Why did it have to be sharks?
- The Ocean is full of secrets and mysteries, and diving into it's depths is like opening a Pandora's box of horrors.
It's like The Ocean Hunter remade as an FPS. So now you can control your character.
Death in the Water is an underwater-themed Adventure Game made by Lighthouse Games Studio.
Blackwater Bay has always been shrouded in mystery and fear, where its waters are infested with hostile marine life, dissappearing ships and planes a regular occurrence, and assorted rumors from locals about ghostly sirens to humungous krakens haunting beneath the surface. Only the best bounty hunters dare to venture and explore it's depths, and you're one of them.
The sequel, Death in the Water 2, plays out pretty much like an Expansion Pack of the original game, with new enemies and weapons included.
Death in the Water (1 and 2) contain examples of:
- Almost Out of Oxygen: You can suffer from oxygen shortage in both games, given that you're diving around deep ocean trenches. Find a spare oxygen tank or you'll suffer a Non-Standard Game Over.
- Antagonist Title: Death in the Water. Turns out "Death" is an ancient, powerful giant octopus and Final Boss of the game.
- Blackout Basement: The deepest, darkest parts of the trenches have you navigating your way through with your suit's flashlight being your only source of illumination. Sharks and sea-snakes tends to ambush you from the dark in these areas.
- Blinded by the Light: The Flash Bang, an underwater flash grenade that can disorientate hostile marine life. Given your enemies comes from deep, dark ocean trenches and never saw light their whole lives, it works like a charm.
- Blood Is Squicker in Water: Injuring an enemy underwater will result in a small cloud of red spreading out.
- Bounty Hunter: You play as one volunteering to investigate Blackwater Bay, hoping to find underwater treasures during your hunt. It doesn't disappoint.
- Camera Abuse: Getting chomped upon by hostile aquatic monsters will have your screen splattered with blood (presumably yours).
- Derelict Graveyard: You eventually found out what happened to the various missing ships (including a plane!) when you reach Blackwater Bay's deepest trenches and comes across a seemingly endless field of destroyed ships. You even explore a monster-infested Shipshape Shipwreck in one area.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Of course. You might dismiss the marine life as defending their territories, until you manage to skewer an underwater enemy with the harpoon - while underwater predators like sharks in real life would more likely attack another injured animal because of the blood, here the sharks promptly ignores the clouding blood and comes straight for you.
- Giant Squid: Huge, black octopuses appears as a recurring enemy, including the Final Boss, Death itself.
- The Goomba: Lionfishes. Painfully slow enemies whose spines deal Scratch Damage thanks to your thick wetsuit, and they die in a single harpoon shot. The first mission have you hunting them as a training mission before you move on to sharks.
- Guns Firing Underwater: Justified with the kraken (an underwater shotgun) - it's been specifically modified to fire charged pumps in the deepest depths.
- Harpoon Gun: Being a diver, your default weapon is your trusty harpoon launcher. You can also equip a harpoon minigun before fighting Death in the second game.
- Impossible Item Drop: Sharks, sea snakes, octopi, lionfishes and the like will constantly drop gold coins after they're killed.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The "siren" enemies are the evil variety of mermaids, depicted as fish-human hybrids who attacks you with spears.
- Sea Monster: You think? Death the octopus itself is notably larger than submarines.
- Slippery as an Eel: Alongside sharks and sea snakes, ferocious moray eels - far larger than any real-life species - are another enemy.
- Threatening Shark: Expectedly for an underwater-themed action game, sharks are the most common enemies you encounter in every stage. They come in several varieties as well, from the common, stereotypically-ferocious Great Whites to Mako and Tiger Sharks.
- Underwater Boss Battle: All of them.
- Underwater Ruins: The second half of 2 have you exploring these as you get closer to Death.
- Your next descent into darkness awaits...
