The authors of science fiction have long been loved by computer games and virtual reality: anything can exist in the digital world, heroes do not limit the meager opportunities of the physical body, and the rules of the material world cease to work. However, the games that we are told about from the movie screens and book pages, with rare exceptions, are fraught with many dangers. And they kill almost as successfully as they have entertained. Otherwise, would they become decorations for stories, tickling spectator and reader nerves?
We share a dozen the most interesting games, invented not by developers, but by writers, screenwriters and directors.
"Labyrinth of Death"
Author: Sergey Lukyanenko
Where to look: Roman "Labyrinth Reflections"
Advantages: Welcome to the best virtual reality shooter! The Labyrinth of Death is a worthy successor of the legendary Doom. The player will have to free the metropolis captured by the aliens, and at his service fifty levels: from city basements to abandoned Disneyland.
You will have to fight both with generations of AI and other players. As a weapon, any improvised objects are allowed to use (cut the opponent with a sedge with a sheet of sedge – how do you like it, the Dum Guy?). And when you get tired of shelling the demons, you can drink beer in the local BFG-9000 restaurant, enjoying all the delights of complete immersion in the virtual.
What is the catch: If you spend too much time in the game, you risk falling into a diplomatic psychosis: you begin to consider the virtual world real. And if you also turned off the timer, after the set time of which will automatically throw you out of digital depths, your body may just die at the computer from hunger or thirst.
Sword Art Online
Author : Rack Kawahara
Where to look: Ranobe, anime and manga Sword Art Online
Advantages: The enchanting world of this mmorpg carries from the first moments: the gigantic flying fortress of Ainrade is not only breathtaking locations and dangerous raid bosses, but also magical landscapes. You can join one of the guilds, united with other players, or remain a single warrior. You can get a family and arrange a magical honeymoon for yourself – the avatars of the players coincide with their real appearance, and the charming girl will definitely not be a bearded troll here. A variety of skills will allow anyone to become – from a brilliant swordsman to a blacksmith or cook – and a helmet of virtual reality will ensure a full range of sensations.
What is the catch: Entering the game, you can no longer go out: you just won’t find the “Exit” button in the menu. Death in the virtual world will lead to death in reality, and any attempts to pull out the player by force (for example, having removed the helmet) will kill him. The only way to get rid of is to wait for someone to get to the last, hundredth, level of the fortress and defeat the final boss. Or do it yourself, but the idea is damn risky.
Oasis
Author: Ernest Klein
Where to look: The novel "First Player Get ready", the film adaptation of the Spielberg
Advantages: Oasis was created as a multi -user online game with complete immersion, but then it grew into a huge virtual universe, which included thousands of digital worlds: from Middle -earth and flat world to Azerot. The game was made by a fan of pop culture, so Oasis is a real paradise for geeks. Here they have fun, work, study, fight on a PVP-anrena, play in World of Warcraft , wandering around the star systems, freezing in arcade machines, communicate and fall in love with. Everyone will find a thing to their taste.
What is the catch: Perhaps the most popular lesson in Oasis is a hunt for an “Easter egg” hidden by the creator of the game. The one who is the first to find the egg will become a billionaire and the new owner of Oasis. Not only ordinary players, but also large corporations are eager to get such a prize, and they will not take risks: if you start making significant successes in this field, you can at one time become an object of hunting yourself.
Infinity (Space Fleet Mod)
Authors: Director Toby Haynes, screenwriters Charlie Brooker and William Bridges
Where to look: The series "Black Mirror", 4th season, 1st episode
Advantages: never dreamed of feeling like the main character of the universe Star Trek? Sit the spaces of the galaxy, open new worlds, feel free to go where the person’s leg did not step? Mod of the most popular game Infinity will give you this opportunity! Just provide your DNA, and the developer will recreate the exact copy of your personality in the virtual universe. You will explore the cosmos on board the Kallister starship and pull the drinks in the local bar. The variety of missions – from the pursuit of a dangerous criminal to the help of a collapsed shuttle – will not allow you to get bored.
What is the catch: If you woke up on board the “Callistera”, then you must have been boldly annoyed by the creator of the game. For this, he will mock your game copy in all possible ways: get ready to lose your mouth, nose and eyes or turn into a vile alien creature. There is nowhere to run from the simulation, you cannot resist the developer – eternal torture is provided.
Consolate the fact that you are only a digital copy of a real person who is now peacefully drinking coffee at work. True, you realize yourself no less real, so that it will not become easier.
"Only you can save humanity"
Author: Terry Pratchett
Where to look: The story of the same name
Advantages: At the time of the “release” of the game in 1992, she could boast of the most advanced graphics and a very good gameplay: the player was to defeat the space fleet of the evil alien race of the Skrr-iiii. According to the background, the aliens destroyed all the starships of earthlings except yours, and now you are the last hero. And the one who gets to the tenth level will fall into the list of glory. There is something to try for!
What is the catch: Having launched the game, one day you can not find a single enemy there. Only the black emptiness of the cosmos. It's just that computer aliens were tired of dying, so they concluded a peace treaty with one of the players to help them get out of the game and return to their own planet. By the way, if you were lucky to become a Skrr-iii escort, do not really rejoice: before the end of this honorary mission about a calm dream, you can forget. Having fallen asleep, you will open your eyes behind the starship’s helm to chat with the commander of aliens and protect them from the next batch of bloodthirsty players.
Brain Burst
Author : Rack Kawahara
Where to look: Ranobe, anime and manga Accel World
Advantages: Best fighting game with full immersion. And at the same time, the program to accelerate consciousness: in the seventeen minutes of the game in reality there will be only one second. The call can be abandoned by any player and at any time – the main thing is that he is on the network. The arena is created on the basis of the real world, so the detailing is excellent, and the combat avatar of each player is endowed with unique abilities. In addition, the program can be used not only for battle: supernatural speed will help in sports, study, and gambling.
What is the catch: Activation Brain Burst takes one point of acceleration from you. When you spend all points, the program will automatically delete. After that, you will not only lose the opportunity to accelerate, but also lose all the memories associated with the game. You can earn points only by defeating other players, and there is a constant war between users without the right to make a mistake. And if one of the rivals reveals your personality, wait for the real threats, blackmail and other troubles "in real life".
NIRVANA
Authors: Director Gabriele Salvatores, Scriptwriters Gabriele Salvatores, Pino Kakucci, Gloria Cinnamon
Where to look: The film of the same name
Advantages: The intellectual game from the legendary game designer Jimmy Dini distinguished delightfully realistic graphics (where there is modern interactive cinema!). The main character, the impressive gentleman Solo, was investigating in the futuristic decorations of the Chinese quarter. To survive and save the lady of the heart, he had to fight with Yakuza, police, Italian mafia and even hunters for organs.
What is the catch: Unfortunately, the game never reached the buyers: three days before the release, the Dini's computer was picked up by the virus, which endowed the protagonist with memory, personality and mind. Realizing that he is just a character, doomed to dance under someone else's pipe and die at the player's whim, Solo prayed to the creator to destroy the game. What Dini did – to the great displeasure of his employers.
"Royal Ball"
Authors: Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Where to look: novel "Digital, or Brevis Est"
Advantages: simulator "Games of Thrones" In picturesque fantasy setting: many hours of political battles that unfold on local assemblies, tickle nerves no worse than fights on swords. You can run around the quests by a simple knight, a mercenary, you can get confused by a steppe landowner, or you can climb to the very top and believe the fate of the whole game world-if, of course, you are a rather talented intrigue and are ready to devote all your free time, like a fourteen-year-old hero of the book Arsen Snow.
What is the catch: In the game “Royal Ball”, of course, there are donates, and in the hands of the game elite of the authorities there are such amounts that virtual rulers have to seriously take care of their safety in real life, otherwise there is a chance to finish their lives in the forest. And if you still start to stand out, a certain gaming company will pay attention to you, which will offer to participate in testing its new products. A lot of pleasant bonuses are attached to testing (like “codes” for endless money and attractiveness for girls working in the real world), but do not forget where free cheese usually beckons.
"Net"
Authors: Directors Stephen Lisberger and Joseph Kosinsky, screenwriters Stephen Lisberger, Edward Kitsis, Adam Khorovitz
Where to look: Franchise "Throne"
Advantages: Strictly speaking, this is not a game, but a virtual world where cereal programs live. But those who can "digitize" to get here will open a whole series of survival games. Gladiator battles, battles on the arenas, races on light cycles … All this is capable of enjoying excitement even in an visited gamer. No wonder the creators of the Globnar arena, on which in "Gravity Folls" The gladiators of the future are fighting, inspired by the world of "network" – magical and dangerous.
What is the catch: It is very easy to die in a battle with unfriendly programs, and since you run into the “Network” in your own body, albeit digitized, you will die there. In addition, you can open the portal to the input and exit only from the real world. If it closes before you leave the “network”, you risk getting stuck there forever.
Elder Tales
Author : Mamare Tono
Where to look: Ranobe, anime and manga Log https://love-gb-casino.co.uk/ Horizon
Advantages: Picturesque Mmorpg about the world of fantasy post -apocalypse, which the developers were inspired by the famous series The Elder Scrolls. Put on a mantle, jump on a horse and jump on abandoned megacities overgrown with trees and grass – there is its own unique romance. The game offers a wide selection of combat classes and a huge number of subclasses: to conduct reconnaissance, conjure, tank or treat allies – choose what role you are more like.
What is the catch: Elder Tales suffers from one ailment typical of Japanese MMORPG: Output problems. Once thirty thousand users fell into the game world and got stuck there without the opportunity to return. The death of them did not threaten them – all the players were transferred to Elder Tales not only by reason, but also by his body, and after death they were simply revived in the nearest temple – but there is still little pleasant. In addition, without the skills of the cook, even exquisite dishes remained tasteless for them, and from boredom the poor fellow had fun for killing each other.
You can recall many more curious games from fantastic universes. Other of them (for example, Oasis) are trying to recreate in reality, but these attempts are far far from book and screen originals. And although sometimes I want all these projects to exist in our present, “side effects” once again remind: some fantasies are better to remain fantasies.
And what do you think: one day it will be possible to create a similar game with a complete immersion, but completely without “side effects”? Share in the comments!