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The Game tells the story of a wealthy businessman who is gifted with prepaid access to a strange game. The game integrates in strange ways with his life. As the lines between the businessman's real life and the game become more and more uncertain there are hits of a larger conspiracy.The game in the movie can be viewed as sort of Alternate Reality Game with a large Live action role-playing game component. Participants in real life versions of alternate relatity games and live action role-playing games find the movie interesting and a source of inspiration for this reason.
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Nicholas Van Orton is a successful businessman. His brother Conrad presents Nicholas with an unusual gift: a prepaid game. The nature of the game is unclear at first, but it appears to be a sort of Live action role-playing game that integrates directly into the player's real life. After taking a full day test and physical, Nicholas is informed that the game company cannot serve him. Quickly Nicholas discovers that this is false and the game has begun. The game integrates a key moment of Nicholas's life: watching his father commit suicide by leaping off a tall building. As the movie progresses evidence mounts that the game is actually an elaborate scheme. Repeated attempts are made on Nicholas's life. While Nicholas is disoriented the payroll accounts he controls have been drained. Feeling estranged from his friends and lawyer, eventually Nicholas becomes desperate, recovers a hidden gun from his home, and heads directly into the recently moved offices of the game company. He takes one of the staff members hostage and demands answers. The staff members he interacts with are surprised by the gun; they thought they had replaced any firearms Nicholas could access. The movie comes to a climax on the roof of the game company's skyscraper. A jumpy Nicholas again demands answers. A door opens, surprising Nicholas and he fires without looking, only to reveal that he has shot his brother holding a surprise birthday cake. Nicholas leaps off the skyscraper, crashes through a glass ceiling, and lands safely in an airbag. There Nicholas's friends wait his arrival and the game is revealed to have just been a game. The accounts have not been drained, the gun was replaced with one firing blanks, his brother is alive.
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