Jump Raven

Jump Raven
Cover art by Mark Maxwell
Developer(s)Cyberflix
Publisher(s)Paramount Interactive
Programmer(s)Bill Appleton
Artist(s)Jamie Wicks
Debbie Hughes
Writer(s)Andrew Nelson
Platform(s)Windows, Mac OS
Release1994
Genre(s)Shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Jump Raven was the second game released by Cyberflix, in 1994. The game's technology is similar to that of Lunicus, released by Cyberflix one year prior, but this time employs a more detailed storyline and environment. In an opening sequence of the game, we see future New York City, which has fallen into horrible disrepair in the aftermath of global warming and rising sea levels and a bankrupt federal government. The premise of the story is that gangsters, neo-nazis, and various other thugs have acquired large stores of weapons from the government, and have ransacked New York's store of cryogenically-frozen DNA of endangered species. The player's job as a bounty hunter is to retrieve them.