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'''Global Agenda''' is a [[Third Person Shooter|Third Person online Shooter]] slash MMORPG by the Georgia-based (no, not THAT Georgia, the US one) Hi-Rez studios.
Set in the future of a fictional universe, where Britain never lost control of its American colonies. After [[World War Three]] destroyed much of the Earth, Avatar, a [[Robot Buddy|benevolent AI]] assisted in the creation of [[One World Order|The Commonwealth]], to prevent a similar war from occurring ever again. Unfortunately, by the time the actual game runs around, the Commonwealth has become [[Big Brother Is Watching|an Orwellian nightmare,]] [[The Empire|ruling much of the world]] through [[Cyberpunk|superior technology]] and vast amounts of disposable [[Mecha-Mooks]], with the few states free of its control left to rot in poverty under total embargo. You play a member of an [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand|admittedly fractious]] [[La Résistance|alliance of frontiersmen and dissidents]] trying to form a new state free from the corruption of the Commonwealth.
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The game features visceral combat involving four character classes with clearly distinguished roles and unique playstyles, classic MMO-style open zones with quest hubs and mob hives, four player co-op and ten player horde defense [[Player Versus Environment|PvE]] missions, ten-on-ten [[PvP]] brawls with standard gameplay modes as well as hex map warfare a-la [[Risk]] between player-controlled Agencies.
More game modes and content are being added to the game
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130120064433/http://www.globalagendagame.com/home.html You may find the game's home page here.]
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* [[BFG]] - All of the Assault's specialty weapons.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]
* [[Gatling Good]]▼
* [[Flaming Sword|Flaming Axe]] - Assault's unique melee weapon, the [[An Axe to Grind|Radiant Axe]]. Its edge is MADE of fire. It cuts things by ''burning through them''.
* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]] - The "Super Smash" [[Limit Break]].
▲* [[Gatling Good]]
* [[Implacable Man]] - A tank-spec Assault backed up by a competent beam medic and a robo packing a power station can turn into this. They just. Won't. Stop.
* [[Magikarp Power]] - For the first few levels, Assaults are underwhelmingly weak. Once you get enough skill points to invest into their class-specific massive health bonuses and unlock weapons of different types, they become the most demanded class on the battlefield.
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* [[Cool Sword]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]] - Dual Daggers. [[BFS|Which don't look like daggers at all]].
* [[Fragile Speedster]] - For higher level 'cons, [[Whoring]] out mass cooldown mods on Bionics device, which turns you into [[The Flash|Flash lite]] for ~15 seconds, is actually a very popular ''defensive'' strategy.▼
* [[Glass Cannon]] - When sniping, naturally.
* [[Hit and Run Tactics]] - Meleecons and Bombercons LIVE on this.
▲* [[Fragile Speedster]] - For higher level 'cons, [[Whoring]] out mass cooldown mods on Bionics device, which turns you into [[The Flash|Flash lite]] for ~15 seconds, is actually a very popular ''defensive'' strategy.
* [[Invisibility Cloak]] - With an added bonus of greatly increasing either movement speed or jump distance when it's active.
* [[Invisibility Flicker]] - Recons pop out of their [[Invisibility Cloak]] for a brief moment when tossing a bomb or using an ability.
* [[Land Mine Goes Click]] - Played by bombs that have a [[Time Bomb|3-sec time counter]] that conveniently appears above them prior to detonation. Averted with actual mines. They take a few seconds to arm after being dropped and will wait until there are no enemies in proximity before arming. After that the best you can hope for is seeing the mine and going [[Oh Crap]] the moment before it explodes.
* [[Laser Blade]]
* [[Sniper Duel]] - When snipercons get angry at each other.
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* [[Attack Drone]]
* [[Deployable Cover]] - Featured as both a common ability and a [[Limit Break]].
* [[Enemy
* [[The Engineer]] - of the combat variety, outfit with the most advanced weaponry and frontline equipment in the game's world.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]] - Mace'n'Shield in 1.3. Of note, any melee weapon can be used to block other melee attacks and doing so reflects the damage to the attacker. Mace'n'Shield also doubles it.
* [[Mecha-Mooks]] - Drones and turrets all qualify. In AvA there is also an item that deploys a squad of androids, typically given out to Robotics as they are only ones who can repair them.
* [[The Turret Master]] - The only class that can deploy turrets and keep them repaired.
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* [[
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]] - The CNS Trafalgar, on which agents can play a Scramble game type, carries a large complement of fighters.
* [[Allegedly Free Game]] - Since going [https://web.archive.org/web/20110411045006/http://forum.globalagendagame.com/gablog/index.php/2011/04/07/global-agenda-to-adopt-free-to-play-model/ free to play] in April 2011. A free player doesn't get loot drops from missions; instead he can only purchase loot using tokens. Buying Elite Agent status will give you loot drops from missions you win as well as doubling your XP, credits, and tokens.▼
▲* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted. The Commonwealth only started [[Gone Horribly Wrong|going off-kilter]] when Avatar was booted out and is actually rather [[New Technology Is Evil|Luddite]].
* [[Beehive Barrier]] - Anything that is a [[Deflector Shield]] usually comes in this
▲* [[Allegedly Free Game]] - Since going [http://forum.globalagendagame.com/gablog/index.php/2011/04/07/global-agenda-to-adopt-free-to-play-model/ free to play] in April 2011. A free player doesn't get loot drops from missions; instead he can only purchase loot using tokens. Buying Elite Agent status will give you loot drops from missions you win as well as doubling your XP, credits, and tokens.
* [[Body Armor as Hit Points]] - The 'n' type
▲* [[Beehive Barrier]] - Anything that is a [[Deflector Shield]] usually comes in this flavour. The Assault's class specific personal shields are an exception.
* [[Boss Banter]] - It can be hard to hear them over the chaos of the battle and its accompanying music, but almost all of the bosses and important enemies are quite chatty - even the Elite Assassins give away their presence by being unable to keep their mouths shut. ''"Waaaiiit for it..."''
▲* [[Body Armor as Hit Points]] - The 'n' type armour mods explicitly do this by increasing players' health by a small amount.
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]] - Guardians of all varieties. Except for the one case as a low level dungeon boss, it shows up as a special mook in all [[Player Versus Environment]] missions, especially raids. They have a large amount of health, have a ranged attack that at long ranges has a shotgun like effect of splattering an area with damage and being almost a death beam in shorter ranges. A second attack shoots a volley of three, high damage missiles that will kill anything under an assault in one barrage, shuts down turrets like an EMP and does this TWICE in succession. Add that they spawn far away, take forever to fly in close, and when they do they like to dodge behind obstructions to pop out, launch a volley of attacks and go behind cover again.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]] - Elite Agent status permanently doubles your XP, credits, and tokens. Boosters give you 2,000 free tokens for every day the booster is active and further double your XP, credits, and tokens.
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* [[Character Level]]
* [[Cherry Tapping]] - Deploying the Deconstructor, a Recon device that applies a small amount of damage every half second or so, can actually be a very valid method of dealing damage to a boss when timed correctly.
* [[Civil Warcraft]] - The entire idea of AvA hex warfare. Apparently [[La Résistance|La Resistance's]] idea of fighting [[The Empire]] is slaughtering each another over various factories and facilities.▼
* [[Competitive Balance]] - Every character has exactly the same base statistics, regardless of class, which increase only through skills (talents) rather than simply through
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] - What, you think that the most common mook is an [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|exemplary stormtrooper]]? Haha, good luck. In addition to improbable accuracy, a lot of common mechanics, like weapon damage faloff at long ranges, do not apply to mobs. The AI is simple enough to be exploited mercilessly, but if you slip up for even a second you won't be shown any mercy either. See tropes above for shining examples of how this game can make your life miserable.▼
* [[Cool Airship]] - In Demolitions, both teams have to blow up each another's.
** CNS Trafalgar.
** There's also that fancy dropship that you begin majority of both [[PvP]] and [[Player Versus Environment|PvE]] missions in.
* [[Crapsack World]] - There is a lot that makes the world of Global Agenda a nightmarish place to live. First, there is a looming threat of a possible, horrible virus outbreak that affects the nervous system that started in developing countries. The United Nations is disbanded, the world a segregation of political super powers and mega corporations that are trying to beat one another to the remaining few bits of Earth's energy resources seeing as most of the world's oil is used up. There was a third world war that killed off over half the globe's populations, left many areas desolate, radioactive ruins that no human can settle in. This of course had a wonderful effect on the Earth's climate, melting much of the polar ice and reducing the available land mass a great deal, some countries are completely submerged with Australia now being just a large island instead of a continent. What remains tends to be landscapes ravaged by war or are deserts with little vegetation. A power hungry AI created [[The Empire]] and banned the development of advanced robotics to not disturb its monopoly on power. The parts of the world not under [[The Empire]] or a corporation's control are akin to Fallout as bands of tribes fight one another for what resources there are. The dome, the player's home, is story wise to be besieged by [[The Empire]] and a hive minded collection of robots intent on taking all technology through lethal force to keep expanding outward.
▲* [[Civil Warcraft]] - The entire idea of AvA hex warfare. Apparently [[La Résistance|La Resistance's]] idea of fighting [[The Empire]] is slaughtering each another over various factories and facilities.
▲* [[Crapsack World]] - There is a lot that makes the world of Global Agenda a nightmarish place to live. First, there is a looming threat of a possible, horrible virus outbreak that affects the nervous system that started in developing countries. The United Nations is disbanded, the world a segregation of political super powers and mega corporations that are trying to beat one another to the remaining few bits of Earth's energy resources seeing as most of the world's oil is used up. There was a third world war that killed off over half the globe's populations, left many areas desolate, radioactive ruins that no human can settle in. This of course had a wonderful effect on the Earth's climate, melting much of the polar ice and reducing the available land mass a great deal, some countries are completely submerged with Australia now being just a large island instead of a continent. What remains tends to be landscapes ravaged by war or are deserts with little vegetation. A power hungry AI created [[The Empire]] and banned the development of advanced robotics to not disturb its monopoly on power. The parts of the world not under [[The Empire]] or a corporation's control are akin to Fallout as bands of tribes fight one another for what resources there are. The dome, the player's home, is story wise to be besieged by [[The Empire]] and a hive minded collection of robots intent on taking all technology through lethal force to keep expanding outward.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] - The official [http://www.youtube.com/user/HirezStudios#p/u/0/Yp9OOqL-xq8 launch trailer] pokes fun at this. The characters themselves don't seem any more or less human.
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* [[Cyborg]] - All the agents.
* [[Deflector Shield]] - All over the place.
* [[Do Well, But Not Perfect]]: The better you do, the worse your teammates will be in future matches due the matchmaker's balancing algorithm.
* '''[[The Empire|The Commonwealth!]]'''
* [[Escort Mission]] - Payload and Demolitions game modes, see above.
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* [[La Résistance]] - Your character is part of one.
* [[Limit Break]] - Morale Boosts. Every class gets a powerful 10-second buff that provides massive benefits to their entire team. This buff can only be activated when the Morale gauge fills up, which happens after <s> taking, dealing or healing enough damage</s> actively participating in combat for a lengthy amount of time. Apt usage may turn any battle around.
* [[Mini-Mecha]] - The Vandal robot, available in several modifications for AvA matches, for Robotics to use as their [[Limit Break]] and as the central objective of Demolitions game mode.▼
* [[Mecha-Mooks]]
* [[Meganekko]] - The Think Tank boss.
▲* [[Mini-Mecha]] - The Vandal robot, available in several modifications for AvA matches, for Robotics to use as their [[Limit Break]] and as the central objective of Demolitions game mode.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]] - It's not uncommon to see corridors that double as firing ranges, ''with warning signs''.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]] - The game started out as this, but has been remedied with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511122603/http://globalagendagame.com/TheGame_BackStory_Pre.html rich backstory.]
* [[No Scope]] - The game actively encourages you to avoid this playstyle.
** The standard-issue SMG that everyone gets used to have a massive 30% damage bonus when scoped. It has since been replaced with a less powerful 30% range bonus.
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* [[Respawn Point]] - One is always static, the other is a Respawn Beacon that you can move anywhere on the map to gain tactical advantage.
* [[Screw You, Elves]] - '''No Elves''' is the game's motto. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFKDzW0qdg Observe.]
* [[Short-Range Shotgun]] - Played straight. Shotguns actually used to have decent stopping power before, represented by knockback on target, but a patch reduced it to be barely
* [[Socketed Equipment]] - All equipment (armor, weapons, offhands) can be given additional stats using mods.
* [[Sticky Bomb]] - Recon's Sticky Poison Mines and Venom Bomb, Assault's AfterShock [[Grenade Launcher]].
* [[Super Soldier]] - Lore states that Super Agents, such as the ones you play and the [[Elite Mooks]] in [[Player Versus Environment]] missions are the results of the Commonwealth [[Playing with Syringes]] to make a smarter, faster, and stronger spy. Obviously, your characters are the ones who's [[Brainwashing]] wasn't completed properly.
▲* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] - What, you think that the most common mook is an [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|exemplary stormtrooper]]? Haha, good luck. In addition to improbable accuracy, a lot of common mechanics, like weapon damage faloff at long ranges, do not apply to mobs. The AI is simple enough to be exploited mercilessly, but if you slip up for even a second you won't be shown any mercy either. See tropes above for shining examples of how this game can make your life miserable.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - Tac-Nukes are available for use in AVA combat, guaranteed to sterilize at least half the map. You can bring more than one.
** Recons get a smaller version as a morale boost. It doesn't instantly kill players most of the time, but it does have a huge blast area, instantly destroys most mechanicals, and has a very long stun
* [[Tron Lines]]: Oh so very much.
* [[Urban Warfare]] - Any of the missions taking place in Commonwealth Prime qualify.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] - You can slaughter innocent workers on many levels. There is no reward, but most players don't think <s> twice</s> at all before pulling the trigger.
** It's just a safety mechanism, really. When everything you encounter is capable of [[Nintendo Hard|ending you within a single second]], you don't want to take chances.
*** Most times, people do not even know of their presence! With rooms full of
** That, or they are just [[The Berserker|too concentrated on killing anything that moves]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|makes odd sounds or looks at them funny]].
** There is a small subversion with the maintenance droids. They look like hovering golf balls with mechanical pincers. All they do is float around, and spout out things such as "Please don't shoot me" or "The commonwealth is your friend!" Most probably do not know of how insidious those flying golf balls are until they encounter a room with several of them and elite mooks or fight the level's boss. The bloody things heal EVERYTHING, including one another. After sometime, everyone learns to kill them on sight unless they want to have the various mobs run away to get healed up and back into the fight at full health.
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