Assassin's Creed - The Animus

The Assassin's Creed franchise started in 2007, and is primarily known for being a game series about leaping off rooftops in a white dressing gown and stabbing people in the face. Which it is.
However, Assassin's Creed ALSO has some quite interesting content about exploring the past through the memories of your ancestors using SCIENCE. So let's take a critical eye to it, shall we?

The Set-Up

You, as Desmond Miles, explore the memories of your ancestors through the use of a super whizzy sci-fi machine called the Animus. This machine accesses these memories by delving into your genetic code, where the memories of your ancestors are stored, as part of your DNA. But how accurate is this genome exploration? Can this really be done?

BioShock - Plasmids

BioShock is a FPS RPG hybrid that was released in 2007, and had a lot of commentary about Ayn Rand philosophy, the nature or nurture argument and morality. It also featured the ability to set freeze people and explode their corpses with a grenade launcher. More importantly, it features an awful of pseudo-science...

The Set-Up

You, as a feller called Jack, go under the sea to a fallen utopia called Rapture. Whilst there, you make use of the miracle substance ADAM, which is a form of unstable stem cells produced by a certain species of sea slug. Using ADAM allows you to modify your genetic code using Plasmids, which give you a range of new abilities. These include making you more resilient to damage, or letting bees live in your forearms, then shooting them out as a buzzing bullet of pain.