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Continuity mistake: When the player is asked to choose between joining the Na'vi or the RDA after discovering that Harper is the mole, if the player chooses to stay with the RDA, then the player remains human throughout the rest of the game. One of the players missions will then be to kill Tan Jala, in which the player is of course successful. Near the end of the game the player then meets with a Na'vi leader who gives the player a choice to either remain with the RDA, or switch sides and help the Na'vi. If the player decides to switch sides and join with the Na'vi, after the RDA attack on the Well of Souls is repulsed, an Ikran appears with Tan Jala riding it.

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Continuity mistake: In the game's final cut-scene, even if you had the M4, Niko will be armed with an AK-47.

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Continuity mistake: During the Kronos campaign as Chaos, Eliphas the Inheritor can "ascend" to his final Demonic form. However, despite the in-game unit being granted a different, more appropriate voice for his new body, Eliphas still uses his old one for the various bits of communication that go on between him and the other faction Generals.

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Continuity mistake: After Leon beats Bitores Mendez and takes his fake eye, you will notice if you look closely at his corpse that his fake eye is still in his head.

Ted Van Duyn

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Continuity mistake: Indiana first meets Wu Han in this game, just a couple of weeks before the events of the Temple of Doom film. However, when he dies in that movie, he says they have been on many adventures together.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Marshall has to jump over multiple small robots, if Marshall misses a jump and is killed by a robot, the robot turns orange, no matter what colour it was before.

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Continuity mistake: When Kairi and Sora finally meet again, Kairi hugs Sora. In the first shot, Kairi's arms are over Sora's. However, in the next shot, her arms are under his.

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Continuity mistake: In every gym there is a statue that lists the names of all the people who have won there. The only names that appear are the player character's and their rival's, but when you go to the elite four there are all these other trainers. How did they get past the guards when they don't have any badges?

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Continuity mistake: On the final mission, once you kill the final boss, the gun you will be holding in the cut scene is a M4, even if you used a different gun.

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Continuity mistake: When you are romancing a governor's daughter, and the city she lives in is captured by another nation, a new governor with his daughter is installed. This new girl looks completely different from your old romance (and her father is a completely different person), but she nonetheless remembers you. You are still at the same stage in your relationship, even if the girl has never met you before. You can even (for instance) rescue a blonde Dutch woman from her captors, and end up returning with a black-haired Spanish girl.

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Continuity mistake: When you first meet the Doom Dragon on top of the Mars Lighthouse, its red head is on the left. When you actually battle the Doom Dragon, its red head is on the right. You see it both times from the front, so it's not an angle issue.

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Continuity mistake: When Bernard talks to Green Tentacle after releasing him, he asks about the bowling ball in the room. Green Tentacle says that Purple Tentacle brought it in after he grew arms. In the final part of the game, the player has to get the bowling ball and use it. However, this part is set BEFORE Purple Tentacle grows arms.

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Continuity mistake: When there are zombies in the lift in the later stages of the game, if you clear it out then close and open the door, the lift will fill again before it has time to visit another floor.

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Continuity mistake: When wearing the bikini outfits in Croft Manor, the portable light source, grapple and gun holsters only appear when used and disappear when they are not.

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Continuity mistake: No matter what weapon you are holding before a cut scene appears, the cut scene will always show a pistol, even if you were holding a rifle.

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Continuity mistake: For the PSP version, while playing as Decepticon Barricade, when you are finished destroying the power generators which keep Megatron frozen, they look really beat up. However, when it cuts to a short video, you can see the generators behind Barricade, and they are now magically in perfect condition.

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Continuity mistake: In FMVs, Lara has long hair in a ponytail, but in-game, her hair is short and tied in a bun. This is due to the fact that at the time, generating a moving ponytail for Lara in-game would take up too much memory.

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Continuity mistake: In Act 2 when you reach the checkpoint with all the stranded, just before the cut scene plays the residents disappear.

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Continuity mistake: Several of the NPCs use multiple voices depending on when you speak to them, sometimes their voices will change completely during a single conversation.

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Continuity mistake: Before the fight with the pot barrel spider/centipede boss in Agrabah, after Iago steals the lamp from Aladdin he lands on Jafar's left shoulder. After Jafar says, "Attack," there is a cut and Iago is no longer there.

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