History VideoGame / Receiver

Let's clarify for a moment. In Receiver, you ''actually'' have a gun. It may have a safety you can toggle. It may have a hammer you can cock or uncock. It may have a slide you can pull, lock, and release. It may have a detachable magazine or a cylinder, and either way, it ''doesn't'' have a telepathic link to tell you how many bullets are in it. And, either way, reloading involves either removing the magazine or emptying the spent (and unspent!) shells out of the cylinder and refilling with individual loose bullets.

You, and your gun, have to navigate a procedurally-generated urban maze full of killbots to find the cassette tapes and learn what's really going on. [[NintendoHard Good luck.]]

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-->"Your crude world is not the true reality. Your physical body here is the shadow cast by your transcendent mind. We call this higher plane "Reality A", and your world of shadows "Reality B". [[spoiler: [[MindScrew If you are receiving this message in a fictional context, you are at an even deeper level - one that we cannot reach."]]]]

Let's clarify for a moment. In Receiver, you ''actually'' have a gun. It may have a safety you can toggle. It may have a hammer you can cock or uncock. It may have a slide you can pull, lock, and release. It may have a detachable magazine or a cylinder, and either way, it ''doesn't'' have a telepathic link to tell you how many bullets are in it. Either way, reloading involves either removing the magazine or the emptying the spent (and unspent!) shells out of the cylinder and refilling with individual loose bullets.

Let's clarify for a moment. In Receiver, you ''actually'' have a gun. It may have a safety. It may have a hammer, which can be cocked or uncocked. It may have slide lock release (in fact, it has a slide). It may have a detachable a magazine, which ''doesn't'' have a telepathic link to tell you how many bullets are in it. In this case, reloading involves actually taking the magazine out of the gun, loading individual loose bullets into the magazine, reinserting the magazine, and chambering a fresh round.

You, and your gun, have to navigate a procedurally-generated urban maze to find the cassette tapes and learn what's really going on. [[NintendoHard Good luck.]]

''Note:'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XyvgqXwZs The RC6 update]] in September 2012 added, first, a flashlight (notably ''neither'' {{Ten Second|Flashlight}} nor {{Infinite|Flashlight}} -- the batteries run dead after a few hours use), and second, two new guns: a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_10 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock Glock 17 pistol]] modified with a [[MoreDakka GSS fire-selector]].

Let's clarify for a moment. In Receiver, you ''actually'' have a gun. It may have a safety. It mayhave a hammer, which can be cocked or uncocked. It may have slide lock release (in fact, it has a slide). It may have a detachable a magazine, which ''doesn't'' have a telepathic link to tell you how many bullets are in it. In this case, reloading involves actually taking the magazine out of the gun, loading individual loose bullets into the magazine, reinserting the magazine, and chambering a fresh round.

Let's clarify for a moment. In Receiver, you ''actually'' have a gun. It has a safety. It has a hammer, which can be cocked or uncocked. It has a slide lock release (in fact, it has a slide). It has a magazine, which ''doesn't'' have a telepathic link to tell you how many bullets are in it. Reloading involves actually taking the magazine out of the gun, loading individual loose bullets into the magazine, reinserting the magazine, and chambering a fresh round.

''Note:'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XyvgqXwZs The RC6 update]] in September 2012 added, first, a flashlight (notably ''neither'' {{Ten Second|Flashlight}} nor {{Infinite|Flashlight}} -- the batteries run dead after a few hours use), and second, two new guns: a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_10 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock Glock 17 pistol]] modified with a [[MoreDakka fully automatic]] setting.

''Note:'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XyvgqXwZs The RC6 update]] in September 2012 added, first, a flashlight (notably ''neither'' {{Ten Second|Flashlight}} nor {{Infinite|Flashlight}} -- the batteries run dead after a few hours use), and second, two new guns: A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_10 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock Glock 17 pistol]] modified with a [[MoreDakka fully automatic]] setting.

''Note:'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XyvgqXwZs The RC6 update]] in September 2012 added, first, a flashlight (notably ''neither' {{Ten Second|Flashlight}} nor {{Infinite|Flashlight}}), and second, two new guns: A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_10 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock Glock 17 pistol]] modified with a [[MoreDakka fully automatic]] setting.

[[caption-width-right:321:Checking the chamber before loading.]]

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[[caption-width-right:320:Don't forget to disengage the safety.]]

* EverybodysDeadDave: The player character is the only one in the building to have survived [[spoiler:the Mindkill.]]

* EverybodysDeadDave: The player character is the only one in the building to have survived the Mindkill.

* MusicalSpoiler: The electronic soundtrack changes as you approach enemies.

* OneBulletClips: {{Averted|Trope}}, as previously mentioned.