Restricted Area (Windows)
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Perspective

Visual

2D scrolling, Isometric

Gameplay

Action RPG

Interface

Point and select

Setting

Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Post-apocalyptic

Description

The year is 2083, and the world is no longer the way it was before. Huge cities, surrounded by a heavy fog, populated by assassins, robots, and mutants - this is the future of mankind. After a prolonged cold war, the might on the Earth became concentrated in the hands of seven mega-corporations. Those corporations are fighting each other, and no means are dirty enough for them. They hire hackers to destroy security systems of hostile corporations: thieves to steal valuable documents; mercenaries to kill those who stand in their way.

You are cast into this world and are able to choose one of the four available characters to play. The four characters are: a mercenary, a yakuza fighter, a female hacker, and a female user of psionic technique. Each character has his/her own background story, and while playing the game as one of the characters, you encounter others as NPCs.

Restricted Area is an action RPG. The game is heavy on combat, in which you can equip various weapons (melee weapons, different types of guns, such as for example plasma rifles, etc.) and fight using physical attacks or psionic "spells". You can also develop your characters' skills of various kinds, and make decisions during conversations that will influence the course of the game.

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Screenshots

Restricted Area Windows Giants with hammers really aren't that much of a bother.

Restricted Area Windows Nice lighting effects from the plasma gun.

Restricted Area Windows Shadowy figures offer missions... on their own terms.

Restricted Area Windows That's a trick, isn't it?

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Alternate Titles

"限制区" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Запретная Зона" -- Russian spelling

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Critic Reviews

Game industry News (GiN)	2005		90
Digital Entertainment News (den)	Jul 18, 2005	8.7 out of 10	87
PC Games (Germany)	Oct 01, 2001	82 out of 100	82
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 2004	75 out of 100	75
Game Chronicles	Jun 29, 2005	7 out of 10	70
Daily Game	Jul 10, 2005	7 out of 10	70
Next Level Gaming	Jun 30, 2005	62 out of 100	62
GameZone	Jun 29, 2005	6.1 out of 10	61
IGN	Jun 28, 2005	6 out of 10	60
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Oct, 2005		30

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Trivia

German promotion

The original German version was promoted as featuring the actors who normally provided the German dubbed voices of Arnold Schwarzenegger (Johnson), Alicia Silverstone (Jessica), Angelina Jolie (Victoria) and Jet Li (Kenji).

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