G String is a 2020 first-person shooter video game developed over roughly 14 years by Eyaura for Windows. The game is set in a dystopian cyberpunk far future North America ravaged by climate change, pollution, economic inequality and civil unrest. The player controls Myo Hyori, a teenage girl fighting to survive against the hazards posed by the totalitarian state, their corporate backers, rogue machines and the polluted landscape. Along her perilous journey she even ventures into Earth orbit a couple times.
Gameplay G String is a single-player first person shooter. It also has some surreal and survival horror elements. The player takes control of Myo Hyori an 18-year-old of Korean descent, who has both telekinesis and pyrokinesis. Mechanically, G String functions similarly to Half-Life 2, which the game's code was based upon. Almost all of the G String enemies and weapons are reskins of those in Half-Life 2. There are new additions though, such as Myo's pyrokinetic ability, a whole slew of new vehicles, the Scanmines and the Sizzlers, to name a few.
Synopsis
Setting G String is set in the far future in the fictional nation of the North American Union (the NAU for short). The NAU was formed via a merger that occurred between the United States, Canada and Mexico following a series of oil wars in the Middle East that ended in nuclear war. Set in a world utterly devastated by climate change, the Earth is on the brink of collapse. The Middle East has been devastated by the previously mentioned oil wars as well as climate change, resulting in mass migration to Europe (who has since become extremely cold as a result of climate change). Europe has become majority Muslim due to these events. Southeast Asia is also largely underwater, which has resulted in massive amounts of migration to the NAU. As a result of climate change and mass pollution, air has become so scarce that it has become a commodity. A company by the name of Murdock Air is the largest distributor of air in the modern world, with its CEO Ted Murdock being the richest man alive (and a multi-trillionaire). Murdock Air's pyramid-shaped primary air facility is the largest manmade structure in human history. Murdock and his company reside in the NAU. The NAU is the last remaining superpower on the planet. It maintains an extremely close grasp on its citizens' lives and freedoms in order to maintain its place in the world. Religion has been banned, only digital currency is allowed, citizens are required to abide by a weekly product purchase quota, free speech is non-existent and mass surveillance is everywhere. The NAU has created an extensive police state in order to ensure that their citizens stay in line. NATO (which the NAU is a part of and seemingly its leading member) has set up largescale colonies all throughout the Solar System. One of their largest colonies (Mars) has broken away from NATO in a recent revolution and Martian separatists are hellbent on creating a state free of NATO influence where citizens can live free in a life more akin to what the old world was. Many anti-government groups also exist on Earth and throughout the rest of the Solar System as well. The largest of these groups are the Nosumers (based on Earth), who fight primarily to oppose the NAU's centralized digital currency. As a result of recent advances in science, genetic engineering and mechanical augmentation technology have become readily available. The NAU as well as several of their allies (some corporate and some governmental) has begun to use this technology to create super soldiers to fight for them (as well as to create braindead sex slaves and clones of celebrities among other things).
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