Game Idea- Assignment 6

11Jul07

You wake up in a hospital, hazy and slightly delirious. You don’t remember hurting yourself or getting hurt. How did you get here? The story begins here with the player in a first person perspective of a patient in a hospital. You can look around and explore the room. You can look in a mirror in the room and see yourself as a petite, busty, red-haired girl. You are in a hospital gown and your chart says your name is Rachel, age 22. You can collect inventory in the game; there will be several types such as information and weapons. You must first find clothes to wear. Look in the closet to find a mini-skirt, black boots, and a band t-shirt. You hear your stomach growl and comment to yourself that you must be hungry. You head out of your room to go find food and explore. Mysteriously, you see no doctors or nurses and it is eerily quiet—all you hear are the sounds of machines that go ping. You look into the other rooms to see people sleeping. You hear someone coming around a corner with a cart. It’s a nurse, but her mouth is sewn shut and her hands look like they’ve been cut off.

 She’s pushing the cart with her bloody stumps. You continue to encounter wild body oddities, but they all ignore you while you make your way around to find food. Using an elevator, you get to the cafeteria. Cut-scene with elevator music and the doors opening to green and red lights, fog and a room with tubes, power generators, and fans everywhere. In the center of the room, you see a giant beast like man covered in scars wearing a doctor’s mask and gloves. He is holding a woman’s leg and has a pile of body parts on the tables around him. He is Frankenstein’s monster and he is building his perfect match. You were supposed to be the head of his perfect bride, that’s why you were in a semi-coma. Discovering this information in the games actually is progressive. You find maps, instructions, and diagrams throughout the game that describe how and why you got there. All the other patients are being used for body parts and experiments. Once he sees you, he realizes he must get you away from him and his work. He wants to capture you and put you back in a coma to build his woman later with your head. To get you to leave, he starts throwing body parts at you. You can grab a chainsaw and chop them up to defend yourself. He goes around to a storage unit by the kitchen with hundreds of bodies hanging vertically that have been pieced together from other bodies. He flips a switch and they all come to life to do his bidding. He points to you, runs off, and the real game gets going.

 You have to kill the monsters, find Frankenstein’s monster, and stop him before he gets you. He has set traps throughout the hospital to try and catch you. You must figure out the mechanical traps and escape to reach him. All the while, you see cut-scenes of him building the perfect bride, getting closer and closer to just missing your head. You find out where he is- the nursery wing- and you have to make your way there. Each wing you go through you encounter different monsters: baby monsters, crippled monsters, decapitated monsters, bald cancer monsters, and more. As you find more information and collect weapons, you realize that he plans to try and procreate with his new wife and create a race of patchwork freaks. You find out that your character used to be in medical school and ended up becoming a stripper to pay for school. Frankenstein’s monster was prowling strip club to find girls for his experiment.

 The game resolves with you finding the monster, shooting explosives down his gut with a make shift cannon, and then watching him explode into pieces. You look at the body he has made and touch it. Suddenly, you get a montage of lives that flash before you-the lives of all the different girls he used to make the body. The game ends with you burning down the hospital to the ground and promising to yourself to go back to school.

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