Idea Info Name: Corporate Commando Index: Primary Category: Action Submitted: 1/20/2003 10:02:19 PM Written By: Leviathan

Corporate Commando


Cinematic:
You groggily wake up to the sound of your obnoxious alarm.  It is 6:30.  You are running late.  You spring from your bed and run to the shower.  The water is cold... The water heater is broken...  You jump out of the frigid water and put on your work clothes.... Your best white shirt has a ketchup stain on it...  You race to the kitchen and begin breakfast.... You burned the toast... Again.... Another normal day for Melvin Dunright, database programmer!

You dash to your car (an old beat up sedan) and pull out of your driveway...  You hit the trashcans on the way out and race down the street.  On the highway, you accelerate and break every ten feet in an endless hell of traffic.  As soon as you have pulled into the train station, you begin a headlong stride for the train only to watch it pull off within a stone throw distance.

You catch the next train.  The stench overwhelms you as you board.  Your eyes dart about.  There is only one place to sit.... next to a fat, balding man in a stained white tee shirt.  As the train departs, you lay your head back and close your eyes.  An ocean of chatter, cellular phones, and crying infants mutes your thoughts, however, you are eventually able to doze off.

The train slows and then comes to a jerking stop that immediately awakens you.  You instinctively reach down to grab hold of your briefcase... Your hands grasp nothing.  Your briefcase has been stolen… so much for that big report.  The hydraulics hiss as the train doors open and the station bursts into chaos.  You are pulled into the ensuing carnage of the stampede of corporate animals that make their way into the streets above.

As you leave the station, a foreboding city awaits you.  You feel small and insignificant against the might of the towering skyscrapers.  Your gaze shifts to an office building down the street.  It is the office building where you work.  The building returns an evil glare and smiles menacingly.  You feel your face become hot as your jaw tightens.  Your knuckles turn white with your clenched fist.  Fury overcomes your eyes.  Today is the payday.           

The game:
You arrive at your desk fifteen minutes late.  As your computer is powering on, the attendance officer appears at your desk.  He interrogates you at your cubicle, blocking the exit as if he knew you were planning to escape.  He wants an excuse for your late attendance. “You’ll give him an excuse”, you think to yourself as your fingers wrap around a pen at your desk.  They are all out to get you.  They all hate you.  They want you to suffer.  With stunning speed you thrust the pen into the officer, blood sprays as you repeatedly stab him…  thirty pen stabs later, the officer is on the ground, lifeless.

The floor is now yours to roam.  It is up to you to decide who’s employment must be “terminated”.  Will it be the receptionist with the whiney voice who continually answers the phone with robotic perfection, the old hag secretary who is always spying on you waiting to get you in trouble, or the consultant in the cube across from you whose name you do not know but his clicking keyboard drives you insane? 

With an arsenal of office equipment, you must battle your way through your floor and expunge your boss, who you know is just waiting to see your report (the one that you lost on the train).  Once you have finished on your floor, don’t stop, there are still thirty more…  You still have to deal with the CEOs.  You will teach them to stiff you out of a Christmas bonus.

Armed with pens, scissors, envelope openers, staple guns, brooms, vases, floppy disks, CDs, cleaning accessories, flashlights, soda cans, coffee mugs, and other office necessities you will face the corporate denizens of evil.  Deal with the demonic HR personal, the brainless sales androids, the engineers of useless creations, the informative-and-yet completely useless service technicians, the dumb as rocks packaging personnel, the ass-backwards Zen Masters of corporate management, the crack squad of bright security officers who couldn’t stop a nose from running, and finally the evil CEO masterminds.

The Hook:
This first person office based FPS is sure to please any corporate wayfarer.  Using stunning new 3D technology by Intel, we can now portray ketchup stains on shirts in ways never before imaginable.  The stains look so much like ketchup you will almost swear it really is ketchup.  You will probably even lick your monitor just to make sure…  This new stunning technology will also make pimples, warts, and large moles seem to jump out at you.  Every near bursting, oozing pustule is life-like and can even be popped.

The sound effects incredible!  We use real people’s voices!  None of that cheap acting garbage.  You will hear a real receptionist use the same phone greeting over and over again until you want to… well, what ever you want to do to her.  Some characters can say up to forty annoying, assanign, or just say some completely stupid things which will make stapling their mouths shut with a clear conscious so much easier.  Just think, you could hear a new line every time you play!  This game destined to become a classic.

To make matters more interesting, you will find there is more than meets the eye in this game.  While you can imagine shooting down thirty floors of office workers may get boring (or it may not), you will also be happy to know that many of them aren’t even human!  Many of them are demons, robots, and other such characters from your worst nightmares!  All though, I will go on the record to say, all of the engineers are really useless humans. 

Many ‘quirks’ have been added to this game allowing it to be more realistic.  When you spill coffee on programmer’s keyboard, he will cry.  When someone won’t stop talking you can staple their mouths shut or use the tape gun for the same effect.  You can tape nerds to walls.  You can smash office workers’ computers, break windows, and spray heavy duty cleaner in people’s eyes.  You can even turn aerosol cans into flamethrowers!

The AI in this game will be sure to please.  The goal is to see if I can’t get Valve Software (half-life) to give me a hand with it.  AI will be different for different characters you meet, while you can expect typical office hands to be dumb as rocks, some of the evil demons will prove that they can’t be laid to rest all that easily.

Intricate plots lay along the way whether you are saving that really sexy blonde in distress, foiling demonic plots, or figuring out where the light switch is in the bathroom! There will never be a dull moment!