Blood of the Cybermen (video game)
Blood of the Cybermen is the second 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
The Doctor and Amy materialize in the Arctic - where members of a survey team are turning from flesh to metal and digging something sinister from under the ice that's been waiting thousands of years - an army of Cybermen!
Plot
Present Day, Earth. The Doctor and Amy arrive in the Arctic, where they find a crashed skidoo, and discover an unconscious rider at the bottom of an ice cliff. The Doctor and Amy rescue the rider, who tells them that their base has been invaded. The Doctor, Amy and the rider, Chisholm, then travel by TARDIS to the CSO base, where Chisholm is attacked by a Cybermat. He explains to the Doctor that those infected by Cybermats slowly turn into Cyberslaves. Chisholm then locks himself in a tower to prevent him from attacking the Doctor and Amy.
The Doctor and Amy head towards the main dome in search of other survivors, and are confronted by a Cyberslave. After defeating it, they head into the dome and discover the director of the project, who is working on a cure. The Doctor and Amy then go in search of a Cybermat in order to get a sample of the virus to work from. When they return, they discover that the director has vanished. The Doctor completes the cure, and then heads over to the tower to administer it to a partially converted Chisholm.
The Doctor and Amy head down a lift to a series of tunnels, leading them to a large Cybership. Heading up to the top, Amy is captured by the Cyberslaves, and the Doctor reaches the room containing the Cyberleader, and the director, who is revealed to be a Cyberslave. The director threatens that unless the Doctor revives the Cybermen, Amy will be the first of a new race of Cybermen. The Doctor proceeds in reviving the Cybermen, and succeeds. The newly revived Cyberleader states that the director is no longer necessary and may now be deleted, and shoots her. He attempts to shoot the Doctor, but the Doctor manages to escape, and heads over to the Cyber-conversion area where Amy is being held. Freeing Amy, they then proceed back to the Cybercommand area via a different route. The Doctor then reverses the revival process, and states that it should be a "good half hour before the thing blows." A Cyber voice is then heard stating that it is 2 minutes until total meltdown, and the Doctor, Amy, and Chisholm make an escape. Back outside the dome, the Doctor states to Chisholm that the Cyberslaves should revert as the virus has been destroyed in the process. The Doctor and Amy then leave in the TARDIS. A group of Cybermen stand still in the snow, and a mechanical movement, just like that of a marching Cyberman, is heard.
Cast (Voices)
Credits
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Story notes
- This game was incorrectly entitled Winter of Terror.
- A concept picture shows 2 Cybermats which have the cyber head logo that the Cyberman have on their chests.This is the first time Cybermats have appeared since Revenge of the Cybermen
- The Cybermats according to the script extracts have the ability to change people into "robots"
- There will be a new Cyber-race called Cyberslaves are converted humans.
- The Cybermen in this story are from our universe resembling the Cybus Cybermen but lacking the logo. It is later revealed that a Cybership was damaged bya time storm and crashed in the Arctic Circle about 10,000 years ago.
Promotion
As part of the promotion of this episode a live talk with Phil Ford and Nicholas Briggs was broadcast via the BBC website on the 22nd June 2010. Fans were encouraged to write in with questions and read along with two exclusive script extracts.
Continuity
The Cybermats return. They were last seen in DW: Revenge of the Cybermen.
Timeline
- Blood of the Cybermen occurs after The Big Bang
- Blood of the Cybermen occurs before the 2010 Christmas special.
References
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External links
- The Adventure Games at the BBC Doctor Who site.
