Cyberswine

Cyberswine is an Adventure Video Game that was released in 1997. It was developed and published by Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc., for the PC. It is a Video Game Adaptation of an Australian comic book with the same name.

It is Cyberswine's first day on the job as a police officer in the CyberCity Police Department. The Chief assigns Lieutenant Sarah Lee as Cyberswine's partner and mentor. Lee is not thrilled at the idea of partnering up with a cyborg pig, but she is on probation. Naturally, things get complicated for both of them as they start their first patrol....

If you would like to see a playthrough of the game, please see the playthrough by ChipCheezumLPs. If you would like to see a different play-through of the game, please see the playthrough by Geographica.

This game contains examples of:

• Adaptation Displacement: Cyberswine started out as an Australian comic book. The odds are very good that you will be more familiar with the video game than the comic book.
• Adaptation Dye Job: In the original comic, Lieutenant Sarah Lee had red hair. In this video game adaptation, her hair colour is changed to blonde.
• Adaptation Name Change: In the Australian comic “Issue One”, Cyberswine's name is George Porser. In this game, his name is George Fox.
• Bald of Awesome: Cyberswine is bald, and he is awesome when it comes to combat.
• Bald of Evil: Vice-President Bryce Gets has no hair on his head, and he is evil as all get out.
• Big Bad: Vice-President Bryce Gets. He is behind every bad thing that happens in this story.
• Bittersweet Ending: On the bitter side, Lieutenant Sarah Lee is implied to be dead, along with a huge percentage of the human race, and Cyberswine is either dead or deactivated. On the sweet side, Vice-President Bryce Gets, the scientist and the Cyberbird are implied to be dead and their plans have been completely foiled. Also, Zak, his sister and the street people are still alive, and they will do their best to restart their society.
• Deadpan Snarker: Depending on your choices, Cyberswine can engage in this. In fact, Lieutenant Sarah Lee can engage in this too.
• Disappeared Dad: Lieutenant Sarah Lee mentions her mother and wants to check up on her when the disease starts spreading. She says nothing about her father, which would indicate that he is either dead or divorced.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: When Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee find out about the disease killing people as well as killer robots, they hurry back to the police station to get backup. Unfortunately, it turns out that all the police are dead from either the disease or gunshots.
• Everything's Better With Chickens: Averted. The robot chicken that appears close to the end of the game is a monstrous killing machine, and there is almost nothing funny about it.
• Evil Genius: The scientist working for Vice-President Bryce Gets. He is the one who transferred George Fox's brain into a pig's body before making him a cyborg. He came up with a personality eraser which was used on Lieutenant Sarah Lee.
• Expy: Cyberswine is basically what Robocop would be if he had his brain transferred into a pig's body and then made into a cyborg. The tagline even says, “Part cop. Part machine. Full boar hero.”
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The scientist working for Vice-President Bryce Gets. He wears glasses and is willing to transfer human brains into animal bodies and erase people's personalities without a qualm.
• Greater Need Than Mine: After Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee crash their ship, Lee ends up with a broken rib. Cyberswine wants to take her to a hospital, but she insists that they have to try to help other people first.
• Handicapped Badass: After Lieutenant Sarah Lee and Cyberswine crash their AV, Sarah reveals that she has a broken rib. While it makes running difficult for her, she is able to fight and shoot down NetCop robots.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Lieutenant Sarah Lee is against taking the Healthex vaccine because she feels that she will lose her edge if she relies on things like that. Yes, she was an anti-vaxxer before the term was even coined in 2009!
• Insult Backfire: Close to the end of the game, Cyberswine will blow up Future Towers with everyone in it to stop Vice-President Bryce Gets. Bryce will say, “You animal!” But Cyberswine will simply say, “Yes, I am.”
• It's All About Me: Tech Prototype Courier Droid. He changed his programming and got smart. Unfortunately, he also became arrogant and clearly thinks that he can do whatever he wants without consequences. Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee beg to differ.
• Jerkass: Tech Prototype Courier Droid. He starts off by spray-painting the word “PIG” on Cyberswine and leading them on a chase. They catch him and arrest him, and he makes it clear that he is not sorry he did it. Shortly after they crash their AV, TPCD cannot resist taunting them. You have the choice of chasing after him or ignoring him. Cyberswine will encounter him again later, and he will still be unpleasant.
• Last of His Kind: Between the disease and the killer robots, Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee are the last cops left standing.
• Lawful Stupid: If Cyberswine chooses not to kill the dying old man, he will try to justify his decision by saying that killing people is against the law. In other words, he was engaging in this. Lieutenant Sarah Lee disagrees, saying that you cannot stay human if you cannot bend the law. In other words, she is against this.
• Mercy Kill: At one point, Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee will find an old man dying of a mysterious disease. He will beg them to kill him. You get to choose whether Cyberswine grants his request or not.
• Mr. Exposition: Draino serves the purpose of explaining some situations to Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee. However, he keeps the exposition to a minimum, because there are some things they have to find out for themselves.
• Naïve Newcomer: Cyberswine starts out as this. Lieutenant Sarah Lee has to explain the Healthex vaccine to him, as well as the controls to their police ship.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lieutenant Sarah Lee is supposed to resemble Pamela Anderson, but it is hard to tell because the graphics are not the best.
• One World Order: The killer robots mention the New World. Considering that the bad guys killed off a huge percentage of humanity worldwide and replaced them with robots in one fell swoop, it pretty much is a New World for everybody.

• Pig Man: Cyberswine the protagonist. It is later revealed that he was a human whose brain was transferred into a pig's body.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Cyberswine. He can shoot down two robot-piloted ships while saying, “Top Gun, eat your heart out!”
• Quinton Flynn: So far, he is the only voice actor to have confirmed his involvement in this game. Specifically, he voiced the kid Zach.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: It is zigzagged with the Chief of Police. He is willing to give Cyberswine a chance, and makes it clear to Lieutenant Sarah Lee that she will work with him regardless of her feelings about it. However, if you choose to tell the Chief that you are pursuing a droid who sprayed Cyberswine with graffiti, the Chief will go ballistic and say that Lee is fired and Cyberswine will be made into a toaster.
• Tagline: “Part cop. Part machine. Full boar hero.” Cyberswine almost says it word for word at the end of the game.
• The Chessmaster: Vice-President Bryce Gets. He refers to Lieutenant Sarah Lee and Cyberswine as “pawns”, and refers to what he is doing as a game, complete with terms such as “midgame” and “endgame”.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Zigzagged. Lieutenant Sarah Lee and other police officers on probation because they refused to take the Healthex vaccine which is required by law. However, it turns out the vaccine is actually a type of Ebola. As a result, everybody who took the vaccine ends up dead, proving the complainers right by default.
• The Dragon: You would think that the scientist working for Vice-President Bryce Gets is this, but he is not. This role goes to the robot chicken that appears close to the end of the game.
• The Plague: Cyberswine and Lieutenant Sarah Lee soon become aware that some sort of disease is killing a huge percentage of people worldwide in one fell swoop. It is later identified as a type of Ebola. It also turns out that the Healthex vaccine that everyone was required to take contained this, and only the people who did not take the vaccine were spared.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The Chief of Police did not have a lot of screen time or lines before he ends up as a victim of the disease.
• What the Hell Hero: If Cyberswine did not kill the dying old man, Lieutenant Sarah Lee will give this to him. He tries to point out that it is against the law, but she retorts that you cannot stay human if you do not bend the law.
• Zeerust: The game is supposed to be set far into the future, but Zack has software programs on a compact disk. This game was released in 1997 which was roughly when CDs were at their peak, but nowadays software programs are more likely to be on a flash drive.