Ion Storm

I am Sly Boots, a private investigator whose office is on an artificial planet called Anachronox, somewhere in the middle of the universe. Currently, an angry client is beating me up... Right, I forgot again about that little debt of mine... No big deal. But my secretary Fatima reminds me I should better get a job. Okay, okay... I'll just walk around, talk to people, and find something. What's that? A mysterious rich man wants me to find some artifact for him? Great! That looks like a simple PI job. What can possibly go wrong? And so, the tale of Anachronox begins. Together with his friends, Sly Boots will discover a great mystery and prevent the destruction of the universe. Set in a futuristic world, the game is a console-style RPG for the PC, that also contains elements of a humorous adventure á la Space Quest. Controlling Sly and six other party members, you'll explore many planets, and fight enemies in Final Fantasy style battles - a mixture of real time and turn-based combat. There are also many mini-games and plenty of side quests scattered around.

In the future the world is chaos. Terrorists, drug czars, and outlaw states rule the globe using violence and subterfuge as tools in their push for global conquest. Economic disparity is at an all-time high and many predict the collapse of the world economy. To top it off a deadly virus known as the Gray Death eats away at humanity. In this dark cyberpunk RPG you play the role of a single UNATCO anti-terrorist agent pitted against an elaborate global conspiracy. While your character is essentially fixed within the story-framework of the game you can customize yourself with different skills in specialized areas like weapons, technical, and charisma-type. The game world is somewhat expansive and fairly open to accommodate different approaches to solving the same problems, depending on your preferred style of play. Characters can also have nanotech augmentations to enhance or add extra abilities. The game interface is typic of a first person RPG/action-adventure game. The world is rendered in first-person 3D and camera segues are sometimes interspersed to transition the gameplay or expose new story elements. Combat takes place in the same interface, similar to a FPS game.