Breakdown (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
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| Director(s) | Masafumi Shibano |
| Designer(s) | Ryouji Ichikari |
| Platform(s) | Xbox |
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First person Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Breakdown (Japanese: ブレイクダウン Hepburn: Bureikudaun?) is a first-person action game released by Namco in 2004 for the Microsoft Xbox console. The game was praised for its use of the first-person perspective for storytelling.
Although Breakdown is a first-person action game, it integrates elements of a fighting game and uses auto-lock for shooting enemies. The viewpoint is always the player's, and interaction with objects is realistic: ammunition is picked up by looking down and grabbing it (instead of walking over it), doors are opened by grabbing the handle, key cards used by swiping them over a scanner and ladders climbed by using one's arms. Health and energy are replenished by consuming energy bars, hamburgers, and sodas.
An underground complex known by humanity as Site Zero, has been discovered in Japan as a cause for increased earthquake activity. Built by unknown forces and controlled by a being known as Nexus, a research facility to study the complex and its inhabitants, the T'lan, is established. As the game begins, there have been minor skirmishes between the humans and seemingly invincible T’lan.
Protagonist Derrick Cole has developed amnesia from an injection of T’langen, a fluid recovered from Site Zero which was intended to create supersoldiers with T'lan abilities. He is in a recovery facility near Site Zero at the beginning of the war between the humans and Nexus, which overflows into the facility. Derrick is rescued by a mysterious woman named Alex Hendrickson, who seems to know him and is dismayed about his amnesia. As they make their escape, they are separated by an earthquake during an encounter with T'lan warriors. As they go their separate ways, Derrick's new abilities manifest and he is able to break through the T'lan energy shields like Alex. The two eventually reunite and encounter Solus, a human-like T'lan who defeats both Derrick and Alex with ease before running off to complete a different objective.
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