WARNING: THE BELOW COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS ON THE GAME'S PLOT: DO NOT READ IF YOU LIKE A GOOD PLOT IN YOUR GAMES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
The whole thing of the game is that you wake up in a medbay on a
space station that is hurtling towards earth because someone sabotaged the anti-orbit machinery. You find that the space station
has several "modified" humans that are struggling to get in the
escape pods. 2 Of the 3 pods are preparing to exit, and you need to
kill the 2 "people" that are trying to get to the last pod with a
human corpse, and take the pod yourself. Then you are hurtling
towards earth, and the enemies in the other two pods are trying to
snipe you while you are going through the atmosphere. You need to use
the gun you used to kill the last 2 "people" to kill the snipers by
shooting the glass of their pods. You have a helmet on, so you can
survive.
You land safley, but your weapon is smashed. You're
unfourtonatley in the wasteland, an area that was ruined by war. You find that you are not alone. Those
corpses that the un-humans were taking earlier were unconsious before, but now
you can hear their screams as they burn alive. You walk for a long,
long time (in a cutscene, of course) until you pass out from
exhaustion. Again, you wake up in a hospital. Apparently, you were
found by a patrol and brought here. While you recover, you see 2 of
the un-humans walking towards you. They take you by the legs and drag
you out of the hospital. Once outside, you see you are in front of a
structure of epic proprtions.
You wake up. It was entirley a dream. You recover in a couple days,
and take your leave. You exit the building, to find you are in one of
the many, many areas that are sealed off from the wastes, because the
wastes are said to be infested with strange beings. Militairy
patrols, like the one that found you dissapear all the time in the
wastes. Oddly enough, you get a feeling of deja vu when you see it.
Walking trough the city, the player will be weaponless, but see the
un-humans watching you from out-of-the-way places, while you cannot
exit the sidewalk, you'll get destroyed by the Colt feild, which is
supposed to kill all who enter it so none of those creatures in the
wastes can harm the train that travels from enclave to enclave inside
a protective feild inside the Colt feild. While Gman-style un-humans
seem to be tracking you down.
You board one of those Colt trains to Enclave 72...
Sledge Hammer's pick-up lines: Your ammo dump or mine? /I feel connected to you... by handcuffs. /Where have you been all my life? Incarcerated? /How about some fine wine and pork chops?