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August 15, 2006
Game over
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you have spent (wasted?) a considerable -- inordinate, even -- amount of time clicking and pressing your way through a series of pixilated challenges in an effort to free the nameless digital president from the clutches of a radical and violent group known by the ironic appellation "Sons of Liberty," a shadowy collective bent on creating generic mayhem in pursuit of unspecified goals. Along the way you have, regrettably but necessarily, slain countless weapon-wielding assailants in your tireless quest to penetrate to the core of Shell 2 where the nameless digital president is being held. You have outwitted wily guards, shot down deadly drones, and traversed unstable bridges while dodging automatic gunfire. A stroll in the park it was not.
Now you must retrieve the remote-controlled missile launcher by swimming through a maze of flooded passageways and then fire a missile through an air duct and into the central control room in order to neutralize the power source for Shell 2. This will turn off the electric force-field protecting the door to the room where the nameless digital president is being held. After retrieving the remote-controlled missile launcher, you give your thumbs a break. In the interim, a well-meaning person -- a person you love without reservation or qualification -- innocently switches off the console, assuming it had been mistakenly left running. In addition, you have stupidly neglected to save your progress.
What, then, do you do? After you recover from the shock of this unexpected setback, you set about re-retrieving the remote-controlled missile launcher and, once again, attempt to neutralize the power source at the core of Shell 2. You have no choice: The nameless digital president must be saved.
Posted by teb at August 15, 2006 10:46 AM