| Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller | |
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| Developer(s) | Take-Two Interactive (DOS) Tetragon (3DO) |
| Publisher(s) | GameTek Take-Two Publishing |
| Producer(s) | John Antinori |
| Designer(s) | John Antinori Laura Kampo |
| Programmer(s) | Greg Brown Frank Kern |
| Artist(s) | Quinno Martin |
| Writer(s) | John Antinori Dennis Johnson Laura Kampo |
| Composer(s) | Michael Bross |
| Platform(s) | DOS, 3DO, Macintosh (System 7), Windows |
| Release | DOS, 3DOMacintosh
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| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1994, developed by Take-Two Interactive Software and published by GameTek for the DOS. It was ported to 3DO, Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. The game was notable for being one of the first CD-ROM-only games to use speech with hi-res graphics, and was designed by the same team as BloodNet, the story of which is referenced to during one of Hell's subplots. Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Stephanie Seymour, and Geoffrey Holder are among the actors in the game. Seymour and Holder appear in live action footage, while the rest of the cast, including Hopper and Jones, lend their voices to computer-animated representations.
The story is told through a variety of partial screen full-motion video (FMV) movies in the PC version; the 3DO version uses the same movies, but runs entirely in full screen. The game is set in a dystopian 2095, and the United States of America is under the control of a fascist theocracy called the "Hand of God". Unlike theocracies of the past, this government can send criminals and insurgents to hell, and has even brought a few of them back to tell their tale. In this third-person perspective, dystopian environment, players control Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque, two loyal agents (and lovers) of a new law enforcement agency created by the theocracy: Artificial Reality Containment, or ARC, a Cultural Revolution-like organization that enforces a ban on cybernetic technology in general and virtual reality in particular.
Hell was commercially successful, with sales of 300,000 units within six months of its release. Hell is the first of the three Take-Two developed FMV adventure games, the other two being Ripper and Black Dahlia.
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