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2 | [[caption-width-right:120:"This is you; you smoke and wear shirts with cobras on them. You are bad ass."]] |
3 | A top-down, 2-D VehicularCombat game by Science of Tomorrow, released in 2005, about [[PlayerCharacter one man]] and his quest for vengeance. |
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5 | The game begins in 1983, when [[BigBad Jebediah Priest]] escapes from prison with the help of his gang, the Red Texas Four, to exact revenge on Santos, a lawman, and the brother of the PlayerCharacter. [[PlotTriggeringDeath Santos is executed in full view of his family]], [[WouldHurtAChild his children are kidnapped]], and his CoolCar is stolen as the Four flee into Mexico. [[PlayerCharacter You]], a man with a yellow Beetle, a sawn-off shotgun, and a strong desire for vengeance, head into Mexico to kill the Four, rescue your brother's kids, and get his car back. |
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9 | * TheAllegedCar: The Beetle and the Tooper. |
10 | * BackstabBackfire: [[spoiler: The last boss. [[IncendiaryExponent What a way to go.]]]] |
11 | * BattleIntro: Before each boss fight, a drawing of PlayerCharacter is shown directly across from a drawing of the boss in question, all of which is superimposed on the background for any fullscreen menu or message. |
12 | * BossBattle: There are a total of four, but the first three involve loads of Mooks. |
13 | * BoringButPractical: As far as weapons go, the bullet-based weapons tend to be this. |
14 | * CollisionDamage: Oddly averted; no car can take damage from collisions. |
15 | * CoolCar: There are muscle cars, sports cars, a [=DeLorean=], and an extremely sporty version of the El Camino. Take your pick. |
16 | * CoupDeGraceCutscene: For all but one boss. [[spoiler: The third boss is spared.]] |
17 | * {{Cutscene}}: All cutscenes are in the form of comics that are slid across the screen, lit/darkened, and otherwise manipulated without involving any traditional animation. Apparently .lua scripting is used to achieve this effect. |
18 | * CriticalExistenceFailure: After taking a certain amount of damage, any car in the game can and will explode. Besides smoking at about 40% health, nothing else happens to a damaged car. |
19 | * [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist Death Makes You Loose Your Cargo And 25% Of Your Money]] |
20 | * ElaborateEqualsEffective: Nicer-looking cars and weapons are generally more effective. |
21 | * EndlessGame: Nothing really happens after defeating the last boss. |
22 | * EveryCarIsAPinto: No actual Pintos, but every car explodes after taking too much damage. |
23 | * FiringOneHanded: [[WildMassGuessing How else can you aim and fire a gun from your window while driving?]] |
24 | * FreewareGames |
25 | * GeoEffects: Driving off-road slows you down. |
26 | * GunsAkimbo: You can carry two weapons, but you can only fire one at a time (which one you fire is dependent on whether you're aiming to the left or to the right of your car; aim to the left, and you fire your left weapon. Aim to the right, and you fire your right weapon). |
27 | * InfallibleBabble: Which is weird, since you normally deal with legally and morally questionable characters. |
28 | * ItsUpToYou: Your personal revenge isn't something most people fight for. |
29 | %%* LevelEditor |
30 | * MoreDakka: In multiple flavors, no less, each more expensive and more damaging than the last. |
31 | * NewOldWest: Strong hints of this, but not technically a "Western", as it takes place in Mexico. |
32 | * NoNameGiven: The PlayerCharacter, though in his BattleIntro his nickname changes with each boss. For the first boss, it's Unknown. The other three names are Snake, Cobra, and [[TitleDrop Mexican Motor Mafia]]. |
33 | * OmnicidalNeutral: The PlayerCharacter, though his intentions aside from revenge are never stated. Can be closer to traditional Good or Evil based on player actions. |
34 | * OutsideTheBoxTactic: The [[spoiler: R/C Car Bombs ]] can be used to great effect for such tactics, though having the [[spoiler: [=JATO Rockets=]]] is practically required to beat the last boss. |
35 | * OverworldNotToScale |
36 | * PermanentlyMissableContent: |
37 | ** Any car you drive to the Warehouse (to rescue Santos' kids). That instance of that car will be replaced by the unique, almost all-powerful [[CoolCar Mare Cruiser]]. |
38 | ** Any weapons you had before getting [[spoiler:the R/C Car Bombs and JATO Rockets]], respectively. On top of that, those two unique weapons themselves cannot be re-obtained if you replace them... though anyone with a little determination and a little know-how can modify their saved games (.fsv format) with any decent text editor. In fact, most of the lines in a saved game are plain English followed by numbers denoting type or amount. |
39 | * PlotLock: Parts of your map (which should, by all rights, be a full map of the region) are obtained as the plot progresses (mostly through beating bosses). The second part of the map is obtained when [[spoiler: the first boss unwittingly loses a round of Grenade Tennis while pinned under his wrecked car]]. |
40 | * RepeatableQuest: Only some side missions. |
41 | * RevolversAreJustBetter: Subverted, as the only revolver is a .38 with a serious lack of power. |
42 | * {{Sidequest}}: Fetch-and-Deliver quests, Shoot-These-Cars-For-Me quests, and Here's-Something-For-Your-Trouble (one-of-a-kind-weapon retrieval) quests. |
43 | * ShortRangeShotgun: Somewhat averted. |
44 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: At short-to-medium range, a shotgun can work wonders. Outside of that range, not so much. |
45 | * SidetrackBonus: Sidequesting is usually the only way to get money. Just don't buy any exceptionally rare cars before going to rescue Santos' kids, because [[PermanentlyMissableContent they'll be gone after that]]. |
46 | * StuffBlowingUp: So many different flavors of explosive death in this game...[[HoistByHisOwnPetard Including your own]], if you're not careful. |
47 | * SuspendSave: Whenever exiting the game by the normal method, your status is saved. |
48 | * TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The first boss, La Toro.]] |
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