The Eternity Clock (video game)
The Eternity Clock is the first of a three-part series of games for Playstation 3, PS Vita, and PC. It can be played by one or two players. The one-player option switches between the characters of the Eleventh Doctor and River Song, while the two-player option has both characters playing simultaneously.
Synopsis
Rogue time corridors are opening all over London, connecting Elizabethan, Victorian, Modern Day and future London. It is up to the Doctor and River Song to investigate and close these corridors - a process not made easy by the sudden appearance of Cybermen, Daleks, Silurians and the Silence throughout history!
Plot
Onboard the TARDIS, the Doctor is struggling to navigate through a temporal maelstrom, and manages to land the ship on Earth. However, the TARDIS appears in a bad way, and the ship's instruments confirm that the time storm encompasses the entire planet. The Doctor exits to find himself in the Bank of England in the modern day, but the TARDIS almost immediately vanishes in a flash of light. Now trapped, he is forced to search for a way out. Eventually, on the advice of a psychic paper message from his future self, the Doctor uses a stack of gold bars to smash through a weak grate into the Victortian-era tunnels below the bank. He finds a perception filter, which he recognises as his own work. He disables it, revealing a sewer entrance, however, the passage below is blocked by a gate requiring a person on each side to open.
At the Stormcage Containment Facility in 5145, River Song recieves a phone call telling her the Doctor needs her help. She proceeds to escape from the Facility, and once clear of its tesla binding field, she uses her vortex manipulator to travel to modern day Earth, where she releases the stranded Doctor. The pair proceed through the old tunnels, looking to reach the surface, however, they soon encounter a large number of Cyberman storage units, which begin releasing their occupants. The Doctor and River flee through the tunnel system, eventually reaching a Bank of England lift that lets them enter the tunnels of the London Underground. The Cybermen pursue them, but the pair are eventually able to seal them off behind a set of large doors. Here, in an area devastated by a gas pipe explosion, the Doctor and River encounter an encampment of humans taking refuge from the Cybermen on the streets above, who are converting people en masse. Before the pair can head for the surface however, the Cybermen find a way into the area, through more train tunnels. River and the Doctor work together to electrify the rails, blocking their access.
Ascending to the streets, the duo find the streets empty, and nearby is a dormant time corridor, caused by the raging time storm. With the construction site one way blocked by road collapse from the gas explosion, the pair proceed into an adjacent office building, where they find another time corridor, which the Doctor identifies as leading to 1892. Finding the heavily guarded Cyberfactory ship on the other side of the office, the Doctor formulates a plan - he will travel through the time corridor, which has suddenly activated, and alter the plans for the gas pipes in the past so that the explosion takes place elsewhere. With the road traversable, they can then access the building site, use its crane to get on top of the office, and then drop down to the unguarded Cyberfactory.
The Doctor travels through the corridor using River's vortex manipulator, and emerges in a textile mill. He makes his way outside and then underground, spotting a mysterious figure dash along the rooftops on the way. Beneath the streets, he finds the under-construction pipes, and alters the plans accordingly, before returning through another time corridor to the present. Meanwhile, in the present, the Cybermen have entered the office block to investigate the energy from the corridor's use, but their forced entry activates the building's security measures, trapping River inside. However, she is able to trick the Cyberman patrols into breaking open the office's security booth, where she deactivates the barriers, allowing her to head outside. She and the Doctor meet up and ascend the construction site, using a girder held by the crane to cross onto the office's roof. With the Cybermen still inside, the Doctor and River are free to to return to street level in a window-cleaning cradle and break into the Cyberfactory, with the intention of disabling the Cyber-Planner inside.
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Cast
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References
- Many episodes, events and controversies central to Doctor Who are referenced either through dialog or connected to collectible items, including:
- DW: An Unearthly Child
- DW: The Feast of Steven
- DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians
- DW: Destiny of the Daleks
- The UNIT Dating Conundrum
- DW: Doctor Who (1996)
- DW: Rose
- DW: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
- DW: The Age of Steel
- DW: 42
- DW: Silence in the Library
- DW: The Stolen Earth
- DW: The Eleventh Hour
- DW: The Big Bang
- DW: The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
- DW: Closing Time
- When the Doctor recovers his sonic screwdriver from the grip of an angel statue in 1892, he tells the statue not to move.
Story notes
Background
The original release date was to be in February 2012, but it was pushed back several times until it was finally released 23 May 2012 for Playstion 3. A version of the game will also be downloadable for PC and on 13 June 2012 there is to be a release for PS Vita.
Promotion
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Rumours
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Production errors
- River Song's diary, the pages of which are collected throughout the game, detail River interacting with the Doctor's previous incarnations without them knowing who she was (she has entries describing Doctors one through nine), but in DW: Silence in the Library, she states the Tenth Doctor looks the youngest she's ever seen him. She could be referring to this incarnation's youthful appearance - the earlier incarnations, though technically younger, looked older due to the unpredictable nature of regeneration.
- In DW: The Time of Angels, River tells the Doctor that she always knows who he is because she has pictures of all his incarnations, but they're not in the right order, so she has trouble knowing the order in which they came. Her diary, however, has incarnations one through nine in the correct order.
- At one point, the Doctor refers to the Eternity Clock by name before that name has been established by River.
- During the Stormcage segment, the PA consistently refers to River as Dr. Song, but she refers to herself as Professor Song in her solo Elizabethan segment; however, this may simply be self-aggrandisement, as she knows from the Doctor in DW: The Time of Angels that she will eventually hold the title. Alternatively, she may have obtained the qualification since DW: The Wedding of River Song, but the Stormcage staff may not be aware of this.
Continuity
- The first hat the Doctor collects is a fez. When the hat is clicked, the Doctor says "Don't worry, I won't let the bad lady near you," referencing the way Amy Pond and River Song treated his fez in DW: The Big Bang.
- One of the hats that can be collected is the helmet that the Tenth Doctor wore when he was possessed by Torajii. When the hat is clicked on, the Eleventh Doctor jokes, "Burn with me! Burn with me!" (DW: 42)
- One of the hats The Doctor collects is Captain Jack Harkness's uniform cap, The Doctor did say it looked better on Captain Jack. (DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances).
- In the pages of River Song's diary the player collects, there is an entry entitled "An Unearthly Mess", which apparently occurs before the events of DW: An Unearthly Child. In it, River recalls the First Doctor catching her snooping around I.M. Foreman's junk yard; when she hears a young woman calling for her grandfather, she takes off, writing "That's a conversation I'm not yet ready for!"
- Two of the hats that can be collected reference UNIT. There is a soldier's red beret and a UNIT officers' cap; when this hat is clicked the Doctor muses how much fun it was working with UNIT in "the seventies, or was it the eighties?"
- One of the Doctor's hats to be collected is a Santa Claus cap; when the hat is clicked, the Doctor says "And a Merry Christmas to all of you at home!", the fourth wall-breaking line from DW: The Feast of Steven.
- As soon as the Doctor and River penetrate the Silurian base, the first thing the Doctor remarks is "Oh, look! Rocks!"; directly referencing the same sarcastic comment the Fourth Doctor said in DW: Destiny of the Daleks.
- One of the Doctor's hats to be collected is the Fifth Doctor's panama hat; the Doctor says it still smells like Spectrox antitoxin from DW: The Caves of Androzani.
- River's diary has descriptions of the first nine incarnations of the Doctor. She has apparently traveled back in time and spied on them; she will not meet the Tenth Doctor until DW: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
- River uses her Hallucinogenic lipstick, first seen in DW: The Time of Angels; the Sonic blaster, left in the TARDIS by Jack Harkness in DW: The Doctor Dances; River had it in DW: Silence in the Library; and her vortex manipulator, which she obtained in DW: The Pandorica Opens.
- When The Doctor and River encounter an army of Cybermen, The Doctor yells to River, "Basically, run!" This is a throwback to the same line that the Eleventh Doctor first used in DW: The Eleventh Hour when he was threatening the Atraxi about leaving Earth. Here, however, the situation is reversed, and instead of a threat, he's warning River that they need to get away.
Timeline
- Given that the Doctor and River are already aware of the existence of the Silence, River is still imprisoned in Stormcage, there is a reference to Bitey the Cybermat, and Amy and Rory are not seen, it is safe to date The Eternity Clock as taking place between DW: The Wedding of River Song and DW: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
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