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Lucas [[Name of Cain|Kane]] is an ordinary [[New York City]] [[Geek|IT administrator]] until he murders a total stranger in a possessed trance and flees the crime scene. From there on, he becomes a fugitive from the law, relentlessly chased by police officers Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles. But those two become the least of his concerns when he unexpectedly gains [[Stock Super Powers|superpowers]] and becomes the target of an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] that initially manipulated him into committing murder in the first place... And that all happens on the backdrop of global ''cooling'' [[Apocalypse How|around ten degrees Celsius every day]].
'''''Fahrenheit''''' is a highly cinematic [[Action Adventure]] game developed by [[Quantic Dream]] and written by David Cage in 2005. It was redubbed to ''
Met by universal critical acclaim and good sales, ''Fahrenheit'' began as one of the best story-driven games of recent years and was occasionally touted as a game to revive the flagging adventure genre. Unfortunately, many players were disappointed with the final third of its story -- allegedly the product of rushed development driven by [[Executive Meddling]] -- which quickly balloons into an extreme [[Gainax Ending]], without even the courtesy of foreshadowing, and is remembered mostly for its incoherence.
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One of the most prominent gameplay features of the game was so-called "[[Press X to Not Die|physical challenges]]", which required the player to press several buttons in close succession or just hit left and right very, very fast. These were used to lend a sense of physical urgency to the game's more fast-paced scenes, and, by and large, succeeded; however, some players found the mechanic distracting or overused.
There is also a [[Spiritual Successor]]. See ''[[
Not to be confused with ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''.
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* [[A God Am I]]: This is the main reason why the Orange Clan wants the Indigo Child even if they already controlled everything.
* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: You'll hear a lot of it from your guide in the tutorial.
* [[Action Commands]]: These pretty much ''are'' the combat system, and a lot of non-combat events are handled this way as well.
* [[After the End]]: If you mess up, this is what you get. Not that the "happy" ending is all sunshine and rainbows, mind.
* [[
* [[All Just a Dream]]: The {{spoiler|Oracle}} initially masks his attacks as such.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The {{spoiler|Orange Clan}}.
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** [[Memetic Mutation|He's more American than Tyler is!]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Genre Busting]]: Some elements of [[Monkey Island]] style adventuring, ''[[God of War (
* [[Hallucinations]]: Several of which [[Your Mind Makes It Real|can potentially kill you.]]
* [[Have a Nice Death]]: Every single chapter of the game has its own game over screen if you screw something up, [[Nonstandard Game Over|with a monologue by the dead character]] usually starting with the phrase "...and that's how my story ends". Pretty impressive, actually.
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: The Orange and Purple Clan.
* [[Letter Motif]]: The connection Tyler or Carla establish between Marcus and Lucas, via a book and/or photo.
** There are others, possibly unintentional: CV (Carla Valenti, Curriculum Vitae - does her job as her described, "to the letter") TM (Tyler Miles, [[
** If you want to take the concept further, DC (game designer David Cage) almost seems like a nod to [[DC Comics]].
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: Look closely at those devices Carla and Tyler are using in the bathroom parts of the diner. Don't you think they look suspiciously like iPads five years before the fact? They're certainly too svelte and stylish to be regular tablet PCs.
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* [[Milky White Eyes]]: Agatha. But that's okay, [[Memetic Mutation|because eyes aren't the only way to see]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Carla, aside from her being the secondary protagonist of the story, seems to exist mostly to provide fanservice, including a chapter starting with her in the shower, then spending a couple of minutes of gameplay guiding her around her apartment in her underwear. {{spoiler|And then there's the sex scene...}}
* [[Multiple Endings]]: You can change the story at pretty much every chapter, right up to and including the end. Failure doesn't always result in a game over, although you might want to invoke them [[Gotta Catch Em All|specifically to watch all the game content]]. At the end, there's three endings, depending on who {{spoiler|gets the Indigo Child}}; one [[The End of the World
* [[Name of Cain]]: Lucas himself.
* [[Never My Fault]]: According to Professor Kuriakin, the Oracle must never taint himself with the blood of another. This is why he chooses to possess anyone to murder that victim.
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* [[New York City Cops]]: Lots of them.
* [[No Time to Explain]]: Both Lucas and Carla pull this one.
* [[Oh Crap]]: [[The Dragon|The Oracle]] has this expression when Lucas manages to counter his telekinesis. Since the Oracle only has two other expression ([[The Stoic|completely neutral]] and [[Slasher Smile
* [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The {{spoiler|Orange Clan}}.
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: Two, in addition to a mandatory one; see the article for a detailed entry.
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* [[Police Are Useless]]: Not so much. You can still miss obvious things when playing as Carla and Tyler, but the supporting officers are astute and good at their jobs regardless.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: All three main characters pull it off at least once, but especially Lucas... funny seeing how he is the only main character who ''isn't'' a detective.
* [[Put
* [[Sanity Meter]]: When the meter is full, it reads NEUTRAL rather than WELL or GOOD etc. Yeah... it's that sort of game.
** Should it drop to zero, the character you're playing will snap and...well, kill themselves. However, you usually have some control over the meter, with only one decision ( {{spoiler|Tyler staying in New York, rather than leaving with Samantha}}) causing it to plummet precipitously.
* [[
* [[Shout-Out]]: Several.
** While looking at Takeo, Tyler compares him to a character from [[Gremlins]].
** The orderly in the medical hospital looks and acts almost exactly like the one in [[The Silence of the Lambs]]. He's even called Barney.
** During the [[Stern Chase]], Lucas needs a place to hide so he goes to see his old girlfriend. Long story short, he ends up having [[Breakfast
** The professor who is an expert in Mayan societies is called Kuriyakin which is ''very'' similiar to [[The Man
** Lucas poses as a reporter named John Cunningham. Several people bearing this name [[wikipedia:John Cunningham|are writers of one sort or another]].
** In one of the childhood flashback scenes, Lucas must scale a telephone pole in Wishita, which makes him a [[wikipedia:Wichita Lineman|"Wishita Lineman"]]
** The use of bullet time and [[Wire Fu]] during the apartment escape, made [[Lampshade Hanging|more obvious]] when the scene involves [[The Matrix|hanging from a helicopter then backflipping near a subway train]].
** Several of the camera angles and character poses when a character is possessed resemble [[The Shawshank Redemption]] [[Redemption in
** {{spoiler|Chroma}} is pretty much an obvious nod to [[Star Wars]]. [[What Could Have Been|No force lightning though...]]
** Technically there's a shout out to the whole video game medium several times, courtesy of Detective Miles.
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** Lucas is shown reading an assortment of books, whether it's Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]'' (which forms a small part of the plot) or [[Nietzche Wannabe|Nietzche's]] ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra''.
* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Lucas' hair starts to go white after spending time in "The Wave".
* [[Six Is Nine]]: Carla and Tyler are trying to find Lucas in apartment 369, but the first "room 369" you enter has someone else inside; the lettering on the door un-sticks and swivels to reveal that they're actually at room 366. The mistake gives Lucas just enough time to get his own objective done and hide.
* [[Soul Brotha]]: Tyler. If the fact that his apartment looks like it came right out of [[The Seventies]] wasn't a big enough clue, he is ''constantly'' accompanied by a sleazy funk soundtrack wherever he goes.
* [[Stern Chase]]: Lucas for the majority of the story.
* [[Story to Gameplay Ratio]]: Pretty much 50/50. [[Metal Gear Solid|Hideo Kojima]], take note!
* [[
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Poor {{spoiler|Tiffany. Her [[Plotline Death]] seems to come right in time to make the [[Strangled
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|The Purple Clan resurrecting Lucas]], in a rare case of the PC being that bigger fish. He's ''not'' their ally by any means, but at the point where they bring him back, the Orange Clan is on the verge of winning; Lucas coming back represents their last chance to complete the Prophecy. And if Lucas comes out on top and gets the Indigo Child, they're far better off than if the Oracle gets it, since Lucas has no clue what the hell he's doing with the power of the Chroma and they can run back to the Net, while the Orange Clan will destroy them for good if they win. [[Xanatos Gambit|They really can't lose.]]}}
* [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: Most of the music on Lucas's stereo is oddly appropriate to this particular situation. Notably, the second time you get a chance to play it is right before his estranged girlfriend Tiffany stops by to pick up her things, and the second song queued up is Theory of a Deadman's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sKDd9uOW-0&ob=av2n Santa Monica]", which is about a guy's girlfriend having left him.
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** Plotwise the increasingly fantastic plot elements start to look like this after a relatively gritty and grounded start.
* [[Unwinnable By Mistake]] (The PC version suffered from a timing bug in the [[Press X to Not Die]] sequences. Depending on your system config, the time when you could enter commands could be as low as a quarter of the time that the game indicated to you. This wasn't too bad in the early sequences, but later in the game the puzzles became impossible to complete, because the game would decide to make you die before it even showed you the full sequence you had to enter)
** This same bug can also turn up in a few places in the [[
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Lucas has been manipulated by {{spoiler|the AI disguised as Agatha}}.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: ''Fahrenheit'' was originally conceived as an [[Episodic Game|episodic series]] in thirteen parts, something which was emphasized a fair deal in early previews. This idea was eventually dropped.
* [[What Happened to
** Maybe he was implying that the Purple clan are [[Image Boards|Anonymous]].
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: There is a general preference of "K" over "C" in many names. It's almost surprising two of the protagonists aren't titled Lukas Kane and Karla Valenti, but one suspects David Cage was conscious of [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|overkill]].
* [[Zeerust]]: Averted? It might be too early to say, but judging by the use of technology throughout the game chances are it'll still look pretty current in a decade or so.
** Hell, all the talk of the [[The War
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