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DEFECTIVE

You must save the world, whatever the cost...

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September 5, 2017
8 years and 333 days ago
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About the Game

You must save the world, whatever the cost...


DEFECTIVE - This is a First Person Shooter (FPS) with action elements throughout..

The Story

Defective takes place in the year 2068 when the world has beencaptured and controlled by a race of alien robotic creatures.
All known life on Earth has been burned and destroyed and theworld has been changed radically, this has forced the remaining
people to live hidden underground. The richest of those remainingnow live inside space stations, and not all have surrendered to the
robotic threat, some continue to fight for what they believe in.This has included an attempt by a detachment of peacekeepers to
blow up an interplanetary planet, although this opportunity failedit was not completely pointless as a single defective robot was
collected which could later be reprogrammed. This is where your story begins, after several years to reprogram
this robot so begins the liberation of the Earth from the hands of the alien invaders...

Use:

  • Deceleration of time
  • Inventory
  • Jet Jumping

And finally understand why this all happened!