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A woman and the man interested in her go on a date that involves spelunking. You think this would be a fun little date, right?
Nope. The woman is captured by black ops troopers, and the man pursues her and her captors into an underground base, where a sinister organization called the Restoration is waiting to bring forth what it believes will be a new golden age for America and the world. Starting with only a pistol, a flashlight, and some climbing gear, the man begins to tear the base apart looking for a way out...
It's short, but it's also only $15 and is easily available to anyone with an [[Xbox 360]] and an Internet connection. With 50 experience levels, 100 items to collect, and an intriguing story interwoven with compelling gameplay, $15 is quite a steal for one of the best games of the [[Xbox Live Arcade]] platform.
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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: A fairly prominent method of slipping through the complex, both to avoid combat and just to get around. Some of the vents are reinforced with plating that renders them resistant to everything short of a missile launcher.
* [[AKA
* [[A Taste of Power]]: The first segment gives you the second-best weapon and a mostly-complete suit of armor to play with before switching to Jason.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Justified. The few skills you start the game with are lost due to the player characters' death. The rest of the game is played using a different character.
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* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: Finding all the Gold Bars grants you golden versions of all the weapons in the game.
* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Meleeing soldiers in Power Armor is quite satisfying.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: You get an achievement for a certain number of these, and it deals more damage to the sturdier enemies.
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: {{spoiler|Lucius blows up the control room after Jason reaches it and they have a [[Just Between You and Me|nice pleasant conversation.]]}}
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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Shining Jason's flashlights on destructible walls will reveal what tool he can use to destroy them: normal bullets, grenades, foam, missiles, or high-velocity collisions.
* [[Cool Airship]]: {{spoiler|The final boss, which appears to be an ''[[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]].''}}
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* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: The inertial element can one-hit kill any minor enemy and do [[For Massive Damage|massive damage]] to bosses. On the other hand, it has the lowest rate of fire and one of the smallest clip sizes in the game, [[Difficult but Awesome|forcing you to actually aim rather than spread bullets willy-nilly]].
* [[Internet Backlash]]: A minor one. Thanks to some anti-homosexual themes in ''Empire'', there was brief talk of a boycott of the game. It ultimately didn't matter since the story of the game and the book barely cross over.
* [[It Gets Easier]]: At one point in the game, Jason notes with a chill that it's rather easy for him to shoot people now. [[Playing
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* [[Implacable Man]]: You, if you find the Fusion Helmet. As a bonus, the forcefield that allows this requires that you don't increase your movement speed beyond [[Unflinching Walk]] if you want it to stay active.
* [[Killer App]]: One of ''the'' major releases of summer 2009 for Xbox Live Arcade.
* [[Kill Him Already]]: Subverted:
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'''[[Torture Technician|Mr. Sweet]]:''': Welcome. ''[slowly advances, knife in hand]'' You don't look like a killer to me...
'''Jason''': ''[shoots him without a word]'' }}
* [[Lost Forever]]: The [[Infinity+1 Sword|Inertial Element]] is the only powerup that you can render completely un-collectible.
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* [[Multiple Endings]]: {{spoiler|If you go back to the jeep and press B, Jason will drive away, commenting that there's "plenty of fish in the sea."}}
** {{spoiler|Status Update: Single!}}
* [[New Game
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: You don't take damage from falls. Granted, this is pretty much the only way a Metroidvania can work, but it can feel a little silly sometimes when you can fall down a few stories without worrying.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Verbatim, and in excess, when {{spoiler|Lucius blows up the room that Jason is in}}.
* [[Olympic Swimmer]]: Presumably, Jason's pre-game fitness regimen included a ''lot'' of swimming.
* [[The Only One]]: Halfway through the game, Jason stumbles into the Restoration's factory, and Claire basically says "Hey, since you're doing such a good job anyway, why don't you put looking for a way out on hold and single handedly destroy the enemies' supply line." Jason [[Lampshade Hanging|points out how silly that is]], [[But Thou Must!|but does it anyway]]. Claire is actually surprised when he tells her what he's done.
* {{spoiler|[[Outrun the Fireball]]}}: Courtesy of [[Big Bad|Lucius]].
* [[Oxygen Meter]]: The player is subject to one of these... until Jason picks up the SCHCA Mask.
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* [[Powered Armor]]: You eventually come across the Omega Armor. It is deeply entertaining to use, especially when fully assembled.
* [[Railing Kill]]: You get an achievement for doing it 100 times!
* [[Right Man in
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Go to the surface, and pick pretty much any location.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: The Foam allows this, with proper use. In fact, the game seems designed around encouraging sequence breaks, [[Metroidvania|which is appropriate]].
* [[Shout
** The third spider tank boss fight is an homage to the fight at the end of ''[[Ghost in
** I see where your name comes from, [[The Bourne Series|Jason]] [[James Bond|Fleming]]!
** One of the Master Achievements is called Jason Bailey, a reference to [[Metroid]]'s Justin Bailey password.
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: The final weapon upgrade is a super-shotgun that can kill anything in one hit, at super-long range.
* [[The Slow Walk]]: The final piece of your armor basically makes you [[Immune to Bullets]] as long as you do this.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Despite little music being present in the game, a calming piano piece plays when you have to {{spoiler|navigate a base you flooded, complete with several still-drowning mooks}}.
* [[Story Breadcrumbs]]: Much of the plot can be gathered from guards who talk to one another when you're not killing them.
* [[Super Speed]]: About halfway through the game you are given Friction Dampeners that triple your speed. A few of the more interesting power-up placements involve solving a few logic puzzles that can only be solved with the gravity-busting properties of the boots. Sadly, you cannot [[Metroid|shinespark]], but you can use a later triple-jump ability to abuse the boots' charge-up time.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the opening sequence, the [[Player Character]]'s armour locks up, via a security measure, after he beats all the bad guys attacking the Vice President. Then his [[Voice
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[''black SUV explodes in the background'']
'''Voice:''' Oh, ''that'' Vice President? }}
* [[Ten
* [[The Other Rainforest]]: The setting of the game.
* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Lucius spends the entire climax standing in his observation tower while the player fights the final boss. He gets shot in the head in a cutscene.}}
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The soldiers scream when you send them flying (whether by uppercutting them with the Omega Armor, blowing them up with missiles or grenades, dive-bombing them with the [[Ground Pound]], or plowing into them with the Friction Dampener), and there's an achievement for making a hundred of them scream.
* [[Villain Ball]]: Lucius and the Restoration really should have read the [[Evil Overlord List]] to avoid things like [[Air Vent Passageway]] escape and [[Just Between You and Me]], but their biggest mistake has to be {{spoiler|hovering their [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]] over the nuclear missles to take out one guy instead of flying off to San Francisco.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Lucius has a pretty impressive one.
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: {{spoiler|Jason asks this almost verbatim of Claire, when she tells him that she was using him as cover to get into the [[Title Drop|Shadow Complex]]}}.
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Jason.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Jason taking down the complex was all planned, and encouraged during the process, by {{spoiler|Claire}}.
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