Written Overview of game Task 3

 Breakdown

Story- A army sergeant’s vehicle breaks down while on a last stand operation against a superior alien force.

Location- Unnamed European city

Protagonists – British Army

Antagonists- ‘The Horde’

Characters-

Alexis Gordon - Main protagonist – A former Russian soldier who went to live in Britain and soon became a respected and battle hardened sergeant. He is humanity's last hope at dealing a crippling blow to The Hordes armies.

Daniel Leeroy - Protagonists squad member – A former enemy turned best friend of Alexis and they have fought many battles against the horde which has strengthened their bonding. Daniel is one of the squad members you team up with in the game.

Field Marshal McCoy - Head of the British army - A decorated war veteran who holds immense power over the armies of Europe and plans to take Europe for himself with secret reserved forces once The Horde has been disposed of and the other nations are at their weakest. His ultimate goal is of a new world order with all nations under the British’s heel

Time period – 2050

Power ups – Extra lives and armour vests are scattered around the levels. The extra lives allow the player to live after dying and the armour vests allow the player to take more hits.

Boss fights – After each stage, a powerful alien with a health bar confronts the player and they are forced to use the environment against them due to lack of weapons. After each boss is defeated, the player finds a squad member and teams up with them, allowing for ability’s to be used. For example, an extra squad member can give the player boosts on to higher ledges, which would be introduced in the next stage upon defeating their respective boss.

Art Style- Since the game is set in a destroyed city, all the buildings are either destroyed or still burning, and as a result of this, the game has a rather drab colour scheme which also emphasizes the fact that humanity's hopes for a better future has now vanished and that the world is resigned to its fate.

Theme- The theme is of isolation and keeping the players sanity hence the title ‘Breakdown’. The player has the deal with mankind’s dominion over the world broken and The Hordes invasion nearly complete. The game is not about humanity’s triumph over impossible odds, but rather humanity’s final stand before The Horde terraforms the planet killing off all humanity.

 Complete synopsis- The game is set in 2050, 5 years after the first appearance of The Horde, a vastly superior alien force, who after their planets resources expire, harden their hearts and enlarge their intellect’s and look for inhabitable planets to take over. Humanity’s armies have been reduced to a third of their size, and the only army that is still powerful in their own right is the British army. Their leader, Field Marshal McCoy has plans to use a secret reserve force of 3 million men to take over Europe after the horde is dealt with and to establish a new world order with Britain as the dominant country despite universal knowledge among earths forces that the war is lost. The war against the horde is nearly at an end with humanity suffering catastrophic losses and the horde just keeps getting reinforcements from their world light years away. It is obvious that humanity has lost and after the detection of a massive device humanity’s scientists are convinced is a world terraformer, the worlds combined forces decide to launch operation ‘Rolling Thunder’ in an final desperate effort for a large crippling blow at The Horde. Their plan is to infiltrate a European city where the alien mothership is located over, somehow infiltrate it and destroy it, which will, despite their inevitable victory, hit The Horde hard. In command of this operation is Alexis Gordon, a celebrated and hardened sergeant. While within the city, Alexis’s car breaks down and he is forced to make it on foot towards the motherships entrance portal, while re-joining lost squad members along the way.