- 2037 - World Peace at Last.
Scientists at Osteron Research. Inc developed technology allowing for the creation of matter out of pure energy.
With this technology, Osteron engineered a device that would forever alter the course of human history; the Dark matter Reactor.
The power to create an infinite supply of food, resources and anything one could dream of lef to the end of war., poverty, and political strife...
By 2050, mankind was in the midst of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Life was good.
...but not for everyone.
Especially not for Kain, the hero and an ex-wracketeer, private mercenaries who works as soldiers-for-hire for corporations. For wracketeers knows only violence, rage, and killing, and Kain, besides being screwed out of a job because of world peace, suspects a utopian world without any sort of defense is a sitting duck to any external invasion force.
Turns out Kain is, like every video game protagonist out there, Properly Paranoid - when a hostile alien race called the Arcturans launches an invasion, Kain is the one hero who can fight back.
Wrack is an indie 2014 First-Person Shooter developed and published by Final Boss Entertainment, one whose animations are cel-shaded and resembling a graphic novel coming to life. In control of Kain, the player can battle robots, mutants, and other creatures, in a massively cartoony fashion that the game's Steam website casually describes as Doom meets Mega Man.
Wrack also contains a level editor that allows players to create and share their own custom levels with others, not unlike Doom. There's also a "Time Attack" mode, for players to complete levels as quickly as possible for a spot on the game's leaderboard.
An Expansion Pack called Wrack: Exoverse is available in 2018, and a combination between an FPS and a Tower Defense game where Kain must prevent enemies from reaching the defense beacon he's assigned to protect.
"I'm not going to let anything happen. Not again."
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The second stage is set in the city sewers, one a couple floors tall and wide enough for Kain and several mooks to run around while battling each other.
- And the Adventure Continues: And continue it did, in Wrack: Exoverse.Kain: Well, looks like I'm headed to the Arcturan's home planet. This is a one way trip too, but it's the only chance I've got.
- Arm Cannon: Most of the bosses, being either robots or cyborgs, have their weapons built into their arms, including Mechron, Zombo, Gnash, and a few others.
- Body Armor as Hit Points: Like in Doom, Kain has a second layer of armor besides his life who offsets some damage inflicted to his health. The shield level notably can go beyond 100 points.
- Cool Sword: Kain's Hyperblade, a curved, powerful sword radiating with pure energy with an Absurdly Sharp Blade, allowing Kain to hack apart mooks with ease.
- Helicopter Pack: The first boss, Geizer, has mechanical rotors supported by wings, who attacks Kain from the side of a building. Deplete his health and Geizer briefly grabs the side of the floor he's fought on, before falling offscreen.
- Hold the Line: In Exoverse, where Kain needs to fend off alien invaders enemrging from portals. The game even throws the words "Hold the Line!" onscreen.
- Kevlard: Giggordo, the toad-like, gigantic Arcturan monster, who may be a Stationary Boss, but thanks to it's huge girth and underbelly can absorb Kain's attacks like no tomorrow in it's boss battle. Even Kain's Grenade Launcher does Scratch Damage on it.
- Les Collaborateurs: Kain finds out after the first stage that the many robots and cyborgs he battled throughout the level are not of Arcturan origin, but comes from a human scientist, Exo, who decided to support the alien invasion because he believes robots are "superior to organic life", as such is assisting the invaders wipe out humanity.
- Lizard Folk: The Arcturan invaders are lizard-people resembing the reptilians.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Expect enemies to explode into bloodied chunks half of the time - getting hit by the Hyperblade from close range, standing near to Exploding Barrels (which the game's quite generous about), shot to shreds by the minigun, hit by grenades and all that. The gorn genorosity is roughly on par with the original Doom.
- Mecha-Mooks: The Arcturan invaders have their own robot army, which Kain destroys regularly in the game. And they're Earth technology instead of Arcturan, supplied by Exo the Robot Master who decides to side with the aliens.
- A Molten Date with Death: More than one stage takes place in a factory filled with pools of molten steel Kain needs to jump across. Miss a jump, Kain sinks into the steel and is incinerated from a first-person perspective.
- Name of Cain: The game's hero have this name, and is one of the few Blood Knight remaining in a world without violence. Naturally when invaders sees this as an opportunity to conquer humanity, Kain on the other hand sees this as an opportunity to kick ass and fulfill his bloodlust.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: When Kain reunites with his partner, Fabian, and realize she barely survived an Arcturan invasion which destroyed most of the human base, killing several humans with barely any survivors and abducting Kain's lover Starlyn in the process. Worse of all, they burnt half of her hair.Fabian: That's not even the worse part. They... they killed...
Kain: Who? Who did those bastards kill? Tell me!
Fabian: They killed... my hair! [Reveal Shot where half of Fabian's hair is scorched]
Kain: ...
Fabian: Avenge my hair, Kain. Avenge my hair.
Kain: ...I hate you. - Oculothorax: There's a cyborg take on the trope as one of the bosses, resembling a gigantic eyeball seated on a mechanical chassis with spindly legs, appropriately called Oculus.
- Sword Beam: The Hyperblade have a special attack by holding down the slash button; release it and Kain unleashes energy bolts in an arc with each swing.
- Tank-Tread Mecha: The second boss, Mechron, a giant mech whose lower body is a tank.
- TV Head Robot: Exo's final mech and the last boss, Galactron, is a giant robot whose face is a TV screen depicting it's controller's expressions... as an emoji. Yes, it's tilted.
- Warm-Up Boss: Geizer, the first boss, has only one low-angled, predictable ranged attack (who merely serves to be practice for Kain's jumping move), stays mostly at one elevation in mid-air, pauses after releasing it's projectile (allowing Kain to blast him with lead) and doesn't take too much effort to defeat.
- We Will Meet Again: Exo leaves one of these to Kain after Galactron's defeat as he bails from his exploding base. He makes a comeback in the follow-up, Exoverse.Exo: You haven't seen the last of me! I promise it... you... you...
Kain: The name is Kain.
Exo: I wasn't asking. [BOOM]
