Cyberpost Apocalyptic Punkfallout Gaming.
So uh...despite the impossible to understand title, I'm looking for my favourite kind of settings for games...Cyberpunk and Post Apocalyptic. Aside from Fallout and the Shadowrun console games, does anyone know good games with these settings? Where the setting influences the game in more than just visuals, that is.
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I haven't played it in years, but I think it's like:
Aliens came to Earth and basically destroyed humanity. What is left of actual humanity has banded together to form the Resistance (there are other human based factions, but they are not friendly).
You control your forces through a command station that hovers, and you can get around to building structures and units from there, but you can also jump into any unit you create to assist in battle. It actually seems like a NS similar RTS/FPS when I think about it.
Something like this (taken from <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/games/urbanassault/' target='_blank'>this</a>...amazingly still operative Microsoft site) would precede every mission on the loading screen, giving you story and background info:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"Darkness. . . The void calling my name. . . . And the evil, always pursued by the evil. . . These were my dreams . . . Back when I could dream.
The machines, were desirous of me - valuing my fear as much as my mind. And because these were the good machines, our machines, the savior machines, I could not refuse their seduction.
There were so few humans left in the years following The Big Mistake. Humans were too precious to send into battle when the OffWorlders came. And so we created the war machines, the savior machines.
But to save us they needed a single human integrated into their empathic net. For it was the human's wetware that provided the passions of love for the planet, and enough fear to temper decisions.
Oh, but humans were not meant to experience such power. When the click of a finger can create new machines, and when just one more click can send them into war, and when the empath net links you into all, as if you were living simultaneous lives, and suffering simultaneous deaths, the mind begins to retreat.
So the machines, the good machines, the savior machines, have searched once again, and have come to you for the plan."
- from the Journal of User 7, 2234 A.D. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyway, I really wouldn't recommend it without a joystick, especially since mine was forcefeedback. It was all about jumping into a Hornet helicopter and trying to take down an enemy host station while the army of Wasp, Hornet and Dragonfly Helicopters and Fox tanks are annihalated all around you; all while a bomb that's set to destroy whoever doesn't control it ticks away.
It is a fairly old, and the graphics compared to modern standards are fairly sub-par; maybe it's not quite what you're looking for.
And <b><u>Red Skies over Jersey</u></b>... But im not supposed to talk about that, NDAs suck