Illuminati in Popular Culture - Games

Games

• In the Assassin's Creed game series, a secret group known as the Templars who are posing as a public company called Abstergo Industries, who are responsible for the events of the world and the entire human race, and are very similar to the Illuminati conspiracy theories. They aim to use the Pieces of Eden to control humanity through implants in their brains.
• Several games from Steve Jackson Games are based on the Mythos : the card game Illuminati and its trading card game reincarnation Illuminati: New World Order, and the role-playing game GURPS Illuminati.
• The Illuminati appear in the Deus Ex series of video games as the chief organization behind many conspiracies.
• In the role-playing game Paranoia the Illuminati is a secret society so secret that all its members are undercover, pretending to be members of one of the other, less secret, secret societies and presumably attempting to influence their activities for some greater purpose.
• The 'Oro' in the Condemned video game series is highly reminiscent of the Illuminati, as it is a secretive organization consisting of members in lofty political positions (including the President of the United States) seeking to influence society.
• On the radio show in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, a conspiracy theorist, Gomez, says that the Illuminati is in bed with the United States government to get traffic records. They then use these records to make coffee houses in the most profitable locations. Also, the Illuminati controls the world's energy, so they know which people are watching TV and which are not, enabling them to know who is receiving their "subliminal messages" of keeping the "sheep" putting money in banks rather than their secret headquarters. Finally, Gomez says that recycling is not real, existing only to get human DNA. They then use this DNA to create clones to assassinate and assume the identity of those who go poking around in Illuminati business.
• In the first person shooter series Call of Duty the Illuminati is mentioned several times in the zombies mode, which is playable in Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops. One of the four main playable characters, Edward Richtofen, is suspected to be a member of the Illuminati, due to how many times he references to them. The Illuminati are indirectly responsible for the events of the game as they tried to take control of the world by controlling the zombies. He will also mention Treyarch and interrupt with "Illuminati."
• In the Metal Gear Solid game series, a secret group known as the Patriots are very similar to today's conspiracy theories on the Illuminati. In these games, the Patriots secretly control the United States of America (such as deciding the next President), and wish to expand their control to the entire world by controlling the flow of information to the public.
• The Illuminati appear in the 2003 fighting game One Must Fall: Battlegrounds.
• In Street Fighter III, the organization makes its appearance as an antagonistic secret society. They are revealed to be a secretive and select society of authoritarian and Darwinistic human beings with naturally superior traits, who have long manipulated world events since the dawn of mankind; from the political and even to the criminal underworld, and have strictly kept evidence of the supernatural and highly technological from current society. Gill, the current defacto leader and Emperor of Illuminati, again hosts the Street Fighter tournaments as a part of his plans, in attempts to summon forth "superior individuals" whom he will grant sanctuary from a long prophesied apocalypse from their lore, from which he believes dawns from the vast issues of imbalance born of the actions of mankind, and now believed to have grown to its peak in the eve of the 20th Century.
• In Area 51 (2005 video game), the Grey Aliens make a deal with the Illuminati to build a research base 3 miles below the surface of Area 51.
• In the MMORPG The Secret World, the Illuminati is one of the three playable factions.
• In MadWorld, several conglomerates orchestrate an epidemic to test a newly designed disease and cure in the fictional Varrigan city, under the ruse of a televised gladiatorial tournament while also gambling stocks and shares as the battles play out.
• In the fourth installment of the Resident Evil series, Leon constantly battles Spanish men/women under the influence of 'Los Illuminados'. Cult members in the game are seen wearing black and red robes and worshiping in circles with the circle leader having a goat-skull for a mask or head. One part of the game involves taking a top member's eye for retina scanning. This is a reference to the associated Illuminati symbol of the Egyptian god Horus.