Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy

In the future explained in the game documentation, humanity has suffered from floods due to the melting of polar ice caps. An emergency coalition known as the Aggregate World Government begun the Colonization of Mars for resources. Meanwhile, the United States of America emerged once more as a superpower, spearheading in science and technology; the sudden influx of wealth resulted to inflation and catastrophic bank failures, and the outlawing of credit-based economy. Humanity also had developed the technology of human cloning for purposes like the creation of genetically engineered soldiers for the Death Companies of the Martian colony, but abuse of the technology, including morally questionable use of the clones, resulted to the criminalisation of the technology and the establishment of DNA Laws. A prominent company mentioned in the game manual and the game dialogues is "Feradyne Corporation", which switched to robotics after the laws were passed.

The game is set in or around March 3032[2] and in the aftermath of the Martian Conflict which started when the Martian colonists wished for independence and started an embargo. The Lunar Project Conglomerate, in order to preserve the interests of the Moon colonists, responded with sending a robotic army against the rebels, who eventually were forced to flee to Earth. Most were forced to surrender and be tried, as they were suffering from reactive arthritis, a disease released from biological weapons during the conflict, and the required Egesis IV drug was legally administered only from the Terran government.

Angel Devoid, a commando genetically engineered by Feradyne who led the Martian resistance, was court-martialed along with other rebels. Acquitted on all charges, he worked his way to the position of Chief of Paradise City Police Department. During his service his office was rigged with a bomb, which severely injured Detective Jake Hard, who underwent heavy reconstruction and lost some of his memory. Devoid was the alleged perpetrator and Hard held him responsible for his damage, although Devoid himself accused Mayor James Waterford for wanting to get rid of him. Eventually Devoid was forced to resign for an alleged police brutality scandal, and during the relevant press-conference he assassinated the Mayor. After threatening those who wanted to get rid of him, he disappeared in the underground of the Neo-City where he became a notorious criminal, performing terrorist acts against corporations involved in the Mars conflict.

As the game starts, the player character Jake Hard is pursuing his archnemesis Angel Devoid who has been spotted near Neo-City, until his flying patrol car is damaged and himself falls severely injured. He wakes up in a hospital after having had a facial reconstruction surgery, only to find himself having the face of Angel Devoid, and unable to speak as his vocal cords are damaged. His first task is to escape the hospital before the Police arrives. Early in the beginning, he meets his ex-colleague Lorraine Ruger, who has been blinded and recognises Hard from his gait, and supplies him with a Plasma Pistol.

The player travels around regions of Neo-City, meets several characters who pass him for Devoid, but also tries to survive as his archnemesis is wanted by bounty hunters, a figure only referred to as "the Yak", and the "Death Tribes" (underground groups whose members maintain neotribalistic customs in the urban scenery). As many of the characters are hostile, the player occasionally has to resolve to quickly using the pistol against them in order to avoid the game over.

As the game progresses, the player obtains wetware computer chips belonging to Devoid; he learns that he was involved in the theft of a highly explosive material known as Trixilite, which he has linked to the thermo-furnaces of Paradise City, intending to destroy both cities.

In the end, the player accesses an underground complex where he meets the original Angel Devoid inside a life support device. It is revealed that Angel Devoid employed clones for his deeds, and the player is actually the last of them, leaving open to interpretation how much of the protagonist's backstory is true. The player then is faced with several choices that will trigger three alternate endings; these range from either killing Devoid and being hailed as a hero while the citizens continue to live their own dystopia; to escaping on a space shuttle before the cities explode, and seek a new life on Mars.