![]() ![]() ![]() While the game is notable for its technical accomplishments (such as the well-made allied and enemy artificial intelligence for its time, a somewhat non-linear level design encouraging map exploration, a rudimentary quest system with neutral and recruitable NPCs, and a basic economic system that allowed players to hire armed muscle and buy equipment), it is more remembered because of the controversy it generated at the time of its release. What follows is Thug's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, first aimed against Nikki Blanco and then against the Kingpin's entire operation, taking him through all major districts of the city, from the outskirts through poisonous chemical plants, rusty shipyards, massive steelworks facilities, and a gigantic railroad network, right into Radio City, the heart of the Kingpin's criminal empire. For reasons unknown, Blanco wants the Thug banished from his turf, Poisonville to that end, he has his enforcers give Thug an old-fashioned No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and leave him unconscious in Skidrow, one of the outskirts ghettos of the city, with the warning never to show up in Poisonville again. Some time before the events of the game, Thug crossed paths with Nikki Blanco, head of the local Blanco Industries chemical plant, and also a resident Lieutenant of the titular Kingpin, the criminal overlord of the city. Set in an unnamed, Diesel Punk flavored, dystopic Retro Universe city, players take control of an unnamed low-level criminal (referred to as "Thug" by the in-game chat, and therefore by the game's fans as well).
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