/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2307714
>implying

Earth is invaded by a cybernetic alien force, the Strogg, who are trying to harvest Earth's resources (these resources primarily being human parts). In defense of the planet, all of Earth's nations unite and form one single military organization called the Global Defense Force. After the Earth invasion (which takes place before the game and is more deeply elaborated in ET: Quake Wars), humanity, in retaliation, forms the Terran Coalition of Man and launches a counter-attack on Stroggos called "Operation Alien Overlord".

You, a marine named Bitterman, are deployed in a fleet of drop pods designed to enter the Stroggos surface undetected. However, it is discovered that Stroggos' surface is protected by a planetary defense system designed to disable any invading forces via a long-range EMP. Much of the fleet is destroyed before ever reaching the surface, and most of those who manage to survive the crash are either killed or captured for stroggification.

You, having managed to crash in a lightly guarded military base, are trusted to establish an uplink between command and the Strogg computers, destroy the security grid, disable their interstellar gateway to Earth (rendering you unlikely to ever return home even if you succeed), and assassinate the leader of the Strogg force.

But yeah I agree, it did have a pretty spooky atmosphere.