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Journey to the Center of the Earth Spoilers
Welcome to the new Computer Game Spoilers section of
my gaming website. I added this section because I recently received questions about the plots of two different games which, to my surprise
and embarrassment, I had totally forgotten the answers to. Then, to my further surprise, I was unable to find any existing website that
would refresh my memory about the plots of computer games... lots of puzzle solutions, but no basic plot summaries.
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So I figured I'd better write some of them down while they're still fresh in my mind, just in case I or anybody else wants to refer to them
at some point in the future (or in case anybody suffers a major game glitch and just wants to know what was supposed to happen in the end--
I get letters like this from time to time.) If you haven't finished Journey to the Center of the Earth yet and you don't want the plot of this game
to be revealed to you, then you don't want to read this page. Please go back to my main
Journey to the Center of the Earth page, where I give tips and reviews without
giving away any of its plot.
But if you are looking for plot spoilers, just scroll further down the page to find them!
Plot Summary
This game is loosely based on Jules Verne's classic 1864 novel Journey to the Center of
the Earth. The setting is taken from the book, but the plot is new and set in the modern day.
An ambitious photojournalist named Ariane falls through a volcanic crevice in Iceland and ends
up in the underground world from Verne's novel. There, she finds living dinosaurs and mammoths,
a race of giants, and a strange isolated society of humans. The humans and giants inform her that
all is not well in their world and that they need her help. Their initial concern-- that a devastating
war has broken out on the surface-- turns out to be false (one of the inhabitants has deliberately
spread this rumor by splicing old World War II newsreels into news reports from the surface.)
However, Alexander is plotting to wipe out the giants with poison, and also to sell diamonds
to the people on the surface and become filthy rich, without regard to the effect this will have
on the other inhabitants of the region. Ariane must decide whether to stop Alexander
or not, and then either way, she gets to return home.
Game Endings
There are two different endings you can achieve in this game, depending on whether Ariane chooses
to thwart Alexander's conspiracy and protect Askiam, or return to the surface and make her big scoop.
Ending #1: Ariane returns to the surface and reveals the existence of the underground world.
Her journalism career takes off as she hoped it would. Meanwhile, because she has failed to
stop him, Alexander also gets his way. He moves to the surface and becomes a rich, powerful
media mogul. The society at the center of the earth is disrupted, the dinosaurs are shot and killed,
and the giants vanish (presumably killed by the poison Alexander developed.)
Ending #2: After defeating Alexander, Ariane proves to everyone that there is no war on the surface.
She returns home but discards her camera memory card so that the society at the center of the
earth can live on peacefully in their own way.
Character Subplots and Secrets
Wallace: The mayor ("Chief Engineer") of Askiam.
Ariane finds evidence suggesting that Wallace was the one who doctored the news
reports to make everyone believe there was a war going on above. However, later she finds that
he was not part of the conspiracy and is actually one of the good guys. So either this evidence
was planted, or Alexander duped Wallace into doctoring the videos, or else Wallace doctored
the videos for his own purposes that had nothing to do with the conspiracy. For some reason
Ariane is never given the option to ask him about this, so we never learn how this was connected
to anything.
Bares Mohul: A giant who is in cahoots with Alexander. It's never explained why he and Alexander
are working together if Alexander wants to kill all the giants. Presumably Alexander must have
hidden this from him, and oddly, Ariane is not given the option to reveal it to Bares when she talks
to him.
Peter: This distracted scientist is in fact Alexander's brother. Alexander has imprisoned him in
his laboratory for some reason that is not really made clear.
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