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The ELFs state that they can send back only the player's memory, into the hours before Lexington entered Persephone's orbit.

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The player's memories and knowledge are transferred back to his mind prior to the introductory events; the alternate and canonical storyline is then triggered. Having retained all memories from the 'original' timeline, the player alerts Commander Dana about UNS Dharma and injects himself with Hype.

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Once the Dharma is destroyed, the alien technology found on Persephone turns the tide of the war, allowing the Alliance to defeat the UN and repeal the technology limitation law. The ELFs are created and are welcomed by humans as equals.

In the new , Earth no longer exists. Humans now live on a Dyson Sphere which has been constructed by the two races with the humans living on the inside, and the ELFs on the outside. The game ends with player character contemplating about the meaning of human existence, and the ELFs grow to explore facets of the multiverse that are outside the realm of human understanding. There is a sequel paperback novel Mission Critical: The novel was published and distributed separately, telling a story that is separate, but with references to, events which occurred in the game.

The protagonist in the book is Lewis Tyrell, formerly an infantry captain who led a small unit of the 'Pathfinders'. In the story, the Pathfinders were once a United Nations special operations organization commissioned to steal prototype of the HYPE serum from an Alliance base in the Tehachapi mountains —but after the war they were disbanded, since the United Nations lost the war after the player's actions in the game.

From this perspective, the book details Tyrell's extensive postwar adventures. These begin after he is treated like an incorrigible criminal, and sent to serve out a life sentence in a prison located at Mare Stellatis and his attempts to escape. AC Lexington , the ship where the game takes place, makes a cameo. The protagonist will eventually visit Persephone and the time gate seen in the game, and names such as 60 Ophiuchi, Deneb Kaitos and the Erebus base known from the game, are also mentioned. However the Alliance who are now the government is now painted in a poor light, showing signs of the same totalitarianism and cruelty the UN was once accused of.

The book provides even more detail than the game about the history, society and politics of the universe. Mission Critical has a varied mixture of gameplay formats, including a large number of traditional object puzzles, Myst -style backstory deduction from fragments of evidence found about the ship, a couple of fiddle puzzles, and a real time strategy minigame, in which the player must defend the ship from two waves of enemy vessels.

Certain puzzles are timed, though no easy way is provided to gauge the amount of time that has passed. Battles are controlled from a tactical computer interface on the ship's bridge.

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There is an analogue difficulty slider which sets the battles to win themselves on the lowest setting and a speed control slider. The relatively low-ranking player character must get authorization from command to use the tactical system, then modify the ship's systems to enable it to be controlled single-handed, then complete several training missions of increasing difficulty and varying strategy before being able to defend the ship proper.

The attacks are timed and usually occur when the player is attempting to do something elsewhere on the ship, and he must scramble to the bridge and fight them off before returning to what he was working on. The bulk of the game consists of 3D renderings the entirety of the spaceship, and several other locations , presented in static screens with transitional animations between most areas.

Cutscenes are in full screen video with live actors. A few locations use a mixture of computer generated images and highly detailed, hand-painted backdrops, with some 2D animation effects to compensate for the lack of transition movies in these parts. The game utilizes stereo sampled voice and sound effects, music being provided like many games of the era via MIDI , although the FMV cutscenes have the music incorporated in the sampled soundtrack.

A Next Generation critic lauded the game's "fantastic graphics and edge-of-your-seat storyline", a combination which he said is rare in video games. He also found the purely mouse-driven interface to be simple and intuitive, but said that the game is "too easy and way too short. Trotter called Mission Critical "a big, sleek, handsome" product.

He summarized it as "a mature and thought-provoking adventure that plays the way a good science fiction novel reads. The editors wrote that it "proved once again that Legend is able to rewrite the adventure game genre to its liking whenever it wants to. A Gabriel Knight Mystery. In , a Computer Games Strategy Plus retrospective said of Mission Critical , "A terrific storyline, excellent puzzles and a superb tactical combat engine! He was in a basket on a very familiar front step in front of Number 4 Privet Drive.

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