Games themed around cloning?


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I'm doing a thing for university and I was exploring gaming that deals with, explores, or the major theme is reproductive cloning. So far I've come across Cloning Clyde, The Swapper and some online flash games. I'm more interested in the cloning backstories of the games, the mechanics of the cloning, ethical issues around cloning etc. Searching for 'cloning games' yields predictably dubious results. Happy to know about any genre, indie, homebrew, visual novels etc etc.

Cheers.
 
This is an interesting question... I know a lot of movies about the subject, but not games... there are a lot about androids or synthetic reproductions that maybe could have a similar ethical issues
 
Space Quest 2... Well, it doesn't strictly fit the brief, but Vohaul's plot is based around clones :p
 
clone soldiers in Star Wars and F.E.A.R., there is a cloning facility in Deus Ex Invisible War IIRC, respawns and travel work by cloning in EVE Online, Krogan cloning on Virmire in Mass Effect, Stealth Inc. 2: a game of clones, and it feels like I'm missing a better example
 
Isn't umbrella corp using cloning in the Resident Evil stories? I've not played them much, but in the movies I can think they were using monsters in tanks in one of two of them (I've never gone out of my way to watch one of those films, but they're on TV quite a lot), but that may just be a creature feature trick, and of course they never go into the ethics of cloning in those games, since they're just monsters to be freaked out by.
 
I found some other candidates -

Resident Evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Wong

Agent 47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_47

MGS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Snake

Metroid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_(Metroid)

and Cloned drone in the danger zone http://clonedroneinthedangerzone.com/

Deus Ex and Mass Effect are useful, Game of Life while technically cloning is binary fission so a form of asexual reproduction which plants do all day long. I'm writing about the depiction of cloning in science fiction, like @PowerGod said, plenty of stuff in film/TV/literature but I wanted to find out how gaming has used the subject.

Cheers.
 
I thought about things and the most intresting use of clones for me is in EVE. If you fail to keep your clone updated for money and let it die by being caught in your escape pod you can actually lose skills. Depending on how you play you can put implants worth billions of ISK into a clone to make it super effective. Back in the day a clone with a full Rogue implant set flying a Vagabond was basically impossible to catch by a camp of faction fitted Rapiers. We had to reinvent the wheel and shoot them down with crazy high range and tracking speed Tempests and damnit now I'm rambling.
But if sombody kills your clone in 0.0 space or you run into a smartbomb all that is lost. Cheap clones OTOH would be used for Himmelfahrtskommandos.
And you can put bounties on peoples' clones.
 
All good stuff, thanks. Funny how clones, being replicas of people (or whatever character), are considered dispensable. Use them to complete the level then f*%k 'em.
 
I think all the players in Unreal Tournament are clones, just like Team Fortress 2 and Devastation.
Didn't find any credible sources to back this up though.
 
sm0kew0n said:
All good stuff, thanks. Funny how clones, being replicas of people (or whatever character), are considered dispensable. Use them to complete the level then f*%k 'em.
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Hmmm...not quite clones, but the same is true of lemmings.
 
The "lemmings" comparison could be adopted for almost every RTS around too (see Zerg rush)
 
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