Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone
Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone is a Freeware Spy Fiction First-Person Shooter by Brendon Chung, set in the nondescript South American locale of Nuevos Aires. You play Citizen Abel, a secret agent who embarks on missions that involve performing peculiar or outright bizarre actions, such as secretly feeding an insect to a man at a party, or taking covert photographs of black birds. Your actions are only ever explained at the end of a successful mission by a Motor Mouth robotic voice - and even then you never know who your "clients" are, or what their greater purpose is.
"To make it in Nuevos Aires, one needs nerves of silk and the filthiest of hands. Mix together a batch of espionage, some high-speed car chases, fire-spewing assassins, and you've got one oven that'll never bake cookies again. We provide the pliers and you bring the moxie."
—author's description of the game.
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Download it for Windows here.
Tropes used in Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone include:
- Awesomeness Meter: Parodied. In addition to your base mission payment, you're also rewarded bonus cash for a number of strange reasons, such as a "$100 Full Gas Tank bonus" in a mission with no vehicles.
- And the less said about the "Phantom Pants bonus", the better.
- Blown Across the Room: This is how Abel dies.
- Bittersweet Ending
- Chase Scene: And how!
- Canis Latinicus: The Manitoba Beast Bug has the Latin name of surprisibus surprisibus.
- Determinator: Citizen Abel thinks nothing of embarking on a high-speed foot chase after being shot three times.
- Evil Redhead: your target in mission 1 is the only red-headed man at the party, and in mission 2, the redheaded woman shoots you.
- The Faceless: Abel.
- The Hero Dies
- Ice Breaker: You break locks by freezing them and hitting them with a hammer.
- Mission Briefing: Which, for some reason, always takes place in the Furnace Room of whatever building you start in.
- My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Happens to Abel himself.
- No Name Given: Everyone you meet. Your contacts and targets in missions are only referred to by physical attributes, such as "the man with red hair".
- No OSHA Compliance: The Furnace Rooms in the missions become increasingly filled with crushing pistons.
- Romance Novel: Subverted. A woman in mission 2 reads a book entitled "Passionless Moments".
- Scoring Points: The mission payments are essentially just points, especially since you can't spend any of it.
- Slow Motion Fall
- Tuxedo and Martini: Abel is presented like this.
- The Unintelligible: Everyone you meet speaks using the exact same "wah wah" sound used by grown-ups in the Peanuts cartoon.
- Twist Ending: Abel dies at the end of mission 2.
- Weaponized Camera: In mission 2, the five birds explode when they are photographed.