Hi gamers, This is just a discussion thread about one of my favorite audio games, a little gem we like to call Shades of Doom. I've beaten it on all five difficulty levels (yes, even It's a good day to die), and throughout my experiences with the game I noticed some similarities between SOD and a few novels I've had the pleasure of reading. Fair warning, those who haven't beaten SOD may wish to skip this. I won't be spoiling the actual ending to the game but there may be some spoilers nonetheless. Perhaps the biggest thing I noticed was that, once the experiment is shut down, any enemies left in or outside the bosses' lair die instantly. This rang a bell in my mind that brought to mind a novel by Mr. Dean Koontz entitled _Midnight, which was a story about a research project seemingly similar to the one in SOD, though not conducted by the military. This experiment involved the injection of microcomputers into a living host's bloodstream, a nanobot that would enhance human mental power and enable them to change form pretty much at will. However either something went wrong with the experiment itself or the subjects' make-ups didn't agree with it. Those "converted" tended to regress to lower forms rather than evolve to higher ones, usually with deadly results. The mastermind behind this experiment was a man named Thomas Shaddock who, as a precaution in case one of his creatures turned against him, wore a small device that was perpetually linked to Son, the project's supercomputer. This device monitored Shaddock's pulse and would, if this signal were lost, transmit a message back to Son, which would in turn send a signal to the nanobots inside all the Converted Ones, triggering a chain reaction that killed them instantly. I would assume that the masterminds behind the experiment in SOD would have put a similar safety measure in place in case the experiment went wrong. That way a person would simply have to shut down the machine to prevent the outbreak from spreading. So here's the big question. What does everybody think? I posted this to GMA Games Talk a while back but the traffic over there seems to be extremely light these days. I guess we can call this the SOD Theories and Ideas thread, since that's basically what my intention was in creating it.
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