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 where the player will 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...

Plot

The Doctor and Amy are talking in the TARDIS. Amy is saying that the Doctor can never have a holiday without trouble. Suddenly the whole TARDIS shakes and the Doctor is thrown out of the doors, and is surrounded by Chronomites (aliens from the void). Amy sends the Doctor oxygen so he can tell her what to do. Amy goes to the Doctor's study, and when she is there she accidently releases an alien, by breaking a glass bottle, this alien is called the Entity. The Doctor and Amy are seperated by a thousand years, and Amy is beginning to get taken over by the Entity. The Doctor and Amy bring themselves back together, where they encounter the Entity, who wants to feed on the universe. The Doctor sends the Entity outside the TARDIS promising him time energy to feed on. Then they steer the TARDIS away after having a look around and continue with their adventures.

Cast and characters

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

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.
• The story, presumably, leads directly into the fourth and final Adventure game.
• 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.

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 is used.
• 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.

Promotion

to be added

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 Wish You Were Here
• TARDIS occurs before