So the futuristic avian flu spread in the 70s and killed everyone. So when Joe was dewed up with his futuristic avian flu strain, it could be cured fairly quickly.īut when Joe and his futuristic avian flu strain went back to the 70s, when even the regular avian flu had neither been found nor cured yet, the medical scientists of that time were overwhelmed and could not find a cure fast enough. Having been found in the 90s, a cure already existed in 2012. When avian flu came around in the 90s, a cure was found pretty fast. Medicine in the 70s was not as advanced as it was in the 90s. Then finally how is Frank trapped behind some over grown roots? It looks like he's been stuck there for years (for the roots to grow over the entance) but he should have just arrived just like Joe? And if he'd been there for years he probably be in worse shape (and have a beard). I know in the diaries in Lambert's house there is mentioned that they lost two guys, are these those same guys? But where's his time machine? Or did he have a device like Joe's? Then the guy in the wall? Frank mentions that as you get futher out into the future it becomes less accurate, so presumably he materialized in the wall (ouch) instead of open space. Exactly how he died and why he couldn't come back is hazy. They when he was sent they took the precaution of giving him a gas mask so presumably they already knew about the virus. So presumably the guy in the cyro room was in that one and he'd jumped forward to a few hundred year prior to Joe's arrival. The part I didn't quite get is who where the two dead guys in the far future and where did they come from? There's a "more advanced" time travel device there that Joe says has been there for a while. Which means that when they "de-frosted" him, they injected him (and the others) with you typical battery of vaccines and the works, and since it's 2012 when they de-frost him, they already have the cure to that particular virus. Basically, the game is about breaking the loop and changing the future in the end.Īs for the virus itself, I think the Doc at the end mentions something about it being a strain of the avian-flu they discovered in the 90's or something. The point is that at the end of the game, Joe realizes he's probably lived through this a bunch of times, which is why he tries a hail-mary and enters the cryo-tube instead. Meaning that up until the time he enters the cryo-tube, there had been a time loop where Joe, instead of entering the cryo-tube, somehow escaped Archeon and carried the virus to the outside world and infected everyone (then presumably died of the virus like everyone else). I enjoyed the game a lot, I thought it was great, I finished it in 2 days because I liked setting and story, but as I described, I was left behind puzzled.įrom what I remember, Joe was Patient Zero (as he read at some point, in the lab, or the police dpt.
Maybe the ending does justice to Joe as a character, because he was portrayed as more of a "simple" guy and he wouldn't suddenly start with deep philosophical, let alone theoretical physics questions, but the way in which it ended had me waiting for some sort of twist or maybe after the ending credits addition, that would shed some more light on things or even sort of shock the player. Or is the destruction even something that has nothing to do with the time travels and happens anyway at some piont, just after the 2012 Joe ended up in and Joe - like everyone else - is still going to die and just doesn't expect it now, since he seemed to believe (did he?) everything is okay now? Lambert is still sitting in his swamp house and works on the time travelling device he will be giving to Joe at the end of his journey, but then again, how is Joe supposed to see a destroyed future during his travels, if everything turned out fine? For all I know, with the ending we got, Dr.
I overall just don't understand what destroyed the future we often saw during our travels. Since most scientists who worked at Archon obviously survived then, how come none of them ever talked or continued their work elsewhere? How could it have been possible that the virus ever could have had anything to do with the destroyed future, since the story obviously always ended with Joe freezing himself and thus preventing infection of anyone else?
If the virus Joe brought back from the future was so easily curable (that's what the doctor said in 2012), what was it that destroyed the future we saw during Joe's travels? And why did a normal 2012 exist, although Joe didn't do anything to fix the problem that destroyed the future?
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