History VideoGame / Vector

Not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/{{Vectrex}}, ''Vector Stunt'', ''VideoGame/VectorMan'', or [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Vector the Crocodile]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first game takes place in a dystopian city-state with all sorts of advanced near-future technology. The sequel takes it up to eleven by taking place so far into the future that ''even more'' advanced technology, starscrapers, spaceports, and massive laboratories are commonplace.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first game takes place in a dystopian city-state with all sorts of advanced near-future technology. The sequel takes it UpToEleven by taking place so far into the future that ''even more'' advanced technology, starscrapers, spaceports, and massive laboratories are commonplace.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Some of the fancier free-running tricks will actually slow you down compared to normal jumps and vaults, or at least not be any faster. Apparently, if you're going to thumb your nose at TheMan while you're running for your life, you might as well do so with ''style''.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: You're safe, and are able to live a perfect life under TheMan... at the cost of your freedom and individuality.

A sequel titled ''Vector 2'' was released in 2016. The protagonist of this game is now the subject of an experiment in LeParkour across randomly-generated levels deep inside a massive lab, filled with various deadly obstacles, such as FrickinLaserBeams and land mines. If your character dies, his consciousness is transferred into a clone, although you keep the same skills.

Released in 2012 for IOSGames and Android, ''Vector'' is best described as a cross between ''VideoGame/{{Canabalt}}'' and ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'', especially the iOS prequel to the latter. Like ''Canabalt'', the game is a side-scrolling action game with simple touchscreen controls, with a silhouetted man constantly running across the rooftops of a futuristic city. And like ''Mirror's Edge'', the character has to evade pursuit by the taser-wielding police, using a wide variety of realistic LeParkour moves to slide, tumble, swing, vault, roll, leap and run towards the end of each level set in parts of a large shiny city.

* AsceticAesthetic

* CrapsaccharineWorld

* EscapeSequence: Every level has you escaping from an armed pursuer.

* WallJump: Later levels can have you gain height by leaping between two closely-set walls.
* XMeetsY: ''Canabalt'' meets ''Mirror's Edge'', naturally.

* CasualGame: Levels are short, no more than two minutes for each complete run, and the only controls are to swipe up, down, left and right anywhere on the touchscreen.

Released in 2012 for IOSGames and Android, ''Vector'' is best described as a cross between ''{{Canabalt}}'' and ''MirrorsEdge'', especially the iOS prequel to the latter. Like ''Canabalt'', the game is a side-scrolling action game with simple touchscreen controls, with a silhouetted man constantly running across the rooftops of a futuristic city. And like ''Mirror's Edge'', the character has to evade pursuit by the taser-wielding police, using a wide variety of realistic LeParkour moves to slide, tumble, swing, vault, roll, leap and run towards the end of each level set in parts of a large shiny city.

* Disturbed Doves: On most rooftops, and one of the many shout-outs to ''Canabalt''.

* Freemium: The core game is free. The paid edition has bonus (non-story) levels, and you earn more coins from each level, which makes it a lot easier to earn all the coins you'll need to unlock all the special moves required for 100% completion. Being a freemium game, of course, you can also buy these coins with real money.

It's a highly conformist, totalitarian post-cyberpunk world, where strife and conflict have been ended by erasing freedom and individuality of every kind. The workplace is an dark room filled with endless rows of identical cubicles, manned by identical men in suits, screened by security and with Big Brother always watching. There's no need for you to rush, because you are already where you are meant to be. There's no need for you to think. The pressure is removed, all decisions are made. Comfort, harmony and order are offered, providing only that you... obey.

One cubicle worker, driven to the edge, snaps. Throwing his earpiece to the ground and clutching at his head, he immediately draws the attention of the security forces who try to take him down. He runs through the endless rows, smashing through the skyscraper window at the end of the room... and keeps on running.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Some of the fancier free-free running tricks will actually slow you down compared to normal jumps, or at least not be any better. Apparently, if you're goig to thumb your nose at TheMan while you're running for your life, you might as well do so with ''style''.
* CasualGame: Levels are short, no more than two minutes for each complete run, and the only controls are to swipe up, down, left and right anywhere on the screen.
* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: You go through a lot of these.

* Disturbed Doves: One of the many shout-outs to ''Canabalt''.
* EscapeSequence: Every single level.

* LeParkour: The entire gameplay is built around this, and aside from some of the long distance leaps, is fairly realistic. While you can complete the levels with normal jumps and slides, you can earn extra points by doing specific 'tricks' at certain points.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: Certainly ''looks'' like a rotoscoped game, at least, with an incredible amount detail in the runner's movements.

* SoftGlass: All the windows. Especially bad since, in the intro, the runner strips off his jacket and shirt before going through the first one.

* XMeetsY: Canabalt meets Mirror's Edge, naturally.

Simple to learn but difficult to master, timing is ''crucial'' if you want to keep the runner moving fast enough to evade capture; for example, when you slide upwards while approaching an waist-high obstacle crate determines whether you leap onto it, completely over it, vault it (the fastest way) or simply roll over the top as you practically crash into it. Aside from the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6N-upDgJxM impressive opening]], there's not much of a plot, although one sequence half way through the game thus far hints at more to come.

Released in 2012 for IOSGames and Android, ''Vector'' is best described as a cross between ''{{Canabalt}}'' and ''MirrorsEdge'', especially the iOS prequel to the latter. Like ''Canabalt'', the game is a side-scrolling action game with simple touchscreen controls, with a silhouetted man constantly running across the rooftops of a futuristic city. And like ''Mirror's Edge'', the character has to evade pursuit by the taser-wielding police, using a wide variety of realistic LeParkour moves to slide, tumble, swing, vault, leap and run towards the end of each level set in a large shiny city.

Simple to learn but difficult to master, timing is ''crucial'' if you want to keep the runner moving fast enough to evade capture; when you slide upwards while approaching a crate determines whether you leap onto it, completely over it, vault it (the fastest way) or simply roll over the top if you leave it too late and practically crash into the obstacle. Aside from the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6N-upDgJxM impressive opening]], there's not much of a plot, although one sequence half way through the game thus far hints at more to come.