HOUSE OF ASHES - NOOB GOES EXPLORING - Live With G4
10HOUSE OF ASHES - NOOB GOES EXPLORING - Live With G4
During the invasion of Iraq in May 2003, USAF Lt. Col. Eric King arrives at Camp Slayer in Baghdad to debrief a team of Force Recon Marines, who are led by CIA officer and Eric's distant wife Rachel King, about a mission to raid a village[c] in the Arabian Desert. Eric believes he has found a facility underneath the village that stores Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. The team includes Rachel's lover Sgt. Nick Kay and Nick's squad leader 1st Lt. Jason Kolchek. Other minor characters on the team are Cpl. Nathan Merwin (Alex Mallari Jr.),[d] LCpl. José "Joey" Gomez (Sammy Azero),[d] and Eric's assistant Dr. Clarice Stokes (Clare McConnell). Meanwhile, Iraqi Republican Guard soldier Lt. Salim Othman returns home and searches for his son Zain, carrying a birthday gift for him, but his commanding officer Cpt. Dar Basri (Nabeel El Khafif) forces Salim to intercept the raid led by Eric. Salim's squad ambushes the US troops when they arrive but several sinkholes plunge everybody into the ancient Akkadian temple, which is now buried beneath the sand.
The five protagonists are separated during the fall; inside the temple, both Iraqi and American forces are frequently attacked by the vampiric creatures, which include reanimated humans who succumbed to the parasite—the "Ancient One" is either Balathu or Kurum depending on player choices in the prologue. A similar fate befalls Joey, who was mortally wounded in the ambush.Clarice and Rachel can also catch the infection.Throughout the game, the protagonists learn about the temple's history and about the remains of a failed British 1940s archaeological expedition. Led by Randolph Hodgson and antiquarian Lady Bradshaw in a supposed search for Alexander the Great's tomb, the entire expedition team was wiped out after encountering and studying the monsters. Hodgson subsequently tried but failed to destroy the temple with dynamite.
As the surviving marines regroup, Salim explores the temple alone. He encounters a vampire and retrieves a metal bar from a fallen truck to use as a weapon against them. Rachel is separated from Eric after a stand-off with Dar, and falls into a blood-soaked pit. While the US forces search for ways to signal for help, Rachel comes across an ill Clarice, who was earlier abducted by the vampires. Rachel and Clarice climb out of the pit but due to Clarice's worsening health, Rachel must choose whether to abandon Clarice or continue accompanying her to medicate the illness. Rachel reunites with her allies in the temple and the group are violently assaulted by the vampires. As they escape from the vampires towards the catacombs below them, the Americans again encounter Dar,[e] who is now joined by Salim. Salim suggests they unite to fight the monsters chasing them, to which the others reluctantly agree. The vampires continue attacking the protagonists in the catacombs, killing Dar and separating everyone once more.
After the assault, Salim comes across Jason and decides to team up with him. At this point, Salim and Jason can choose whether to be cooperative-but-distrusting to one another or become close friends. Salim and Jason explore the temple, fighting creatures, and go deeper into the remains of the alien spaceship, where they find the partially preserved remains of either Balathu or Kurum. Nick, and possibly Rachel and Eric, follow afterward. Once the survivors flee from another close encounter with the creatures, they further explore the spaceship and learn about the vampires' origin.
The survivors talk about a gigantic nest of hibernating vampires they earlier found in the spaceship and agree to incinerate it with explosives. As the cocoons burn, the characters escape to the surface to await extraction by a rescue team. They escape the temple but a total solar eclipse allows the vampires to again attack the group until the eclipse ends and the dispatched team arrives. The player's choices and performances in QTEs determine how many of the protagonists survive. During a post-credits epilogue, at Camp Slayer, the located protagonists are transported—and interviewed if found alive—inside the base.[f] The US military,[58] planning to cover up the entire incident, begins analysis of the vampires.
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