History VideoGame / HunterTheReckoning

* ThoseWhoFightMonsters: The Waywards in the game of the same name. One can be saved. The other... can't.

* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: The final boss is a Lasombra Vampire. The Lasombra are a clan who specialize in turning darkness and shadows into physically controlled weapons and tendrils, and as a balance are particularly sensitive to bright light and sunlight. The Boss is in the top floor of it's hideout, a boarded up abandoned building that, three levels earlier, you entered during the day. The quick and easy way to defeat the vampire? Don't aim at him, instead aim at the boarded up windows behind him. Shatter the boards, the sun streams in, and he's toast.

** TonyJay is the first game's narrator.

* [[FiveTokenBand FourTokenBand]]

Tropes in the ''Hunter'' video games include:

** Esteban sports a BadassBeard and BadassLonghair in the first game.

** Genefex, the evil corporation in ''Redeemer'', will be instantly familiar to any fan of ''WerewolfTheApocalypse''. It is never explicitly said to be a Pentex subsidiary, but it almost doesn't have to.

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* DummiedOut: The mission which explains [[HowWeGotHere the Wayward's situations]] was only available to play on demo discs.

** [[BadassPreacher Father]] [[BadassSpaniard Esteban Cortez]] has an [[BadassLongcoat awesome leather trenchcoat]], and by the time of ''Redeemer'', is [[BadassGrandpa in his fifties.]]

''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' spawned three beat-'em-up video games for the XBox, {{PlayStation 2}}, and GameCube, which were published by Interplay and Vivendi and developed by High Voltage Software. All three games are multi-player hack-and-slashers in the spirit of the original ''Gauntlet'', and developed a modest fan following as excellent four-player party games.

Two years later, Ashcroft is mostly empty, although people are slowly returning to it. It's still a focus of dark power, though, and two Wayward Hunters go missing within the city limits. The original four hunters, after seeing the calls for help on Hunter.net, reunite and return to Ashcroft.

* GunsAkimbo: Kassandra's primary means of attack.

** Deuce is a former [[BadassBiker Hell's Angel]].

** [[BadassPreacher Father]] [[BadassSpaniard Estaban Cortez]] has an [[BadassLongcoat awesome leather trenchcoat]], and by the time of ''Redeemer'', is [[BadassGrandpa in his fifties.]]

** [[BadassPreacher Father]] Estaban Cortez has an [[BadassLongcoat awesome leather trenchcoat]], and by the time of ''Redeemer'', is [[BadassGrandpa in his fifties.]]

''HunterTheReckoning'' spawned three beat-'em-up video games for the XBox, {{PlayStation 2}}, and GameCube, which were published by Interplay and Vivendi and developed by High Voltage Software. All three games are multi-player hack-and-slashers in the spirit of the original ''Gauntlet'', and developed a modest fan following as excellent four-player party games.

* FanNickname: Often called ''Gauntlet: the Reckoning'' by fans of the original tabletop game, especially when it first came out, due to the play style. People were expecting something more akin to the style of VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption.

* CoolGuns: Kass's dual pistols are distinctly Desert Eagles.

* {{Expy}}: Each of the four original Hunters has roughly equivalent areas of specialization to the original four characters from ''Gauntlet''. Deuce is the Warrior (high health, moves slowly, entirely focused on doing physical damage), Sam is the Valkyrie (well-balanced character with defensive abilities), Kass is the Elf (the fastest character and almost entirely focused on ranged combat), and Estaban is the Wizard (all his combat potential's built around his Edges, to the point where a high-level Judge player won't really use his weapons that much).

* FridgeHorror: The hunters eventually agree to cooperate with the werewolves in ''Redeemer'', but only after you've plowed through a couple of dozen of them. If you're a fan of the original ''Werewolf'', this is the point where you realize you've probably just killed every Gaian werewolf in the surrounding ''state''.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: In the original game, Kass is dressed like she's on her way to a candy rave and Sam has mislaid an entire leg of her leather pants. Both get distinctly more sensible as they get older, and are fully covered up by the time of ''Redeemer''... just in time for a teenage Kaylie to begin a career of fighting off monsters while wearing an extremely low-cut leather minidress.

''HunterTheReckoning'' spawned three beat-'em-up video games for the XBox, {{PlayStation 2}}, and GameCube, which were published by Interplay and Vivendi and developed by High Voltage Software. All three games are multi-player hack-and-slashers in the spirit of the original ''Gauntlet'' games, and developed a modest fan following as excellent four-player party games.

The original game, ''Hunter: The Reckoning'', is set in the small town of Ashcroft, a town that was built around a penitentiary of the same name. For more than fifty years, the prison was run by a vampire named Cornelius as his own private playground and feeding pen. Cornelius's necromancy barely managed to bottle up the angry ghosts that haunted the prison grounds.

One day, the convicted murderer Nathaniel Arkady is executed at Ashcroft Penitentiary, and all hell breaks loose. The vengeful dead rise up all at once and attack everyone inside the prison. Four ordinary people abruptly become imbued, given great power from an unknown source, and have to fight their way out of the prison. They were able to seal the ghosts back up, and Ashcroft was quickly abandoned.

A short time thereafter, the prison is the site of an illegal rave, which draws in kids from all over the state, and that's enough to unleash the angry ghosts against the entirety of the town of Ashcroft. The four hunters - the Avenger, Spencer "Deuce" Wyatt, a biker; the Defender, Samantha Alexander, one of the cops who arrested Arkady; the Martyr, Kassandra Cheyung, a teenage raver and heir to a manufacturing fortune; and the Judge, Father Estaban Cortez, the priest who gave Arkady his last rites - return to Ashcroft to find it burning to the ground, and must rescue the surviving civilians while finishing off the ghosts of Ashcroft once and for all.

Two years later, Ashcroft is a ghost town, and people are slowly returning. It's still a focus of dark power, though, and two Wayward Hunters go missing within the city limits. The original four hunters, after seeing the calls for help on Hunter.net, reunite and return to Ashcroft.

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