Throughout the
course of the game, players are faced with numerous situations in which their
action (or inaction) will have an effect on the direction of gameplay. This is
exemplified in the opening stage of the game when a civilian is about to be
thrown from the bridge to his death. If the player saves the civilian, they
will enter the house directly through the front door; however, if the player
fails to rescue the civilian, the character is redirected to an underground
route through the sewers. If the player rescues all civilians, a secret room
full of lives and bonuses is revealed toward the end of the game.
AMS agents Thomas
Rogan and 'G' are sent on an assignment on December 18, 1998 to investigate a
series of disappearances at the Curien Mansion, home and laboratory of Dr. Roy
Curien, a renowned biochemist and geneticist. Curien was obsessed with discovering
the very nature of life and death, backed by the DBR Corporation and its own
team of scientists. However, Curien's relentless pursuit of this goal led him
to grow insane, where the nature of the experiments began taking a gruesome
turn, releasing his experimental subjects into the world. When Rogan and 'G'
arrive, a mortally wounded man gives them a small field diary showing
information of all of Curien's deadly creations and their weak points. It is
used every time the player(s) are confonted by a boss.
Amidst the chaos
wrought by Curien, Rogan and "G" face many formidable foes, including
The Chariot, an undead, armour-clad, neo-warrior wielding a bardiche who
mortally wounds Rogan's fiancée Sophie Richards before the player faces him in
battle, and The Hanged Man, a winged gargoyle/bat-like creature. The Hanged Man
captures Sophie in the game's opening stage before stealing away over the
mansion. In the final chapter, the AMS agents confront Curien, he releases The
Hermit, an eight-legged spider-like creature that spits balls of web upon them
before stealing away to his lab.
Upon confronting
Curien a second time, the AMS agents are to encounter his masterpiece, The
Magician, a humanoid demon-esque creature, with mastery of fire. After Curien
releases the creature from its incubation chamber, the Magician reveals itself
to be self-aware, refusing to serve any master and Dr. Curien is killed by his
creation. To prevent the Magician from escaping the mansion and destroying the
world, Rogan and 'G' confront the creature in one final battle. They succeed in
destroying Curien's monster and are then given one last, chilling warning from
the Magician.
The Magician
explodes. Rogan and 'G' leave the mansion, taking one last look at it from the
outside.
There are, however,
alternate endings that the player can achieve upon completing the game. One
ending, in which the camera pans to the foyer one last time; the doors open,
revealing Sophie to be alive, running towards the camera saying "Thank
you!", another shows Sophie has now become one of the undead--the last
corpse remaining, all depending on the player's final score and the number of
continues used.
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