Meaning that up until the time he enters the cryo-tube, there had been a time loop where Joe, instead of entering the cryo-tube, somehow escaped Archeon and carried the virus to the outside world and infected everyone (then presumably died of the virus like everyone else).

I enjoyed the game a lot, I thought it was great, I finished it in 2 days because I liked setting and story, but as I described, I was left behind puzzled.įrom what I remember, Joe was Patient Zero (as he read at some point, in the lab, or the police dpt. Maybe the ending does justice to Joe as a character, because he was portrayed as more of a 'simple' guy and he wouldn't suddenly start with deep philosophical, let alone theoretical physics questions, but the way in which it ended had me waiting for some sort of twist or maybe after the ending credits addition, that would shed some more light on things or even sort of shock the player. Or is the destruction even something that has nothing to do with the time travels and happens anyway at some piont, just after the 2012 Joe ended up in and Joe - like everyone else - is still going to die and just doesn't expect it now, since he seemed to believe (did he?) everything is okay now? Lambert is still sitting in his swamp house and works on the time travelling device he will be giving to Joe at the end of his journey, but then again, how is Joe supposed to see a destroyed future during his travels, if everything turned out fine? For all I know, with the ending we got, Dr. I overall just don't understand what destroyed the future we often saw during our travels.

Since most scientists who worked at Archon obviously survived then, how come none of them ever talked or continued their work elsewhere? How could it have been possible that the virus ever could have had anything to do with the destroyed future, since the story obviously always ended with Joe freezing himself and thus preventing infection of anyone else? If the virus Joe brought back from the future was so easily curable (that's what the doctor said in 2012), what was it that destroyed the future we saw during Joe's travels? And why did a normal 2012 exist, although Joe didn't do anything to fix the problem that destroyed the future?

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