Syll. He puts up an accent from when you meet him until you meet Mir, after which he drops it when the latter calls him out on it.

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[[caption-width-right:459:From the same group that brought you ''VideoGame/{{Sequence}}'', [[TitleDrop there came an echo]].]]

The second release by up-and-coming developer [[http://www.playiridium.com/ Iridium Studios]], There Came An Echo is a real-time strategy game where you control up to five people using a combination of voice-based controls and traditional mouse-driven interfaces.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Happens fairly quickly as your first hideout gets attacked just after you meet Syll. The point of it is to hold out until Adam can prep the helicopter. The Tower experiences this ''immediately'' after that and you'll have to bail them out.

* CastFromHitPoints: After a fashion. You only have an energy meter which powers your shields and your non-pistol weapons. Once the meter hits bottom, you're dead.

* SuperBreedingProgram: The Tower's schtick.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A few examples:
** Val is Ashly Burch.
** Wil Wheaton (voice of Wesley Crusher) provides the voice for Corrin Webb.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Val fills this role.

* Stealth Sequel: [[spoiler:The midway point of the game reveals it's a direct sequel to Iridium Studio's previous game, {{Sequence}}.]]

You play as the faceless Sam, accompanied by the helpful and snarky Val, a similarly faceless personality. Your mission: guide the computer programmer Corrin Webb, developer of the highly-advanced encryption scheme Radial Lock, on a journey to break his own software.