Forced Tutorial: Difference between revisions

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== [[Action Adventure]] ==

** Atomica in ''[[Burnout]] Paradise'' will interrupt your driving every minute with a tutorial lecture. No, he will not [[Stop Helping Me|Stop Helping You.]]

 

* The ''[[Call of Duty]]'' series plays with this concept. In ''Modern Warfare'', the player must pass through a killhouse modeled after the first level. In ''[[Call of Duty]] 2'', the player is a newly-drafted Russian Infantryman literally just off the truck. The tutorial consists of shooting plates and bottles in a makeshift shooting range, throwing potatoes into a destroyed building's windows for grenade practice ("Grenades are more valuable than you'll ever be!") and [[This Is Not a Drill|destroying a German armored car which has just entered the area]].

** The tutorial mission of ''Modern Warfare 2'', though in-story it's justified: the first part is a shooting range, where you're showing the local militia how to aim and shoot properly. The second is an obstacle course, which you must go through because a general is hoping to recruit someone into his task force.

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== [[Stealth Based Game]] ==

* The first level of the third ''[[Thief]]'' game is a tutorial for Xbox players who never played ''Dark Project'' or ''Metal Age'' on the PC, and it's a follow-the-blue-footsteps lesson on sneaking, manipulating the environment and so forth that Thief veterans have no choice but slog through because you can't turn off the tutorial; you have to do exactly what the level says (follow exactly this path, distract the guard exactly this way) or it will reset back to that part of the lesson to make sure you get it. Especially jarring since the first level of the first game was also a tutorial, but you can solve the challenges however you like (walk across carpet to reduce noise? Nah, running leap over the noisy floor works just as well in half the time!) and the ''Thief'' games are all about finding your own way past obstacles.

* The tutorial and opening cutscenes chew up the first hour of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' and no, you can't skip any of it.

 

** ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]]'' is a little less annoying about this, using the 'learn or die' method for many concepts or using pop ups in quiet areas.

 

* ''[[Eat Lead the Return of Matt Hazard]]'' starts off with a forced tutorial level. Of course, the game being a loving parody of videogames, your character lampshades this ("Like I don't know how to shoot a gun."), and even pats the game designers on the back a little. ("I gotta admit, this moving-forward-into-cover thing is kinda cool.")

 

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