Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller

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Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Developer(s)	Take‑Two Interactive Software
Publisher(s)	Gametek
Platform(s)	PC (MS-DOS) 3DO
Release date	1994
Genre(s)	point-and-click adventure
Rating(s)	3DO: 17 ELSPA:18+
Media	CD (1)

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1994 by Gametek and developed by Take‑Two Interactive Software. It was available both for DOS and 3DO. The game was notable for being one of the first CD-ROM only games to use speech with hi-res graphics, and has been described as very similar to BloodNet. Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones and Stephanie Seymour were among the voice actors who lend their voices to characters in the game. Seymour herself also appears on screen at one point, while Hopper and Jones appear via computer animated representations.

The story is told through a variety of partial screen FMV movies. The game is set in a dystopian 2095, and the United States of America is under the control of a brutal fascist-theocratic dictatorship called the "Hand of God". Unlike the religious dictatorships of the past, this government has the ability to send sinners to hell-and prove they have done it.

In this third person perspective, dystopia environment, you pick between Gideon Eshanti, or Rachel Braque, two loyal police officers (and lovers) who have been declared enemies of the state and are now on the run. Both characters are part of an ARC squad, or Artificial Reality Containment group, who one night find themselves on the run from the very government they work for. They have to travel between Earth and Hell a few times to find out why they are on the run, and save the day. To survive you enlist the help of various characters in the underworld, solve puzzles and even run some errands for Satan himself.