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  • The sound effect of weapons and ammo respawning in multiplayer mode is exactly the same we hear in Half-Life 's Deathmatch Classic mod.
  • The design of Area 51's laboratories, hallways, and even the autopsy rooms is lifted straight out of Independence Day.
  • The entire level "Chicago: Stealth" is an homage to Blade Runner, with flying cars and neon billboards, Chinese characters everywhere, Joanna (and half the people she encounters) wearing trenchcoats, and constant pouring rain.
  • The flying taxi cab you have to blow up in the Chicago level looks identical to the one Korbean Dallas flies in The Fifth Element. Also, a trailer for the game shows Joanna's apartment, which is not unlike Dallas' in that movie (hidden compartments, monitors everywhere, the Wall of Weapons).
  • The K7 Avenger is visually based on the design of the pulse rifle from Aliens.
  • The Skedar attack ship is based on the Auriga from Alien: Resurrection, and their dropships are like the brown shuttle from the same movie.
  • The cloaking device and other elements (the RC-P120 and the interior of the G5 building) are taken from Ghost in the Shell.
  • As a Call-Back to GoldenEye (1997), all of the guns from the game appear in glass cases on the firing range, and some of them can be used in single player with cheats.
  • Joanna's auto-targeting HUD and the MagSec machine pistol; both make it clear that somebody on the design team had watched RoboCop (1987) before. The Laptop Gun is used by the drug dealing child in RoboCop 2. The X-ray scanner is also very much like the one RoboCop has.
  • The multi-player level "The Grid" is borrowed from the building Neo and Trinity storm in The Matrix, complete with columns and an elevator. Plus the name of the level is a dead giveaway.
  • The concept of a railgun that fires through walls seems to be borrowed from Eraser.
  • A very subtle one: the names that are mentioned over the intercom in Area 51 are actually the members of the rock band The Pixies.
  • And the announcements themselves ("Dr. X, go to location Y") may be a reference to a scene from TRON.
  • In the first bonus level, Mr. Blonde does an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. The level's music even sounds kind of like the theme from Terminator.
    "Go to the helipad if you want to live."
  • The Maian aliens are based on the classic sci-fi "greys." Elvis even has a flying saucer.
  • In Mission 5-2, the outro cut-scene pays homage to the part in The Empire Strikes Back when the Millennium Falcon fails to enter hyperspace.
    Joanna: Elvis! Elvis! I can't detach that tube from the fuselage! Can you take it out?
    Elvis: Piece of cake, Joanna. Watch this!
    *Weapons malfunction*
    Elvis: ...Uh-oh.
    Joanna: Watch what? Will you stop playing around and shoot!?
  • Joanna's Horizon Scanner has the same display as Luke's binoculars in A New Hope.
  • The Psychosis Gun, which injects enemy soldiers with a drug that makes them go crazy and start attacking each other, is a reference to the movie Jacob's Ladder.
  • The Alaska mission, where Air Force One is hijacked, the President gets away in an escape pod and Joanna has to find him using his medical scanner, is very similar to the plot of Escape from New York.
  • The physical layout of Air Force One is very similar to another Air Force One from a film that Harrison ford starred in.
  • As humorously pointed out by Eurogamer, at least in the Remastered Edition, the guard Joanna knocks out at the beginning of the second mission looks amazingly similar to Peter Molyneux.


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