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Line 2: [[File:XIII-game-001_4039.png\|frame]] {{quote\|''"[[Laser-Guided Amnesia\|I can't remember a thing...]]"''~~\|'''Protagonist/Steve Rowland''', ''XIII''}}~~ \|'''Protagonist/Steve Rowland''', ''XIII''}} You wake up on a deserted beach. You have no memory, no identification, and a pounding headache. Your only clues to who you are and why you're there are a blurry flashback, a key to a bank, and the number XIII tattooed on your neck. Line 8 ⟶ 9: Within about two minute, your lifeguard rescuer is shot to pieces. You discover an incredible proficiency with weapons and, after wiping out about a dozen [[Mooks]], proceed to go about discovering who you are. Unfortunately, as you appear to be a long-dead Army Ranger with a history of heinous crimes and a wife who is a secret spy and who may have betrayed you, fighting for the side of good is no easy task. Especially not with multiple armies of baddies chasing you every step of the way. Notable largely for its atmospheric [[Cel Shading]] - ''[['''XIII]]''''' was originally a Belgian comic book (by writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance), running from 1984 onwards. It keeps the ''bande dessinée'' style -- cutscenes are often divided into 'panels,' footsteps make visible 'tap tap tap's on the screen, people plummeting off cliffs leave a long 'AAAAAAAH!' trailing behind them, and devastating combat gets alternate camera angles through inset panels. Also in general a tightly plotted game, though a bit goofy at times. {{tropelist}} * [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] : The XX Conspiracy Leaders are all capable of taking an inhuman amount of bullets before dying. General Standwell and The Mongoose in particular verge into [[That One Boss]] territory, due to being able to cut you to pieces in seconds while requiring several clips of bullets to die themselves. Unfortunately, this does ''not'' apply to your unarmed, easily killed ally General Carrington (see [[Escort Mission]] below). ** General Carrington (when not unarmed) is a bit of a badass in cutscenes, however. Line 53: [[Category:Video Game]] [[Category:Video Games of the 2000s]] [[Category:PlayStation 2]] [[Category:First-Person Shooter]] [[Category:Xbox]] [[Category:Nintendo Gamecube]] [[Category:Microsoft Windows]] [[Category:Mac OS]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]