Shin Megami Tensei - Released at last

Role Playing fans have been waiting for the latest installment of the Japanese mega franchise Shin Megami Tensei for almost a year since it's US release, and over two years since it's premier in Japan.

But with the waiting over you can at last follow the absolutely bizarre plotline that will keep you hooked for many an hour. Set during an undisclosed modern time period in Tokyo, the adventure begins with a strange dream sequence that informs players that they'll have to take some kind of important role in a forthcoming catastrophic event. Known as "The Conception," this horror is described as an incident that must first require the world to completely die out before it can be reborn again -- and to say that the whole thing is creepy is a bit of an understatement. Out of focus and told from the first person perspective, the dream is highly prophetic, a bit interactive, and relatively imageless except for the visage of a beautiful unknown woman. And sure enough, not too long after awaking from his dream, your user-named character finds himself right in the middle of an acid-induced apocalypse: complete with huge flashes of light, demonic shop owners, strange freaks in supernatural wheelchairs, and a ton of hot chicks with mysterious cloaks covering almost nothing!