It has some interesting apps that she can use to hack into various systems on the ship or get through encrypted door locks. She also has a handheld device that appears to be a distant descendant of today’s iPad. As is common in single protagonist action games, Kate also is in nearly constant contact with an expository voice to explain what’s going on and to periodically provide advice and clever quips. In fact, the lower decks are awash with sea water and rife with ruptured gas pipes that are prone to bursts of extremely dangerous fire. Her job will be complicated by the fact that the attack by the Neo-Malthusians as caused quite a bit of damage to the ship. You play the part of Kate Wilson, a systems engineer who will be tasked with saving the ship from the bad guys. Their alternative is to attack and hijack the capitalists’ floating city, presumably having failed in having the government co-opt it through burdensome legislative regulations or extra-judicial maneuvering. As with the radical moonbats that suggest the same type of solution today, they themselves are fundamentally lacking in the desire to lead by example. The Neo-Malthusians are having none of that they believe the problem can be more readily solved by exterminating most of the world’s population. The resulting famine and poverty have caused an irreparable radicalization of the diametrically opposed capitalists and environmentalists, the latter being cast as ‘Neo-Malthusians.’ The capitalists have retreated to a massive ship-borne city where they research nano-technology means for converting oceanic salt water to fresh water. Not surprisingly for a game called ‘Hydrophobia’, water plays a central role in the story the Malthusian catastrophe that is the basis of the game is a global lack of fresh water. The story is set in the mid 21st century at roughly the period when the effects of the profligate and mostly unfettered excesses of the late 20th to early 21st centuries have brought about a “Malthusian catastrophe.” I’ll save you a trip to Wikipedia: A Malthusian catastrophe is a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production, energy production, or any of the other vital needs for preserving humanity. As I read through the back story for Hydrophobia: Prophecy, a new release from Dark Energy Digital, Ltd., I couldn’t help thinking that the premise could provide bountiful fodder for those inclined to look for allegories applicable to the contemporaneous political and sociological rifts we deal with today.
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