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Learning that everything you've played up to the final part of the game, where you died, was a simulation to prepare you for humanity's last stand. During the game you had all those visual clues and visions telling you about the truth, even your HUD display dissapears when you wake up.
Also, you live some parts that you've already seen but since Time Travel is part of the scenario, you live them again from a different perspective. Awesome game!
One of the best, if not, THE best scenario I've ever seen!
Wow, and here I assumed I'd be the only one that though of Breakdown when they saw this thread. I really liked the actual ending to the game, where it's basically left at a huge cliffhanger, but still manages to make you feel like you accomplished something instead of going "wtf, this is the end?" like many other first person action games did that year.
I would definately have to go with Breakdown having one of the cooler end game twists, also a good reason to want to beat the hell out of the 'last' boss. Long spoiler ahead.
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When you get your ass knocked out by the Solus, almost as if you are paralyzed, and Alex starts to try and beat him down, seeing what he does to her, and what her actions are afterwards nearly caused me to lose it, I think.
Then when you see the nuke fall in from above, you think that it's the end...but then BAM...reawaken in the future with a new goal...get stronger, go back, and kick some ass, and pretty much connects on how Alex knows you from the beginning, and why she thought you were so weak.
The scene when you are injected with the perfect T'ellengan(sp?) cells, jumping up through the grate and just going to down is still one of my most favorite parts to any game I've played.
All in all, being able to choose whether or not to stay in your world (bad ending?) and going into Alex's world to save hers (good ending) was quite well done as well.
All in all, this game DESERVES a sequel. Shame it had to be over shadowed by games like Half Life 2 and Halo. Good FPS games in their own right, but do not come CLOSE to the way Breakdown put you in the game.
Yeah, there's never been a first person game that has reached, or probably ever will reach, the immersiveness of Breakdown. It's quite remarkable that they were able to make the game so cinimatic while always keeping your view from the character's eyes. The fact that it was able to make a first person action game entertaining without an emphesis on guns alone was a feat.
Can anyone think of a first person action game with a better ending than Breakdown's? It seems like lately, all you hear about are FPS games with terrible endings and pointless cliffhangers...now I'm having a hard time thinking of ANY that were really that decent.
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