History VideoGame / Overload

* BulletHell: The auot-ops love to surround you and shower you with projectiles. Evading their fire is mandatory to survive.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Alex Warden admired Gabriel Kantor very much for his scientific brilliance and visionary ideas. After TheReveal, probably not so much.]]

* PurpleIsPowerful: The Thunderbolt and the Lancer have purple-colored bolts and beams. They are the two most powerful weapons in your arsenal.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Gabriel Kantor is not only the CEO of ''Juno Offworld'']], he's also an ambitious and brilliant scientist who mistreat his workers.]]

* ShoutOut:
** Some of the audio logs mention PTMC, the [[MegaCorp mega corporation]] of ''Descent'', by name.
** The initial release used the afterburner sound from ''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows'' to indicate the ''Iberia'' approaching an outpost.

** The initial release used the afterburner sound from ''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows'' to indicated the ''Iberia'' approaching an outpost.
* SniperRifle: The Driller, a long range weapon with fairly high accuracy.

* ShoutOut: Some of the audio logs mention PTMC, the [[MegaCorp mega corporation]] of ''Descent'', by name.

* AssimilationPlot: Towards the end, [[spoiler:it turns out Kantor's paranoia and desire to declare an empty frontier independent of his superiors was influence from an alien AI, which has been slowly influencing him.]] Once through [[spoiler:the teleportation gate he's constructed, Kantor is subsumed bit by bit, until he becomes the AI itself - and the AI is part of three, who crush and absorb every race and civilization they come across - by the time they've found humanity, they claim the number is in the trillions. They try to drain the player's morale by claiming they've already assimilated the Solar System - in reality, they've only gotten to Ymirus.]]

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Downplayed. An additional "low armor" message will appear if the player ship's armor drops below 50, but it otherwise performs as per normal until all its armor is depleted.

* MechaMooks: Basically all enemies are robots.

* ApocalypticLog: There are audio logs that can be found throughout the levels, acting as diaries for the human workers on the facility before the auto-ops turned hostile and attacked them.
* AssimilationPlot : Pretty much what's driving the story here, though you only find out the entirety of what happened right before the penultimate level.

* LateToTheTragedy: The facilities you visit have already been attacked by hostile auto-ops, who have likely killed the majority of the human workers.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Played with. It's outright stated in the opening cutscene that it takes two years to get to Saturn from the inner planets, and yet has you responding to a distress signal that was only sent a few days ago. This serves as the second clue that [[spoiler:you weren't sent from the inner planets]].

* SelfDestructMechanism: With a countdown.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: The game features a ''smash attack'' that can be used to attack enemies by ramming them. It is even stronger when you are invincible.

!!''Overload'' provides examples of:

* InsaneTrollLogic: The shield generators that usually unlock secret doors or open force fields when destroyed [[spoiler:actually '''lock''' a secret door in level 11, more precisely the entrance to the fourth secret level, which is unlocked by default.]]