ВНЕЗАПНО оказывается что Майкл Леруа не самый обыкновенный негр, а на самом деле потомок африканских шаманов вуду и более того полубог призванный защищать мир живых(Liveside) от козней мира загробного(Deadside). А в загробном мире как раз таки зреет заговор по захвату мира живых, в который втянуты пять маньяков-убийц и злые души. И чтобы расхлебать всю эту кашу Майклу придётся бродить по обоим мирам собирая злые души и выяснять кто за всем этим кипешем стоит. Новые места будут доступны по мере того как будут собираться злые души, оружия, чЮдесные способности и разыне предметы(например, ключ инженера). Игру ещё не прошел но среди всего что видел весьма доставила атмосфера загробного мира и конечно же "Психушки" - здешнего гнезда заговора. Ощущения похожи на Warlock[SNES] - буквально каждый угол и поворот этих мрачных мест кажется зловещим и постоянно ожидаешь какого-нибудь западла, но по-моему оно случается гораздо реже чем его ждёшь. Сюжет в игре мистический, и потому с кучей противоречий, но как-то пришёлся по вкусу, к игре есть даже целая предыстория, в которой оказывается, что Майкл учился на профессора литературы, после чего работал таксистом, после чего ЕМНИП украл у какой-то мафии большие бапки из-за чего мафия перебила его семью, короче кому интересно наслаждайтесь (с ГеймФака):
Born in New Orleans, this 32 year old is a victim of his own demise.
After flunking out of college to become an English Literature
Professor, he resorted to drinking and spent the rest of his college
fund from his parents on women, booze, and gambling. He then took up a
job as a taxi driver in Chicago and lied to his family and pretended to
be a college professor. In 1991, Mike was taking some young punk to
unknowingly make a drug deal. When the deal started to go bad, the
dealers shot Mike's passanger in the back of the head gangsta style and
he floored the cab to get out of there and save his own life. When Mike
ditched his cab, he was petrified and wiped the cab down of his finger
prints and discovered a duffle bag in the hands of the dead punk and he
took it. Inside the bag, he discovered $20,000!!! In a paranoid panic,
he returned home to New Orleans and showered his family with gifts and
payed for his little brother Luke's much needed operation with his
newfound fortune.
Well, it turns out that the Mob was responsible for the shooting and
had tracked Mike back home and demanded their blood money or Mike and
his family would die. In utter fear, Mike sought help from a Bokor, a
voodoo priest, to cast a spell of protection from the Mobsters who
threaten him. Unfortunately, this spell the priest had cast worked far
too well. To celebrate Luke's homecoming from his brain surgery, Mike
was taking his family out to dinner and they were all murdered at a
stop light in a drive by shooting, Mike barely survived.
After waking out of a coma of 5 years, Mike had lost all of his
memory. He was brain washed and drawn into the voodoo underworld by the
Bokor. Mike is now doomed to be the Bokor's zombie slave for eternity,
the price he had to unknowingly pay for the spell of protection the
voodoo priest had cast upon him. Taking a new identity as Zero, Mike
had served as a hitman for the Bokor and was totally unaware of his
true identity.
One dreary night, a very powerful voodoo priestess named Mamma
Nettie walked into the Bokor's bar, the Wild at Heart, and seduced Mike
into her bed. While Mike was sleeping, she summoned her powers and
implanted the Mask of Shadows into Mike's chest making him the next
Shadow Man, now her eternal slave and under her complete control. When
Mamma Nettie regained her powers the next day, she destroyed the Bokor
and took his soul. Then Nettie gave the Wild at Heart's deed to Mike
and gave him back his memory, which he wished she hadn't, for it
constantly torments him. As the Shadow Man under Nettie's control, Mike
just can't simply "end" his suffering. Until he finds out a way to
break this curse and seek redemption for the horrors he has commited,
Mike is doomed to obey Mamma Nettie's every command for eternity.
Больше всего понравились(это был ВОСТОРГ!!) две оригинальные способности, которыми Майкл будет обладать. Одну заспойлерю:
Майкл научится взбираться по кровавым водопадам как по лестницам. Эти кровопады поначалу казались только подходящей декорацией для загробного мира.
Насчёт того, что стырили, тут всё не так просто. В игре нет карты. К тому же в Super Metroid УП женского пола, а здесь мужского, здесь играем за негра а там за белую госпожу. Пока из улик тут то что в обеих этих играх можно стрелять и прыгать.
