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''Michigan: Report from Hell'' is a [[Survival Horror]] video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture for the Playstation2. The player controls a cameraman of the Zaka TV news crew who are investigating the strange goings on in Chicago after it's covered by a mysterious fog along with sound engineer Jean-Philippe Brisco and one of six reporters. 

The game is played from the first person perspective as the cameraman, rather than take actions himself, [[Point and Click Game|highlights]] objects for the reporter to interact with, or enemies for her to shoot. If the reporter is killed, the game will skip to the next level where you meet with a new reporter.

Despite some graphical hiccups, God-awful voice acting and a mediocre story, the camera viewfinder perspective adds a level of immersion, and the game serves as a fairly unique experience, as expected of a Suda51 game. 

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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And you can let them.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: If you let her be, Anne.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]:  {{spoiler|Inverted, Brisco's the last person you see die in the game. Technically ''second'' to last if you count the Player Character.}}
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Brisco. ''Just Brisco''.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]/[[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Some people note that the characters ''just seem so aware of their surroundings'', to the point that, in a part where Justine, a woman you're trying to save, is shackled to a billiard table, everyone immediately comes to the conclusion that they have to put in ''missing billiard balls'' to help release Justine. Their course of action was ''correct''.
* [[Downer Ending]]:  {{spoiler|No matter what ending you get, the protagonist dies via assassination (the only difference is his attitude toward the whole thing), leaving the entire thing unexplained and information undisclosed.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: [[Zombie Infectee|Brisco]]}} 
* [[Escort Mission]]: The whole game; the player character usually can't die himself, but must protect his reporter.
* [[Giant Spider]]: A glowing, Australian sized one will jump on, bite, and kill the second reporter unless you knock her out of the way. If spotted early enough it will run off.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:  {{spoiler|Nina [[Eat Me|allows a monster to eat her]] so she can [[Kill It Through Its Stomach|blow it up from inside]] and the cameraman and Brisco can escape.}}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The characters are prone to stupid moments. ''Very'' prone.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Any monster bigger than a leech.
* [[Karma Meter]]: The player can earn "Immoral Points" for actions such as shoving people, allowing the reporter to die or filming strangers in mortal peril rather than [[Quick Time Event|putting down the camera]] to help them. 
* [[Kill'Em All]]: ''No one'' survives this experience.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Similar to [[Dead Rising]], you can earn Erotic Points from recording [[Panty Shot|areas of interest]]. 
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: The game implies it's genetic tampering causing the monsters, but you see several signs of the supernatural, as well.
* [[Multiple Endings]]:  {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|But the protagonist dies in all of them, when he's about to reveal what happened]].}}
* [[Mockumentary]]: A playable variant.
* [[Monster Misogyny]]: The monsters will only attack the female reporters, ignoring the cameraman and sound technician.
** When you get the male reporter Mark, though, the monsters go for him too. 
* [[No Export for You]]: The game was never licensed for a US release.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Timed Mission]]: The player has until his [[Justified Trope|film runs out]] to complete each level, but since they are usually given just over 30 minutes per level, it's rarely an issue. 
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Certain characters go by B-Movie logic, so...
* [[The Un Reveal]]:  {{spoiler|The cameraman is shot before he can disclose who's behind everything,}} 
* [[Vagina Dentata]]: A prominent monster type appears to be this. 
* [[The Virus]]
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Inverted, the voice acting gets ''worse'' over time.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: There is a level that takes place in a camping lodge on the mountains somewhere in Chicago. While it ''is'' a big city, the nearest mountain range to Chicago is a few hundred miles away, in the east parts of Ohio and Kentucky (and even there, it's a stretch).
** If it's taking place in Chicago, it's '''not''' in Michigan.
*** "Michigan" refers to Lake Michigan. For some reason.

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[[Category:Survival Horror]]
[[Category:Suda 51]]
[[Category:Michigan Report From Hell]]