History VideoGame / ParadiseCracked

* PointBuildSystem: Points can be spread between Intellect, Strength, Dexterity, Accuracy and Driving.

* HollywoodHacking: The hacking here is used to open up doors, rob the cash dispensers and disable robots, with the high Intellect level increasing your chances of doing all of those things.
* InMediasRes: The game begins with the protagonist telling about himself to a camera. In the English translation, at least, we never really learn who he's addressing.

* EverythingFades: All the things you can destroy in the game will always stay destroyed. However, the enemies' bodies will be removed once you leave the area, and so will all the loot they're carrying if you haven't removed it first.

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: "Heavy" and "light" bullets are described as dealing higher damage with reduced range and long-range with reduced damage respectively. In real life, heavy projectile would lose its velocity much slower, resulting in longr effective range.

* DumpStat: Driving, as it is already possible to drive mini-buses to get around faster, while the powerful military vehicles are too rare to bother with the skill. In addition, high driving is mutually exclusive with high accuracy, making it even more undesirable.

* DeadpanSnarker: The companion you start with. Clicking on him will usually result in him responding with either "I'm still alive, but that's not for too long *laugh* ", or "No bullet is wasted on good people".

* ObviousBeta: The game’s original build became legendary for frequently freezing even on the best computers of the time.

* PointBuildSystem: Points can be spread betwen Intellect, Strength, Dexterity, Accuracy and Driving.
* Prequel: [[VideoGame/COPS2170ThePowerOfLaw COPS 2170 The Power Of Law]] is a Prequel to ''VideoGame/ParadiseCracked''.

** The game does not actually have a real-time mode at all: all of the actions, even walking

* Prequel: [[VideoGame/COPS2170ThePowerOfLaw COPS 2170 The Power Of Law]]
is a Prequel to ''VideoGame/ParadiseCracked''.

The devs would later make another Cyberpunk RolePlayingGame RPG/ TurnBasedTactics game called [[VideoGame/COPS2170ThePowerOfLaw COPS 2170 The Power Of Law]]

* Prequel: COPS2170ThePowerOfLaw is a Prequel to Paradise Cracked.

* UnwinnableByMistake: What happens when you kill off a plot-critical NPC.

* FetchQuest: Quite a few side quests in the game. Many of those also offer alternate routes of completion. For example, you can dutifully retrieve a suitcase with merchant’s prototype guns for his reward, or you can deliver those prototypes to the head of the Syndicate who’ll pay you generously and will have his troops take your side during combat.

* InMediasRes: The game begins with the protagonist telling about himself to a camera. In the English translation, at least, we never really learn who he’s addressing.

* TurnBasedTactics: Like in VideoGame/{{XCOM}} and other such games, each character gains a supply of action points every turn that are then expended on various actions that are done turn by turn. A high reaction stat also allows characters to interrupt the enemy’s turn.

* CameraScrew: Averted. In fact, it is one of the few things in the game that always works perfectly and doesn’t glitch out.

* EverythingFades: Generally averted, as all the things you can destroy in the game will always stay destroyed.
** However, the enemies' bodies will be removed once you leave the area, and so will all the loot they’re carrying if you haven't removed it first.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted, as women will get more points when levelling up then men, and there are other differences like that

* UniversalDriversLicense: Averted, as only the characters with high Driving skill can use military vehicles like tanks. Others will generally be limited to mini-buses.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted, as womwill get more points when levelling up then men, and there are other differences like that

''Paradise Cracked'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]]/ TurnBasedTactics game, released in Russia in 2002 as "Код доступа: Рай" (literally "The password is heaven/paradise"), before getting a worldwide release in 2004.

The devs would later make another Cyberpunk RolePlayingGame RPG/ TurnBasedTactics game called [[VideoGame/COPS2170ThePowerOfLaw games]]

The devs would later make another Cyberpunk RolePlayingGame RPG/ TurnBasedTactics game called {{COPS 2170 The Power Of Law}}

The devs would later make another {{Cyberpunk}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]]/ TurnBasedTactics game called [[COPS 2170 The Power Of Law]]

''Paradise Cracked'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]]/ TurnBasedTactics game, released in Russia in 2002, before getting a worldwide release in 2004.

''Paradise Cracked'' is a Cyberpunk RolePlayingGame/TurnBasedTactics game, released in Russia in 2002, before getting a worldwide release in 2004. It is set in a Dystopian world hundreds of years into the future, where the Earth’s biosphere has been largely destroyed as a result of overpopulation and pollution, and all the global authority has been surrendered to the supercomputer known as [=CyberBrain=] in order to preserve what remains of humanity. It decides to house humanity in the enclosed hive cities, where the poor inhabit lower levels, while the rich live in the [=HighTown=], but spend most of their time amidst the pleasures of Cyberspace. The day-to-day running of things is handled by each City’s Police, but they’ve been facing increased resistance from the two giant corporations, known as The Syndicate and the Trade Coalition.

* MegaCorp: Two of them,The Syndicate and the Trade Coalition. They’re in a violent competition, and working foe one will undermine your standing with the other, to the point where the disaffected party will open fire on sight.

* PointBuildSystem: Points can be spread betwen een Intellect, Strength, Dextrerity, Accuracy and Driving.

* TurnBasedTactics: Like in VideoGame/{{X-Com}} and other such games, each character gains a supply of action points every turn that are then expended on various actions that are done turn by turn. A high reaction stat also allows characters to interrupt the enemy’s turn.

** However, the enemies’ bodies will be removed once you leave the area, and so will all the loot they’re carrying if you haven’t removed it first.

* KillItWithFire: Guns firing incendiary bullets and incendiary grenades can be used by both the Hacker and his enemies. Characters set on fire in that manner receive hefty amounts of damage every turn. Thankfully, there are implants that can increase your character’s Fire Resistance.
* LostForever: Some questlines will disappear completely when the quest givers are killed. This can even happen without the player’s knowledge; game’s factions are entirely capable of killing off the rivals’ key [=NPCs=].

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential VideoGameCaringPotential: The game’s quests have scope for both.

* InMediaRes: The game begins with the protagonist telling about himself to a camera. In the English translation, at least, we never really learn who he’s addressing.

'''Paradise Cracked''' is a Cyberpunk RolePlayingGame/TurnBasedTactics game, released in Russia in 2002, before getting a worldwide release in 2004. It is set in a Dystopian world hundreds of years into the future, where the Earth’s biosphere has been largely destroyed as a result of overpopulation and pollution, and all the global authority has been surrendered to the supercomputer known as [=CyberBrain=] in order to preserve what remains of humanity. It decides to house humanity in the enclosed hive cities, where the poor inhabit lower levels, while the rich live in the [=HighTown=], but spend most of their time amidst the pleasures of Cyberspace. The day-to-day running of things is handled by each City’s Police, but they’ve been facing increased resistance from the two giant corporations, known as The Syndicate and the Trade Coalition.

* LostForever: Some questlines will disappear completely when the quest givers are killed. This can even happen without the player’s knowledge; game’s factions are entirely capable of killing off the rivals’ key NPCs.