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* AwesomeMcCoolname: The pirate Octad (triad) leader Napoleon Hwong in Nuclear Strike's second mission.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}: The setting of the fourth mission in ''Soviet Strike.'' It's basically a WretchedHive set up by a MadScientist for every loser in the Soviet bloc to use as a play pen. Things go FromBadToWorse when [[DarkActionGirl Villa]] shows up to raid the reactor.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=PlayStation=] versions. To give an idea, one mission takes place in Chernobyl where you have to kill a Romanian Gulag dominatrix (yes, you read that right) who had grown to become a ruling guerrilla leader in charge of a nation, apparently powerful enough to make a play for the Chernobyl reactor to use the nuclear materials to launch rockets over Europe. Then there's ThePlan detailed below.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=PlayStation=] versions. To give an idea, one mission takes place in Chernobyl where you have to kill a Romanian Gulag dominatrix (yes, you read that right) who had grown to become a ruling guerrilla leader in charge of a nation, apparently powerful enough to make a play for the Chernobyl reactor to use the nuclear materials to launch rockets over Europe. Then there's ThePlan detailed below.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}: UsefulNotes/: The setting of the fourth mission in ''Soviet Strike.Strike is inspired by Chernobyl.'' It's basically a WretchedHive set up by a MadScientist for every loser in the Soviet bloc to use as a play pen. Things go FromBadToWorse when [[DarkActionGirl Villa]] shows up to raid the reactor.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=PlayStation=] versions. To give an idea, one mission takes place inChernobyl Transylvania (but inspired by Chernobyl) where you have to kill a Romanian Gulag dominatrix (yes, you read that right) who had grown to become a ruling guerrilla leader in charge of a nation, rogue army commander, apparently powerful enough to make a play for the Chernobyl reactor to use the nuclear materials to launch rockets over Europe. Then there's ThePlan detailed below.Europe.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadowman in ''Soviet Strike''. Allegedly one Uri Vatsisnov, fictional former head of the KGB, though this is not 100% confirmed. The codename for a mysterious individual attempting to stage a ''coup'' in post-Cold War Russia. He hacks into your site and taunts you throughout the game. He seemingly dies in the first mission but it's quickly revealed he's alive and behind the bad guys in all subsequent missions. He is never seen except in infra-red, and his voice is electronically muffled.
** [[spoiler: After the end credits, it transpires that ''STRIKE'' are the true masterminds behind the coup, or at least their bosses, and even allude to killing Trotsky because he didn't play ball, making them a GovernmentConspiracy going back decades. The ''coup'' was apparently to frighten then-President Yeltsin into obedience.]]
*** [[spoiler: Also, there is a strong possibility that the ''real'' Shadowman is none other than your co-pilot Nick Arnold, the Shadowman's convenient hostage for much of the game, maybe or not working on orders of the aforementioned [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] Hack once thinks that Shadowman must be a STRIKE member to be able to hack into their systems; his voice, though muffled, is similar to Nick's in later missions, and he has Nick's sense of humour and uses many of his phrases (eg. "viking funeral"). Not only is he Shadowman's hostage for most of the game, in the final levels Nick is seemingly with all the time, for no obvious reason as he has no apparent value as a captive.]]
** [[spoiler: After the end credits, it transpires that ''STRIKE'' are the true masterminds behind the coup, or at least their bosses, and even allude to killing Trotsky because he didn't play ball, making them a GovernmentConspiracy going back decades. The ''coup'' was apparently to frighten then-President Yeltsin into obedience.]]
*** [[spoiler: Also, there is a strong possibility that the ''real'' Shadowman is none other than your co-pilot Nick Arnold, the Shadowman's convenient hostage for much of the game, maybe or not working on orders of the aforementioned [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] Hack once thinks that Shadowman must be a STRIKE member to be able to hack into their systems; his voice, though muffled, is similar to Nick's in later missions, and he has Nick's sense of humour and uses many of his phrases (eg. "viking funeral"). Not only is he Shadowman's hostage for most of the game, in the final levels Nick is seemingly with all the time, for no obvious reason as he has no apparent value as a captive.]]
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** Soviet Strike had a shadowy character only known as the "Security Czar" running STRIKE, who at the end threatens Yeltsin into allowing STRIKE to act freely within Russia. In Nuclear Strike this sinister conspiracy overtone is gone, along with the entire character of Security Czar. Amad and Ivan Uralia are also gone in Nuclear Strike despite being STRIKE members.
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* ''Soviet Strike'', the first of two PS1 games where the newly-formed STRIKE organisation must take down a mysterious Russian terrorist called "The Shadowman" and his plans to bring back the glory of Soviet Russia through violence. That, or a elaborate {{plan}} by STRIKE to [[WhatTheHellHero convince Boris Yeltsin of their need for a foothold in Russia.]]
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*NonIndicativeName: ''Jungle Strike'' starts with a mission in a city, and ''Urban Strike'' starts with a mission in a jungle.
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**Jungle Strike begins and ends in a combat mission over Washington DC.
**The beginning of Soviet Strike and the very end of Nuclear Strike has Hack saying the same thing:
**Jungle Strike begins and ends in a combat mission over Washington DC.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Jungle Strike's climactic mission is set in the dense Amazon, blowing up secret underground bases and fighting enemy [[SoLastSeason Apache helicopters]] until you eventually capture the BigBadDuumvirate, and take them back to Washington DC [[ArtisticLicenseLaw to stand trial at the Supreme Court]]... and then the remains of the Drug Lord's army invade DC and bust them out, forcing you to evacuate the president, wipe out the enemy forces, and kill the two [[TheEndOrIsIt once and for all]].
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* BadBoss: Whenever his deputy has the temerity to question him, General Kilbaba gives him a good slap in the face.
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* KickTheDog: Or in General Kilbaba's case, Slap the Deputy.
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--> Gen. Earle: "We measure our successes by the wars that ''didn't happen''!"
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The final level of Urban Strike takes place inside H.R. Malone's enormous underground base underneath Las Vegas, which is not only big enough to fly a helicopter around in but has a floor space that could be measured in square miles. It's basically a standard level map that happens to be set underground, with lots of empty space between targets/objectives.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The final level of Urban Strike takes place inside H.R. Malone's enormous underground base underneath beneath Las Vegas, which is not only big enough to fly a helicopter around in but has a floor space that could be measured in square miles. It's basically a standard level map that happens to be set underground, with lots of empty space between targets/objectives.
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* ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'', set at the end of the Gulf War where the player must thwart the Saddam Hussein-a-like General Killbaba.
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* ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'', set at the end of the Gulf War where the player must thwart the Saddam Hussein-a-like General Killbaba.Kilbaba.
* BadBoss: Whenever his deputy has the temerity to question him, General Kilbaba gives him a good slap in the face.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The final level of Urban Strike takes place inside H.R. Malone's enormous underground base underneath Las Vegas, which is not only big enough to fly a helicopter around in but has a floor space that could be measured in square miles. It's basically a standard level map that happens to be set underground, with lots of empty space between targets/objectives.
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* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Your chopper can't change altitude, so you have to fly around two story buildings or mountains. Urban Strike has you flying over the fog of San Fransisco, with the taller buildings and Golden Gate Bridge jutting above it. The Playstation games alter this slightly, having your helicopter constantly flying at a given altitude above the ground. You'll be shown flying up over hills and small buildings, but you still have to fly around larger geographic features and structures.
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* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Your chopper can't change altitude, so you have to fly around two story buildings or mountains. Urban Strike has you flying over the fog of San Fransisco, Francisco, with the taller buildings and Golden Gate Bridge jutting above it. The Playstation games alter this slightly, having your helicopter constantly flying at a given altitude above the ground. You'll be shown flying up over hills and small buildings, but you still have to fly around larger geographic features and structures.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In Desert Strike, General Kilbaba (who invades a small but wealthy Arab emirate) is basically Saddam Hussein and the camouflage-wearing man giving the mission briefings resembles General "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf. In Jungle Strike, Carlos Ortega is a very powerful South American drug lord, like Pablo Escobar.
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* OneManArmy: Or one-helicopter army. Lampshaded during the first game's intro sequence when the newsreader says the Special Forces' top pilot is being sent to deal with the dicatator because the President doesn't want to risk an all-out air strike.
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* BadassBoast: The motto for STRIKE.
--> Gen. Earle: "We measure our successes by the wars that ''didn't happen''!"
--> Gen. Earle: "We measure our successes by the wars that ''didn't happen''!"
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* BookEnds: The beginning of Soviet Strike and the very end of Nuclear Strike has Hack saying the same thing:
--> Hack: "Synchronicity threshold crossed at 0100 hours. General, there's some bad business going on."
--> Hack: "Synchronicity threshold crossed at 0100 hours. General, there's some bad business going on."
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* BoxedCrook: Hack. He's originally a PlayfulHacker that's jailed for his crimes. He was recruited by STRIKE so that he could use his skills for good.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}: The setting of the fourth mission in ''Soviet Strike.'' It's basically a WretchedHive set up by a MadScientist for every loser in the Soviet bloc to use as a play pen. Things go FromBadToWorse when [[DarkActionGirl Villa]] shows up to raid the reactor.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The sheer amount of vehicles you can commandeer in Nuclear Strike are mind-boggling. However, most of them have the debilitating quirk of not being able to pick up ammo, fuel, or even plot-important [=NPCs=], thereby making them very useless aside from being a glorified moving weapons platform. That said, if you do not need to pick up any [=NPCs=] and you just need to lay waste to everything in the shortest amount of time, these vehicles suddenly become very, very practical.
* DecoyProtagonist: A variation occurs in Nuclear Strike. Despite being the cover chopper, the Super Apache is only playable in the first half of the first map before needing to be brought down due to smoke particulates in the air. The second map has you playing the Super ''Sea'' Apache instead. In every map afterwards, the Super Apache does not make any appearance whatsoever.
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*** No, no matter what engineering procedure is used, the A-10 cannot be made into a VTOL.
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* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the second half of the first map of Nuclear Strike, you are told that the UH-1 Huey that you will be commandeering does not have SMART Armor and cannot use repair kits to repair the damages. In fact, you can still do so without any problems.
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** StatusBuff: What the Alert Zones does, basically. Most of the time, it also acts as sort of a BeefGate in earlier games to keep you from [[SequenceBreaking finishing later missions first]].
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The Strike Series were a series of five games from ElectronicArts, where the player took control of an Apache gunship a combat helicopter to undertake several missions for the US government (and later on a mercenary organisation known as STRIKE), usually attempting to thwart the plans and lives of various megalomaniacal dictators or warlords threatening the world's safety.
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** ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'' play this mildly, with the chopper carrying one extra missile and 22 more rockets but offset this by reducing the gun's capacity by 200 rounds.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
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** ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'' play plays this mildly, with the chopper carrying one extra missile and 22 missile, 4 more rockets but offset this by reducing and 500 more cannon rounds when compared to actual armament for the gun's capacity by 200 rounds.Comanche. ''Urban Strike'' features the fictional Mohican next-generation combat helicopter with exactly the same loadout.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays the trope completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays the trope completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
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* JustPlaneWrong: The final mission of ''Desert Strike'' features C-5 Galaxy cargo plane as a "nuclear bomber".
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* JustPlaneWrong: The final mission of ''Desert Strike'' features a C-5 Galaxy cargo plane as a "nuclear bomber".
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist combi van that's the first enemy you're likely to see in the second game is ripped right out of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
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* MagicPlasticSurgery: Carlos Ortega survives the final mission in ''Jungle Strike'' and changes his identity to that of H.R. Malone for ''Urban Strike''.
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The StrikeSeries Strike Series were a series of five games from ElectronicArts, where the player took control of an Apache gunship to undertake several missions for the US government (and later on a mercenary organisation known as STRIKE), usually attempting to thwart the plans and lives of various megalomaniacal dictators or warlords threatening the world's safety.
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* NonstandardGameOver: Fail an objective and you'll be called back to base to get shouted at by a pixelly Stormin' Norman. In the [=PlayStation=] games, you can even go rogue and have your allies hunt you down if you refuse to return when ordered. Eventually they'll push the self-destruct button for, of all things, refueling too many times after you are recalled.
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* NonstandardGameOver: NonStandardGameOver: Fail an objective and you'll be called back to base to get shouted at by a pixelly Stormin' Norman. In the [=PlayStation=] games, you can even go rogue and have your allies hunt you down if you refuse to return when ordered. Eventually they'll push the self-destruct button for, of all things, refueling too many times after you are recalled.
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* DivorcedInstallment: A trailer for ''Future Strike'' was released, but the final product became ''VideoGame/FutureCopLAPD''.
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* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: An interesting take on this happens during Soviet Strike with Amad's family: Delilah (The Fox), Nimrud (The Chicken), and Bessus (The Grain. If Nimrud's forces cross paths with either of the others, the two groups will fight. You also have to make sure they fight the right enemy units or else they will be obliterated.
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* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: An interesting take on this happens during Soviet Strike with Amad's family: Delilah (The Fox), Nimrud (The Chicken), and Bessus (The Grain.Grain). If Nimrud's forces cross paths with either of the others, the two groups will fight. You also have to make sure they fight the right enemy units or else they will be obliterated.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Older audiences might know Colonel Lemonde as Roy Boone in White Lightning, John Cooper in The Rockford Files, or Matthew Blaisdel in Dynasty.◦ While younger ones might be surprised that their commanding officer is the security chief in The Secret World of Alex Mack, which was airing the same time as the game's release.
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* BlackHelicopter: A video used for TV commercial for the ''Soviet Strike'' showed a maintenance crew pointedly spray painting over all official markings on an Apache helicopter while a broadcast in the background kept saying the government will take no action.
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* BlackHelicopter: A video used for TV commercial for the ''Soviet Strike'' showed a maintenance crew pointedly spray painting over all official markings on an Apache helicopter while a broadcast in the background kept saying the government will not take action.
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* BlackHelicopter: A video used for TV commercial for the ''Soviet Strike'' showed a maintenance crew pointedly spray painting over all official markings on an Apache helicopter while a broadcast in the background kept saying the government will not take no action.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Urban Strike was made in 1994 and takes place in 2001.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Urban Strike was made in 1994 and takes place in 2001.
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* DivorcedInstallment: A trailer for ''Future Strike'' was released, but the final product became ''FutureCopLAPD''.
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The StrikeSeries were a series of five games from ElectronicArts, where the player took control of an Apache gunship to undertake several missions for the US government (and later on a mercernary mercenary organisation known as STRIKE), usually attempting to thwart the plans and lives of various megalomaniacal dictators or warlords threatening the world's safety.
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* GulfWar: UsefulNotes/GulfWar: The first game alludes to this.
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* KarmicDeath: At the end of the final level in ''Nuclear Strike'', [[spoiler: the BigBad LeMonde is killed in an airstrike sponsored by STRIKE.]]
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* Dysfunctional Family: Amad's family in Soviet Strike is not the most stable of families. In fact, they'll blindly murder each other with their individual units out of pure rage if they're paired against the one they hate (Though it's really uncle Nimrud that's the problem, Bessus and Delilah won't fight with each other).
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[[caption-width-right:250:GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!]]
The StrikeSeries were a series of five games from ElectronicArts, where the player took control of an Apache gunship to undertake several missions for the US government (and later on a mercernary organisation known as STRIKE), usually attempting to thwart the plans and lives of various megalomaniacal dictators or warlords threatening the world's safety.
The games were played from an [[IsometricProjection isometric perspective]], and as such were more tactical than an out and out shooting game, requiring precision in 360 degrees.
The series included:
* ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'', set at the end of the Gulf War where the player must thwart the Saddam Hussein-a-like General Killbaba.
* ''Jungle Strike'', which dealt with the son of Killbaba making negotiations with the notoriously dangerous Colombian drug dealer Carlos Ortega in South America after his initial assassination attempts on the President of the United States.
* ''Urban Strike'', whose main enemy is H.R. Malone, an insidious politician who takes control of the media and plans to convert the USA into his personal armed fortress.
* ''Soviet Strike'', the first of two PS1 games where the newly-formed STRIKE organisation must take down a mysterious Russian terrorist called "The Shadowman" and his plans to bring back the glory of Soviet Russia through violence. That, or a elaborate {{plan}} by STRIKE to [[WhatTheHellHero convince Boris Yeltsin of their need for a foothold in Russia.]]
* ''Nuclear Strike'', which closes with the hunt for the ex-CIA warlord Colonel Lemonde in his pursuit to take down the world with the deconstruction and conquest of Southeast Asia before causing enough instability across the world, using stolen nuclear weaponry.
Oddly, it's a franchise that its [[ElectronicArts publisher]] hasn't yet considered for a modern incarnation, despite fairly strong sales during its heyday.
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!!Contains examples of the following tropes:
* AcePilot
* ActionGirl: Andrea Gray in Soviet and Nuclear is the best example. News reporter when wearing her brown wig and suit, asskicking inside field agent when in her combat togs with natural spiky blonde hair.
** Naja also counts in Nuclear Strike as the awesome rebel leader in the first mission, and your main copilot for most of it.
** A couple of the co-pilots in Urban Strike fall into this category.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In ''Nuclear Strike'', you're treated to the line "You mix Nitrogen and Chloride; you get salt". Nitrogen Trichloride is, in fact [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_trichloride similar to teargas]].
** The writer of that line probably was confused about the chemical formula of salt, [=NaCl=]. Na stands for Sodium (AKA Natrium), not Nitrogen, but the other half is Chlori'''n'''e.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: The pirate Octad (triad) leader Napoleon Hwong in Nuclear Strike's second mission.
* BottomlessMagazines: ''Jungle Strike'' features an F-117 with literally infinite ammo. This was done because the game's mechanics weren't really designed to handle a constantly moving jet fighter.
* CaptainErsatz: General Killbaba is clearly meant to be Saddam Hussein.
** The leader of North Korea in Nuclear Strike is named as "Kym Zung-Lee", which is just a slight alteration of Kim Jong-Il.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In Soviet Strike one mission requires you to get information out of the head of the Russian KGB....by kidnapping him and winching him down into the Moscow Zoo bear cage. He's terrified of bears.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Your chopper can be shot full of holes from all manner of rocket and AA gunfire, down to 5 remaining hitpoints and still keep fighting just as good as it does at 100% health, but one stray bullet from a soldier's rifle, and...
** Same happens with the ground missions in Urban Strike (you control the pilot outside of the helicopter). You have to be even more careful in that mission because at least you can juke back and forth in a helicopter to avoid shots.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=PlayStation=] versions. To give an idea, one mission takes place in Chernobyl where you have to kill a Romanian Gulag dominatrix (yes, you read that right) who had grown to become a ruling guerrilla leader in charge of a nation, apparently powerful enough to make a play for the Chernobyl reactor to use the nuclear materials to launch rockets over Europe. Then there's ThePlan detailed below.
* DeadpanSnarker: The player character in the MissionBriefing screens for ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'', as well as Ivan Uralia and Nick Arnold in Soviet Strike.
* DestroyableItems: In ''Jungle Strike'', the player can blow up half the buildings in Washington DC and still win the mission with no more than a few points deducted from the mission's final score. Just be sure not to blow up any famous monuments.... or the soldier standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
* DivorcedInstallment: A trailer for ''Future Strike'' was released, but the final product became ''FutureCopLAPD''.
Dysfunctional Family: Amad's family in Soviet Strike is not the most stable of families. In fact, they'll blindly murder each other with their individual units out of pure rage if they're paired against the one they hate (Though it's really uncle Nimrud that's the problem, Bessus and Delilah won't fight with each other each other).
* EasterEgg: Soviet Strike has SantaClaus in Crimea and a vampire Elvis in Transylvania.
* EasyLogistics: What luck that our helicopter can instantly replenish ammo, fuel and even armor just by winching up supplies that just happen to be scattered all over the battlefield!
* ElvisImpersonator: There are dancing Elvis impersonators inside the Las Vegas casino in Urban Strike. If you hang around one long enough, their dancing will generate an armor crate for you. This particular mission is ''extremely'' difficult because of how hard it is to avoid enemy fire while running around on foot, so these guys are crucial to your survival.
* EscortMission: Happens in every game sooner or later.
** The Washington D.C. level in Jungle Strike ends with you escorting the Presidential Motorcade back to the White House. It follows a specific route, and there are enemies waiting for it at almost every corner. The one saving grace about that is that the Motorcade won't advance unless you destroy the road blockade in front of it. This lets you go clear out the enemies first.
** Soviet Strike has you escorting President Boris Yeltsin, protecting him from coup forces while he drives around Moscow in his private car. Yeltsin "hasn't driven in thirty years" and [[DrivesLikeCrazy it shows]]. Also, he just ''has'' to stop at the local burger joint that some of the coup forces also happen to be dining at.
* {{FMV}}: The next generation titles were loaded with them. Mission briefings, intel and updates used live actors and stock footage, where enemy profiles usually used CG. All the relevant information can be read through as with the previous games, as well as political views and motivations of who you're fighting, with videos available with a button press.
* FogOfWar: The later games featured this in order to justify respawning enemies.
* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: An interesting take on this happens during Soviet Strike with Amad's family: Delilah (The Fox), Nimrud (The Chicken), and Bessus (The Grain. If Nimrud's forces cross paths with either of the others, the two groups will fight. You also have to make sure they fight the right enemy units or else they will be obliterated.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Ivan Uralia, the last copilot you obtain in Soviet Strike, is covered in burns from his rescue efforts during the Chernobyl disaster. His introductory cutscene has a long drawn out shot of the one on his face.
* GulfWar: The first game alludes to this.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Older audiences might know Colonel Lemonde as Roy Boone in White Lightning, John Cooper in The Rockford Files, or Matthew Blaisdel in Dynasty.◦ While younger ones might be surprised that their commanding officer is the security chief in The Secret World of Alex Mack, which was airing the same time as the game's release.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Averted in the first game, where the Apache's weapons load-out is 100% accurate. (Yes, it can actually carry 38 rockets, 8 missiles and 1200 20mm gun rounds at once.)
** A very strange example in that the attack chopper can also carry up to six passengers. Perhaps it's best not to ask where.
** Apparently these are Super Apache and Commanche helicopters, which not only has smart armor (explaining the extra lives) but a ramp drops down out the back, below the tail. Completing the first Moscow mission shows a video of it, and numerous CG videos will show where passengers would sit (sort of where the engine would be, under the rotors, separate from the cockpit).
** ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'' play this mildly, with the chopper carrying one extra missile and 22 more rockets but offset this by reducing the gun's capacity by 200 rounds.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: It certainly makes hovering over various pickups trickier.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Your chopper can't change altitude, so you have to fly around two story buildings or mountains. Urban Strike has you flying over the fog of San Fransisco, with the taller buildings and Golden Gate Bridge jutting above it. The Playstation games alter this slightly, having your helicopter constantly flying at a given altitude above the ground. You'll be shown flying up over hills and small buildings, but you still have to fly around larger geographic features and structures.
* IsometricProjection: for the 16-bit games; the later installments changed to a follow perspective.
* JustPlaneWrong: The final mission of ''Desert Strike'' features C-5 Galaxy cargo plane as a "nuclear bomber".
* Made of Explodium: Every vehicle and building will come apart in a nice shower of fragments and orange fireballs.
* MadeOfIron: Though not invincible, your helicopter can take a ''lot'' of missile hits and keep flying.
* MagicTool: Your helicopter's winch can pick up all manner of objects and instantly switch between hook and rope-ladder.
** Armor Repair Toolboxes instantly repair all damage to your chopper with no explanation as to how or even what was fixed.
*** Also acts as a medkit for the pilot himself.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadowman in ''Soviet Strike''. Allegedly one Uri Vatsisnov, fictional former head of the KGB, though this is not 100% confirmed. The codename for a mysterious individual attempting to stage a ''coup'' in post-Cold War Russia. He hacks into your site and taunts you throughout the game. He seemingly dies in the first mission but it's quickly revealed he's alive and behind the bad guys in all subsequent missions. He is never seen except in infra-red, and his voice is electronically muffled.
** [[spoiler: After the end credits, it transpires that ''STRIKE'' are the true masterminds behind the coup, or at least their bosses, and even allude to killing Trotsky because he didn't play ball, making them a GovernmentConspiracy going back decades. The ''coup'' was apparently to frighten then-President Yeltsin into obedience.]]
*** [[spoiler: Also, there is a strong possibility that the ''real'' Shadowman is none other than your co-pilot Nick Arnold, the Shadowman's convenient hostage for much of the game, maybe or not working on orders of the aforementioned [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] Hack once thinks that Shadowman must be a STRIKE member to be able to hack into their systems; his voice, though muffled, is similar to Nick's in later missions, and he has Nick's sense of humour and uses many of his phrases (eg. "viking funeral"). Not only is he Shadowman's hostage for most of the game, in the final levels Nick is seemingly with all the time, for no obvious reason as he has no apparent value as a captive.]]
* MuzzleFlashlight: Some of the night missions.
* NonstandardGameOver: Fail an objective and you'll be called back to base to get shouted at by a pixelly Stormin' Norman. In the [=PlayStation=] games, you can even go rogue and have your allies hunt you down if you refuse to return when ordered. Eventually they'll push the self-destruct button for, of all things, refueling too many times after you are recalled.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: "Over here!"
* NonLethalWarfare: News Chopper in one Nuclear Strike mission which is only armed with pellets, tear gas and smoke bombs. Somehow, this does not stop it from being able to blow up tanks.
* OnlyInIForTheMoney: Harding Cash's motivation for doing anything for you in Nuclear Strike.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: The final mission of Nuclear Strike, which involves ''all'' of your allies.
* PunnyName: One of your allies in Nuclear Strike is a mercenary named Harding Cash, with the nickname "Cold" added to the beginning.
* {{Qurac}}: The actual country involved in ''Desert Strike'' is never named.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Most obvious in ''Desert Strike'' and ''Soviet Strike'' in relation to the Gulf War and 1991 Soviet coup attempt respectively.
* ShoutOut: The terrorist combi van that's the first enemy you're likely to see in the second game is ripped right out of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* SideQuest: You're given bonus points for going above and beyond the mission parameters. If your mission is to take out a power station, take out the electrical towers with it; if you only need to capture one enemy commander to fulfill your objective, get the other three anyway; and so on. ''Desert Strike'', in particular, has an unadvertised mission to locate and rescue the MIA co-pilot during the second campaign.
* StockFootage: Soviet and Nuclear Strike use this for pretty much everything that doesn't need to have the game's own characters shown. The scene of Strike Team Echo being caught infiltrating for example is actually from the real life Operation Nimrod.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In ''Nuclear Strike'', Nick Arnold is killed off-screen during the first mission.
* TanksButNoTanks: ''Jungle Strike'' Level 3 features US M-551 "Sheridan" tanks armed with soviet 23MM AA guns. The real Sheridan was armed with a stubby, 155mm "gun" that fired anti-tank missiles.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Several of your copilots have to be rescued by you.
* TurnsRed: Inverted. At the start of each campaign, the enemy has various radars and electrical systems in operation which, while active, make their units target you faster, hit harder, and take more hits. Naturally, these radars/power plants will be among your first objectives to level the playing field.
* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: The plot is delivered by a LawyerFriendlyCameo version of CNN, the GBS. [[spoiler: As if this isn't obvious enough, GBS is basically the information arm of STRIKE.]]
** The 16-bit installments featured EANN (Electronic Arts News Network, in the levels and some of the cut-scenes between missions.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The on-foot levels in ''Urban Strike''.
* UniversalDriversLicense: In ''Jungle Strike'', ''Urban Strike'' and ''Nuclear Strike'', the player operates additional vehicles, including a (not so) stealth fighter, a hovercraft, an armed motorcycle, a cargo helicopter and an experimental "Ground Assault Vehicle".
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Trying to rescue every civilian, allied soldier, and enemy non-combatant in every mission, even after you've rescued enough to achieve the mission objective.
** Though, there is the benefit of gaining/recovering some hitpoints from dropping them off at landing zones.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Chemical, bio and nuke weapons in ''Desert Strike'', nukes in ''Jungle Strike'', super-lasers in ''Urban Strike'', nukes in ''Soviet Strike'' [[CaptainObvious and Nuclear Strike]].
* WeDoTheImpossible: Take on a battalion of tanks alone, check; sink nuclear submarines with a hovercraft, yep; destroy an air defense network consisting of Patriots, AA Guns, RPG-armed soldiers, radar and patrolling helicopters with your one chopper, no problem. And that's just in one game.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Soviet Strike had a shadowy character only known as the "Security Czar" running STRIKE, who at the end threatens Yeltsin into allowing STRIKE to act freely within Russia. In Nuclear Strike this sinister conspiracy overtone is gone, along with the entire character of Security Czar.
** After the first mission in Urban Strike you learn that the villain H.R. Malone is actually Carlos Ortega, one of the main villains of Jungle Strike who has undergone plastic surgery. This plot point never comes up again, even when you face Malone in person.
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[[caption-width-right:250:GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!]]
The StrikeSeries were a series of five games from ElectronicArts, where the player took control of an Apache gunship to undertake several missions for the US government (and later on a mercernary organisation known as STRIKE), usually attempting to thwart the plans and lives of various megalomaniacal dictators or warlords threatening the world's safety.
The games were played from an [[IsometricProjection isometric perspective]], and as such were more tactical than an out and out shooting game, requiring precision in 360 degrees.
The series included:
* ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'', set at the end of the Gulf War where the player must thwart the Saddam Hussein-a-like General Killbaba.
* ''Jungle Strike'', which dealt with the son of Killbaba making negotiations with the notoriously dangerous Colombian drug dealer Carlos Ortega in South America after his initial assassination attempts on the President of the United States.
* ''Urban Strike'', whose main enemy is H.R. Malone, an insidious politician who takes control of the media and plans to convert the USA into his personal armed fortress.
* ''Soviet Strike'', the first of two PS1 games where the newly-formed STRIKE organisation must take down a mysterious Russian terrorist called "The Shadowman" and his plans to bring back the glory of Soviet Russia through violence. That, or a elaborate {{plan}} by STRIKE to [[WhatTheHellHero convince Boris Yeltsin of their need for a foothold in Russia.]]
* ''Nuclear Strike'', which closes with the hunt for the ex-CIA warlord Colonel Lemonde in his pursuit to take down the world with the deconstruction and conquest of Southeast Asia before causing enough instability across the world, using stolen nuclear weaponry.
Oddly, it's a franchise that its [[ElectronicArts publisher]] hasn't yet considered for a modern incarnation, despite fairly strong sales during its heyday.
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!!Contains examples of the following tropes:
* AcePilot
* ActionGirl: Andrea Gray in Soviet and Nuclear is the best example. News reporter when wearing her brown wig and suit, asskicking inside field agent when in her combat togs with natural spiky blonde hair.
** Naja also counts in Nuclear Strike as the awesome rebel leader in the first mission, and your main copilot for most of it.
** A couple of the co-pilots in Urban Strike fall into this category.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In ''Nuclear Strike'', you're treated to the line "You mix Nitrogen and Chloride; you get salt". Nitrogen Trichloride is, in fact [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_trichloride similar to teargas]].
** The writer of that line probably was confused about the chemical formula of salt, [=NaCl=]. Na stands for Sodium (AKA Natrium), not Nitrogen, but the other half is Chlori'''n'''e.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: The pirate Octad (triad) leader Napoleon Hwong in Nuclear Strike's second mission.
* BottomlessMagazines: ''Jungle Strike'' features an F-117 with literally infinite ammo. This was done because the game's mechanics weren't really designed to handle a constantly moving jet fighter.
* CaptainErsatz: General Killbaba is clearly meant to be Saddam Hussein.
** The leader of North Korea in Nuclear Strike is named as "Kym Zung-Lee", which is just a slight alteration of Kim Jong-Il.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In Soviet Strike one mission requires you to get information out of the head of the Russian KGB....by kidnapping him and winching him down into the Moscow Zoo bear cage. He's terrified of bears.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Your chopper can be shot full of holes from all manner of rocket and AA gunfire, down to 5 remaining hitpoints and still keep fighting just as good as it does at 100% health, but one stray bullet from a soldier's rifle, and...
** Same happens with the ground missions in Urban Strike (you control the pilot outside of the helicopter). You have to be even more careful in that mission because at least you can juke back and forth in a helicopter to avoid shots.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=PlayStation=] versions. To give an idea, one mission takes place in Chernobyl where you have to kill a Romanian Gulag dominatrix (yes, you read that right) who had grown to become a ruling guerrilla leader in charge of a nation, apparently powerful enough to make a play for the Chernobyl reactor to use the nuclear materials to launch rockets over Europe. Then there's ThePlan detailed below.
* DeadpanSnarker: The player character in the MissionBriefing screens for ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'', as well as Ivan Uralia and Nick Arnold in Soviet Strike.
* DestroyableItems: In ''Jungle Strike'', the player can blow up half the buildings in Washington DC and still win the mission with no more than a few points deducted from the mission's final score. Just be sure not to blow up any famous monuments.... or the soldier standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
* DivorcedInstallment: A trailer for ''Future Strike'' was released, but the final product became ''FutureCopLAPD''.
Dysfunctional Family: Amad's family in Soviet Strike is not the most stable of families. In fact, they'll blindly murder each other with their individual units out of pure rage if they're paired against the one they hate (Though it's really uncle Nimrud that's the problem, Bessus and Delilah won't fight with each other each other).
* EasterEgg: Soviet Strike has SantaClaus in Crimea and a vampire Elvis in Transylvania.
* EasyLogistics: What luck that our helicopter can instantly replenish ammo, fuel and even armor just by winching up supplies that just happen to be scattered all over the battlefield!
* ElvisImpersonator: There are dancing Elvis impersonators inside the Las Vegas casino in Urban Strike. If you hang around one long enough, their dancing will generate an armor crate for you. This particular mission is ''extremely'' difficult because of how hard it is to avoid enemy fire while running around on foot, so these guys are crucial to your survival.
* EscortMission: Happens in every game sooner or later.
** The Washington D.C. level in Jungle Strike ends with you escorting the Presidential Motorcade back to the White House. It follows a specific route, and there are enemies waiting for it at almost every corner. The one saving grace about that is that the Motorcade won't advance unless you destroy the road blockade in front of it. This lets you go clear out the enemies first.
** Soviet Strike has you escorting President Boris Yeltsin, protecting him from coup forces while he drives around Moscow in his private car. Yeltsin "hasn't driven in thirty years" and [[DrivesLikeCrazy it shows]]. Also, he just ''has'' to stop at the local burger joint that some of the coup forces also happen to be dining at.
* {{FMV}}: The next generation titles were loaded with them. Mission briefings, intel and updates used live actors and stock footage, where enemy profiles usually used CG. All the relevant information can be read through as with the previous games, as well as political views and motivations of who you're fighting, with videos available with a button press.
* FogOfWar: The later games featured this in order to justify respawning enemies.
* FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: An interesting take on this happens during Soviet Strike with Amad's family: Delilah (The Fox), Nimrud (The Chicken), and Bessus (The Grain. If Nimrud's forces cross paths with either of the others, the two groups will fight. You also have to make sure they fight the right enemy units or else they will be obliterated.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Ivan Uralia, the last copilot you obtain in Soviet Strike, is covered in burns from his rescue efforts during the Chernobyl disaster. His introductory cutscene has a long drawn out shot of the one on his face.
* GulfWar: The first game alludes to this.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Older audiences might know Colonel Lemonde as Roy Boone in White Lightning, John Cooper in The Rockford Files, or Matthew Blaisdel in Dynasty.◦ While younger ones might be surprised that their commanding officer is the security chief in The Secret World of Alex Mack, which was airing the same time as the game's release.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Averted in the first game, where the Apache's weapons load-out is 100% accurate. (Yes, it can actually carry 38 rockets, 8 missiles and 1200 20mm gun rounds at once.)
** A very strange example in that the attack chopper can also carry up to six passengers. Perhaps it's best not to ask where.
** Apparently these are Super Apache and Commanche helicopters, which not only has smart armor (explaining the extra lives) but a ramp drops down out the back, below the tail. Completing the first Moscow mission shows a video of it, and numerous CG videos will show where passengers would sit (sort of where the engine would be, under the rotors, separate from the cockpit).
** ''Jungle Strike'' and ''Urban Strike'' play this mildly, with the chopper carrying one extra missile and 22 more rockets but offset this by reducing the gun's capacity by 200 rounds.
** One mission in ''Jungle Strike'' plays completely straight, see the BottomlessMagazines entry above.
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: It certainly makes hovering over various pickups trickier.
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Your chopper can't change altitude, so you have to fly around two story buildings or mountains. Urban Strike has you flying over the fog of San Fransisco, with the taller buildings and Golden Gate Bridge jutting above it. The Playstation games alter this slightly, having your helicopter constantly flying at a given altitude above the ground. You'll be shown flying up over hills and small buildings, but you still have to fly around larger geographic features and structures.
* IsometricProjection: for the 16-bit games; the later installments changed to a follow perspective.
* JustPlaneWrong: The final mission of ''Desert Strike'' features C-5 Galaxy cargo plane as a "nuclear bomber".
* Made of Explodium: Every vehicle and building will come apart in a nice shower of fragments and orange fireballs.
* MadeOfIron: Though not invincible, your helicopter can take a ''lot'' of missile hits and keep flying.
* MagicTool: Your helicopter's winch can pick up all manner of objects and instantly switch between hook and rope-ladder.
** Armor Repair Toolboxes instantly repair all damage to your chopper with no explanation as to how or even what was fixed.
*** Also acts as a medkit for the pilot himself.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadowman in ''Soviet Strike''. Allegedly one Uri Vatsisnov, fictional former head of the KGB, though this is not 100% confirmed. The codename for a mysterious individual attempting to stage a ''coup'' in post-Cold War Russia. He hacks into your site and taunts you throughout the game. He seemingly dies in the first mission but it's quickly revealed he's alive and behind the bad guys in all subsequent missions. He is never seen except in infra-red, and his voice is electronically muffled.
** [[spoiler: After the end credits, it transpires that ''STRIKE'' are the true masterminds behind the coup, or at least their bosses, and even allude to killing Trotsky because he didn't play ball, making them a GovernmentConspiracy going back decades. The ''coup'' was apparently to frighten then-President Yeltsin into obedience.]]
*** [[spoiler: Also, there is a strong possibility that the ''real'' Shadowman is none other than your co-pilot Nick Arnold, the Shadowman's convenient hostage for much of the game, maybe or not working on orders of the aforementioned [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] Hack once thinks that Shadowman must be a STRIKE member to be able to hack into their systems; his voice, though muffled, is similar to Nick's in later missions, and he has Nick's sense of humour and uses many of his phrases (eg. "viking funeral"). Not only is he Shadowman's hostage for most of the game, in the final levels Nick is seemingly with all the time, for no obvious reason as he has no apparent value as a captive.]]
* MuzzleFlashlight: Some of the night missions.
* NonstandardGameOver: Fail an objective and you'll be called back to base to get shouted at by a pixelly Stormin' Norman. In the [=PlayStation=] games, you can even go rogue and have your allies hunt you down if you refuse to return when ordered. Eventually they'll push the self-destruct button for, of all things, refueling too many times after you are recalled.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: "Over here!"
* NonLethalWarfare: News Chopper in one Nuclear Strike mission which is only armed with pellets, tear gas and smoke bombs. Somehow, this does not stop it from being able to blow up tanks.
* OnlyInIForTheMoney: Harding Cash's motivation for doing anything for you in Nuclear Strike.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: The final mission of Nuclear Strike, which involves ''all'' of your allies.
* PunnyName: One of your allies in Nuclear Strike is a mercenary named Harding Cash, with the nickname "Cold" added to the beginning.
* {{Qurac}}: The actual country involved in ''Desert Strike'' is never named.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Most obvious in ''Desert Strike'' and ''Soviet Strike'' in relation to the Gulf War and 1991 Soviet coup attempt respectively.
* ShoutOut: The terrorist combi van that's the first enemy you're likely to see in the second game is ripped right out of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* SideQuest: You're given bonus points for going above and beyond the mission parameters. If your mission is to take out a power station, take out the electrical towers with it; if you only need to capture one enemy commander to fulfill your objective, get the other three anyway; and so on. ''Desert Strike'', in particular, has an unadvertised mission to locate and rescue the MIA co-pilot during the second campaign.
* StockFootage: Soviet and Nuclear Strike use this for pretty much everything that doesn't need to have the game's own characters shown. The scene of Strike Team Echo being caught infiltrating for example is actually from the real life Operation Nimrod.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In ''Nuclear Strike'', Nick Arnold is killed off-screen during the first mission.
* TanksButNoTanks: ''Jungle Strike'' Level 3 features US M-551 "Sheridan" tanks armed with soviet 23MM AA guns. The real Sheridan was armed with a stubby, 155mm "gun" that fired anti-tank missiles.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Several of your copilots have to be rescued by you.
* TurnsRed: Inverted. At the start of each campaign, the enemy has various radars and electrical systems in operation which, while active, make their units target you faster, hit harder, and take more hits. Naturally, these radars/power plants will be among your first objectives to level the playing field.
* TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: The plot is delivered by a LawyerFriendlyCameo version of CNN, the GBS. [[spoiler: As if this isn't obvious enough, GBS is basically the information arm of STRIKE.]]
** The 16-bit installments featured EANN (Electronic Arts News Network, in the levels and some of the cut-scenes between missions.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The on-foot levels in ''Urban Strike''.
* UniversalDriversLicense: In ''Jungle Strike'', ''Urban Strike'' and ''Nuclear Strike'', the player operates additional vehicles, including a (not so) stealth fighter, a hovercraft, an armed motorcycle, a cargo helicopter and an experimental "Ground Assault Vehicle".
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Trying to rescue every civilian, allied soldier, and enemy non-combatant in every mission, even after you've rescued enough to achieve the mission objective.
** Though, there is the benefit of gaining/recovering some hitpoints from dropping them off at landing zones.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Chemical, bio and nuke weapons in ''Desert Strike'', nukes in ''Jungle Strike'', super-lasers in ''Urban Strike'', nukes in ''Soviet Strike'' [[CaptainObvious and Nuclear Strike]].
* WeDoTheImpossible: Take on a battalion of tanks alone, check; sink nuclear submarines with a hovercraft, yep; destroy an air defense network consisting of Patriots, AA Guns, RPG-armed soldiers, radar and patrolling helicopters with your one chopper, no problem. And that's just in one game.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Soviet Strike had a shadowy character only known as the "Security Czar" running STRIKE, who at the end threatens Yeltsin into allowing STRIKE to act freely within Russia. In Nuclear Strike this sinister conspiracy overtone is gone, along with the entire character of Security Czar.
** After the first mission in Urban Strike you learn that the villain H.R. Malone is actually Carlos Ortega, one of the main villains of Jungle Strike who has undergone plastic surgery. This plot point never comes up again, even when you face Malone in person.
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