Recoil takes place at some untold time in the the semi-near [url=http://oscar.yoo7.com/javascript:void(0)]future[/url]. The Mega-Corporation has taken over most of everything. There aim is to make everything robotic, autonomous. Many people feel that they're the weakest link in a digital chain. As such, they fall to the Mega-corporation. By the time of Recoil, several renegade Mega-corporation programmers have created a ruling computer A.I. that will control all the Mega-corporation's networks, including all of it's military projects. Most Humans are enslaved by this robotic dominance. But not everyone.


A few outsiders have escaped the spell of the Network. They've formed an underground resistance; operating out of abandoned buildings and travelling at night to avoid detection by the machines. They have survived for some time, but they cannot defeat the Network by themselves. This alliance of dissidents needs help from an outsider. With some creative hacking, three of the dissidents have developed a computer program that gives them remote control over an experimental enemy tank. These rebels have also discovered a way to send the control program through a time loop to the recent past-the late 20th Century.

The Video Mail message crackles through pirate channels and hits your computer with an electronic charge. The dissidents have found you. They need you to use their hacked-out program to drive a killing machine through their war-torn world and liberate the people from computer control. When you engage the program, you take command over the Battle Force Tank (BFT), a fast, powerful and versatile war machine. The time loop allows for you to bypass viruses and other Network computer defenses, giving you direct and complete control.

A VTOL will transport your BFT to various areas, or missions. The mission basically boil down to upgrade this then destroy that. Mission objectives include,

blow up the missiles
upgrade the BFT with amphibious technology
destroy the foundry