TARDIS (video game)

TARDIS
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	The Entity Chronomites
Main setting:	The TARDIS London, Earth, after the 23rd century
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Wales Interactive
Developer:	Sumo Digital
Writer:	James Moran
Release details
Platform:	PC Mac
Genre:	Graphic Adventure
Release date:	27th August 2010 (PC & Mac)

TARDIS is the third of the Adventure Games, a series of four games in which the player have the ability to play as the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

Synopsis

With the TARDIS caught in a time riptide, it's up to Amy to save the day or leave the Doctor trapped in the void forever. Meanwhile, a dangerous entity is roaming the TARDIS corridors and it hasn't been fed for a very long time...

Cast

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• The Entity - Sarah Douglas

References

• The TARDIS has a Drawing Room, Sun Room and a Lift.
• Things seen in the Drawing Room include:

• The Fourth Doctor's scarf.
• A cricket ball.
• The Master 's laser screwdriver.
• A Dalek eye stalk.
• A Cyberman chest plate.
• A fob watch.
• An Ood translation sphere.
• A Time Lord staff.
• The Journal of Impossible Things.
• A sonic blaster.
• A Sycorax staff.
• The Chronon blocker.
• A recorder.
• Elizabeth X's mask.
• The Book of the Weeping Angels.
• A gramophone
• A map of Medieval Venice.
• A distress beacon.

• Amy and the Doctor are both bad at charades.
• King Kong and Tarzan are mentioned.
• The two red levers on the console reset the TARDIS and extend the air shell.
• The drawing room is half a mile down the corridor, left, then right, then right again, then the third right, past a weird swirly thing, left, then the other left, through the sun room, past a green door, right, along a wall until it becomes slimey, down a lift to the third floor and straight ahead.
• The Entity says "I must feed". This is very similar to something the Ood said in The Impossible Planet.
• The panels of the TARDIS console are named according to function; these are the "Fabrication", "Mechanical", "Communications", "Diagnostic", "Navigation" and "Helm" panels. Many of the individual devices on the panels are named or used.
• The cloister bell is heard.

Story notes

• In a video posted on the BBC Doctor Who website, Karen Gillan promoted the game and announced the alien was called the Entity.
• It has been confromed that the cliffhanger at the end of TARDIS will lead on to the fourth Adventure Game, called Shadows of Vashta Nerada
• The day before TARDIS was released to download, a story was posted on the Doctor Who website called Wish You Were Here, acting as a prelude to TARDIS.
• This is the first story to actually teach the viewer/player how to fly the TARDIS and what everything on the console actually does.

Promotion

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Continuity

• Items from the previous games appear such as the Dalek Eyestalk, Chronon Blocker, Distress Beacon and a Cyberman chestplate. (VG: City of the Daleks, Blood of the Cybermen)
• The scene where the Entity breaks out of its small prison is very similar to the scene in the TV movie where the Master does the same. (DW: Doctor Who)
• The laser screwdriver is attached to the console. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
• Amy uses the zigzag plotter. (DW: The Lodger)
• The Doctor and Amy both notice that he is rambling. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
• The Doctor refers to the TARDIS as a female again. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen et al)
• The Doctor refers to bad things happening at Brighton Beach, and Paris. (DW: The Leisure Hive, City of Death)
• The Doctor has a Gramophone in the Drawing Room. (DW: Doctor Who)
• The Entity is stored in a flask, much like Fenric. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

Timeline

• TARDIS occurs after WC: Wish You Were Here
• TARDIS occurs before VG: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada