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{{quote| ''"Get Ready to Rock!"''}}
 
Long ago, Zeus and the other Greek gods ruled over Greece from Mount Olympus. After the Roman invasion, the servants of Zeus were [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|sealed away]] for good.
 
Present: The [[Badass Normal]] Willbert Rockwell ([[Title Drop|Will Rock for short]]) is visiting Greece with his archeologist girlfriend Emma and her father when they got kidnapped by the [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|ORA]] (Olympian Restoration Army), a fanatical movement whose members want to restore the old gods and force the two archeologists to break the seal to Zeus' prison. The god and his [[Legions of Hell|army of monsters]] are freed, and the ORA bring Will's fiancée to Zeus in order to offer her as a bride and kill her father.
 
With the help of Prometheus and with a lot of guns, Will must make his way through armies of monsters, weirdoes and beasts in order to stop Zeus before he conquers the world.
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The game itself is not really well known, but has often been compared to [[Serious Sam|the ''Serious Sam'' series]].
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This video game provides examples of:
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Some of your weapons shoot [[Arrows Onon Fire]], acid and [[Taken for Granite|petrifying gas]].
** The Cycolps enemies will eat some earth and spit fiery stones at you.
* [[Armor of Invincibility]]: The Immortality Titan Power makes you unkillable for 30 seconds.
* [[Asteroids Monster]]: If you kill a Minotaur, he will split into two Blood Minotaurs.
* [[Automatic Crossbow]]: It also serves as [[Sniper Rifle]] and [[Kill It Withwith Fire]].
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Special Guns ([[Kill It Withwith Fire|Sniper Crossbow]], Acid, [[Taken for Granite|Medusa]] and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Atomic Gun]] are undeniably cool, but they have low ammo. If used at short range, they can damage you as well.
** The sniper crossbow in particular does a ton of damage, but has the problem of being a slow, precision weapon in a game where how many enemies you can kill every second translates directly into how long you can hope to survive.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: The protagonist is called '''Will Rock'''!
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* [[Badass Normal]]: Will Rock himself.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Will does many in game.
{{quote| '''Will''':"I'll make you shit your diapers!"}}
* [[BFG]]: The Fireball Thrower, the [[More Dakka|Minigun]] and the [[Nuke 'Em|Atomic Gun]].
* [[Big Bad]]: Zeus
* [[Blatant Item Placement]]
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* [[Check Point]]
* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Averted. There's a reason why enemies tend to storm you in large packs....
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]
* [[Cool Guns]]: Many of the previously mentioned "special guns".
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Will.
* [[Deadly Lunge]]: Some of the [[Dem Bones|skeletons]] will jump at you in an attempedattempted kamikaze assault.
* [[Degraded Boss]]: The Cyclops. It starts as a Powerful Boss and ends up beignbeing a [[Giant Mook]] in the next level. Also [[Playing Withwith Fire|Hephaestus]]
* [[Dem Bones]]: Some of them were Centaurs.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Yes, you'll get the chance to ''Nuke'' Zeus to oblivion!
* [[Emergency Weapon]]: Your pistol and a [[Improbable Weapon User|Shovel]]. Said shovel can easlyeasily one-shot many enemies.. if you get close enough. And the pistol has unlimited ammo and shoots as fast as you can click, which makes it quite practical against low-level enemies.
* [[Everything Fades]]
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: Why they're scattered around old Greek ruins [[Fridge Logic|is still a mystery.]].
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* [[Freeze Ray]]: The Medusa Gun, only with stone.
* [[Gatling Good]]: The Machinegun is weak, but can fire 1,000 bullets non-stop. The Minigun is limited but more powerful.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: okOkay, you could easlyeasily see Medusa coming as a boss the first time (since the whole area is named Medusa's Lair). However, her second unexpected appereanceappearance out of thin air on Mount Olympus is like this
* [[God Is Evil]]: Zeus.
* [[Golem|Living Statues]]: Some of them shoot lasers at you, while others will stand up and toss fiery disks and huge stones at you.
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Every single enemy with a weapon, and not just throwing daggers, tridents, spears and arrows, but also [[Beyond the Impossible|battle axes and morningstars]]!
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Will is largely guilty of this in game.
{{quote| '''Will''' (after killing a Minotaur):" Bullseye!"<br />
'''Will''' (facing a pack of lions and tigers):" That's a lot of Pussy!" }}
* [[Jerkass God]]: Again, Zeus.
* [[Large Ham]]: Prometheus. Full stop.
{{quote| '''Prometheus:''' "TITAN DAMAGE!!"}}
* [[Lead the Target]]: Unusually for an FPS, ''the monsters'' get quite good at it on the hardest difficulty level. The usually life-saving strafing ''will'' get you killed if you move in a straight line.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Part of the [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|Underworld of Tartarus]] and the inside of Mount Olympus.
* [[A Load of Bull]]: Minotaurs are common mooks.
* [[Locked Door]]: This occurs often, and you have to find the right key or kill a determined number of monsters.
{{quote| '''Prometheus:''' "[[Most Annoying Sound|Find the Key!]]".}}
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Using the Machinegun or the Acid Gun on enemies implies this, but it's not shown.
* [[Medusa]]: She appears twice as a boss. [[That One Boss]]...
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* [[Mythology Upgrade]]: Since when did Minotaurs split in two when hit and Medusa shot homing fireballs out of her eyes?
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]
* [[Nuke 'Em]]: The Atomic Gun literally ''melt enemies to ashes!''
* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]: Fast-moving monsters armed with tridents.
{{quote| '''Will:''' "Sooo... which one of your parents was a horse?"}}
* [[Our Gods Are Greater]]: More in the physical sense of the word with Zeus, who's simply gargantuan.
* [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]: Zeus.
* [[Oxygen Meter]]: When you go underwater.
* [[Panthera Awesome]]: Mocked by Will.
{{quote| '''Will:''' "Nine lives my ass!"}}
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Will's [[Distressed Damsel in Distress|girlfriend]]'s father was a simple archeologist, but when the ORA took her away as sacrifice, he stood up and started gunning them down. Sadly, he got [[Killed Off for Real]].
* [[Power -Up]]: you can use the gold you find around to purchase the Powers of the Titans at a Titan Altar. You can get [[Armor of Invincibility|Immortality]], [[Bullet Time|Titan Motion]] and [[Quad Damage|Titan Damage]].
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Of the ''Exploding'' type.
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Destroy some statues in order to gain gold.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Zeus, of course..
* [[Shout -Out]]: many.
{{quote| '''Will''' (after killngkilling a centaur):" Give my regards to [[Mister Ed]]!"}}
** Besides, the Cyclops are based on the one that appears in [[Harryhausen Movie|Sindbad]].
* [[Short -Range Shotgun]]: Averted, the Shotgun actually has an exquisite range.
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Played straight, it's one of the [[Boring but Practical|best weapons]].
* [[Spikes of Doom]]: Usually placed in pits.
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* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: The Atomic Gun, because it's hard to find ammo for it.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: the [[Ugly Cute]] Eros. They're also quite disturbing, since they [[Dead Baby Comedy|literally cry like babies]].
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: an interesting variation: Prometheus says this if you get killed.
 
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