Blood of the Cybermen (video game)

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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 GSO base, where Chisholm is attacked by a Cybermat. He explains to the Doctor that those infected by Cybermats slowly turn into Cyberslave. 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, Professor Elizabeth Meadows, 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 Meadows has vanished. The Doctor completes the cure, and then heads over to the tower to administer it to a partially converted Chisholm.

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The Cybership in the GSO dig site

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 Cyberslave, and the Doctor reaches the room containing the Cyberlord, and Meadows, who is revealed to be a Cyberslave. She 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 Cyberlord states that Meadows 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 new type Cybermat which have the "cyber head" logo that the Cybermen have on their chests appears. This is the first time Cybermats have appeared since Revenge of the Cybermen.
  • The Cybermats have the ability to change people into "robots".
  • This episode features a new Cyber-race called Cyberslaves, which 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 by a time storm and crashed in the Arctic Circle about 10,000 years ago.
  • This game takes place before The Pandorica Opens, but in that episode, Amy asks The Doctor what a Cyberman was. It is possible that something involving a Time Field crack may have happened to the events of Blood of the Cybermen and that the events were been wiped from existence.
  • The date is the 4th of May. When the Doctor accesses the laptop and looks up about Meadows, it says her daughter's birthday is 5th of May which the Doctor says is tomorrow.

References

  • Amy asks the Doctor whether he's seen the movie The Thing[1].
  • When Amy asks the Doctor if he'll be going into the vents, he says "Do I look I'm wearing a Bruce Willis vest?". A reference to the movie Die Hard.

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

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