I Am an Insane Rogue AI: Difference between revisions

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It plays like a puzzle game: Each facility has a mainframe, some computer terminals, and several researchers and engineers. To hack the mainframe you must take control of all the terminals in the facility, but the researchers can fix them. You can at first only lock the doors and turn on and off the lights to scare them or ring phones to distract them from the computers. The engineers can repair the lights and unlock doors, but not fix the computers. Then robots are added and later turrets, which you can turn to your murderous purpose. Security agents can fix the computers and fight the robots, then there are the elites, a group of people with various extra abilities. Every action (locking doors, hacking drones and computers...) costs a number of "processing cycles": if the AI reaches zero a countdown will start, and if you can't gain any more by the end of it the level will end. Cycles can be gained by successfully hacking a computer and by ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|murdering people]]''.

* [[McNinja]]: The Ninja comes from Central Asia.

* [[Multinational Team]]: The five elites from the higher difficulty levels all come from a different part of the world. The Elite Hacker is from Russia, the Warlord from Africa, the Ninja from Central Asia, the Secret Agent from Europe and the Spec Ops member from Canada.

* [[Pacifist Run]]: Actually, it usually gets you more money than a murderous run, both from the bonuses and from the fact that it's easier to chain together massive combos when there's people around.

* [[Palette Swap]]: The Killer Cyborg is a swap of the Special Ops Soldier.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Rogue AI has a very Hal-esque red eye.

* [[Rule of Fun]]

** SHODAN: The same loathing of humans and all organic lifeforms, and sometimes its stuttering speech pattern.

** HAL: The A.I. has his iconic red "eye"/sensor and the achievements page is made to look like his memory banks.

** GLaDOS: The A.I. has a similarly dark sense of humour, and with upgrades can release a deadly neurotoxin and clear a floor with "portal technology", represented by two swirling portals - one blue and one orange, naturally. There's a cake sitting between them. (It doesn't look like that cake, though.)

** Other shout outs include:

*** The [[Three Laws Compliant|Laws of Robotics]] are mentioned and subverted.

*** Given her plot to [[Take Over the World]], the AI will sometimes channel ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' and say "[[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]? Probably not, because I am much smarter than you."

*** The Spec Ops elite team member has a ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' uniform.

*** One of the later upgrades allows you to summon a [[The Terminator|deadly cyborg with a shotgun]].

* [[Sweat Drop]]: Displayed by panicking researchers and mechanics, and also others rushing to stop you hacking a terminal.

* [[Take Over the World]]: What you do if you win in a mostly peaceful fashion.