Regardless, there’s work to be done, soldier. You control one cell of the Phoenix Project – a worldwide organization designed to be activated when the world is in peril – but a single cell can’t save the world. By present day, the human population has been decimated survivors gather in isolated havens spread throughout the world, controlled by a few, secretive, ideology driven factions. Within a decade, the seas were transformed into something wholly alien, and the mutagens began to invade the land through an airborne, microbial mist, killing and mutating indiscriminately.
It had a massive genome – only 1% of which matched anything in existing databases – and scientists couldn’t wait to find out what kinds of discoveries would arise from studying the contents of this Pandora’s box. In the year 2022, an unusual virus was discovered in melting permafrost which excited the scientific community. Well, this one’s made by the creator of XCOM, and it has a thrilling story, too.
