Tuesday 22 March 2011

"Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!"

The quote I have chosen comes from the hit Valve title 'Half Life' released in 1998.
You play as Gordon Freeman, a well known theoretical physicist  who happens to be pretty handy with a gun!
When an experiment goes wrong and a portal is opened up to an alien world, allowing unknown numbers of alien life to enter the world, Gordon is forced to fight his way out of the Science lab.

The quote comes from the non-player characters in the game. The lab is populated with scientists who all say different humorous quotes. One of the reasons Half life did so well was its light hearted nature. The scientists run away scared. Some scream, some say, "Thanks god you're here Gordon" and other say the line, "Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!" I have also noticed that they look quite a bit like Albert Einstein.

My initial idea is to use the quote in either a satirical way by having famous scientists who are known for designing weapons saying it, or to use it to create a new science super hero, similar to gordon freeman.

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