Space Elevators in Fiction - Games

Games

• 2300 AD, role-playing game by Game Designers' Workshop.
• The video game Final Star Force includes a stage with a space elevator.
• The Android detective board game includes a space elevator.
• From Software's Armored Core 2 and Armored Core 2: Another Age feature space elevators named "Rapture" above both Earth and Mars.
• Blue Planet (role-playing game) featured a space elevator located in Ecuador that is destroyed by terrorists during the dark years of the Blight.
• Civilization: Call to Power and Sid Meier's Civilization IV, strategy video game, as a Wonder of the World.
• Contra: Hard Corps, Colonel Bahamut takes the Alien Cell to the top of his personal Space Elevator with plans of using its power for world domination.
• Eclipse Phase (role-playing game), some space elevators had been built from earth to the orbit or space stations, but except one where destroyed during a war between man and machine.
• Freelancer, a space elevator transports small ships from orbit to the surface of planets.
• Front Mission: Gun Hazard, video game by Square, features the Orbital Elevator "A.T.L.A.S.".
• Front Mission Evolved, an upcoming videogame by Square Enix, features an Orbital Elevator.
• Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 3: ODST video games by Bungie Studios, depict a space elevator in New Mombasa, Kenya in the year 2552. The elevator is toppled during the Battle of Earth in Halo 2/Halo 3: ODST, and its ruins are encountered during operations in the Battle of Voi in Halo 3. The Halo 3 Multiplayer Map "Orbital" also depicts a space elevator over Quito, Ecuador. Halo Reach depicts three slightly different orbital elevators in the distance of the city 'New Alexandria' on the human colony Reach, but they aren't accessible in the game.
• Killzone 3, a first person shooter by Guerrilla Games, depict a space elevator on the planet of Helghan. The protagonists use it to stop the Helghast fleet from destroying Earth.
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, strategy video game, allows players to build a "Secret Project" entitled the "Space Elevator".
• Sonic Colors, Platformer by Sega. Dr. Eggman creates an orbital elevator which reaches out to an "Eggman Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park" consisting of a spherical main body with several alien planets tethered to it via giant energy chains.
• Syndicate Wars, a videogame by Bullfrog Productions, featured an "orbital elevator" which was actually a lunar space elevator.
• The Moment of Silence, an adventure video game by The Adventure Company, lets you ride a space elevator based in New York City
• Transhuman Space, role-playing game by Steve Jackson Games. In this setting, a first space elevator had been built on Mars and the second one, on Earth, is on the way.
• Martian Rails, a crayon rail system game by Mayfair Games pays tribute to the Mars Trilogy with a "Cable Breaks" event that destroys everything on the equator.
• Mega Man X8, Action game by Capcom. An Orbital Elevator known as "Jakob" is used to transport Reploids and materials to the moon to prepare it for colonization, and is at the center of the game's conflict.
• Mega Man X Command Mission, RPG by Capcom. The final moments of the game before the final boss' final form takes place in an Orbital Elevator named "Babel"
• Mega Man Zero series, Action game by Capcom. In the series, all important Government locations are located atop orbital elevators in stationary satellites, and multiple elevators can be seen from the elevator Area X-ll in Mega Man Zero 3. The Neo Arcadia Tower present in the first game is also the remains of an elevator damaged in the wars past, hollowed out and laid with traps to foil intruders.
• Independence War or I-War, a space simulation game by Particle Systems Ltd. A multiple tether space elevator is shown in the introduction movie when President King is transported into space aboard a crawler.
• Namco Bandai's role-playing video game series Xenosaga features a gigantic space station in orbit above Federation capital planet of Fifth Jeruselam. Episode III reveals that the station is tethered to the ground by a space elevator.
• The space elevator "Babel" appears in Battle Clash and its sequel as the last great construction project completed before the apocalypse, and serves as the only surviving route to outer space.