Anachronox Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Anachronox (released July 2001) is a computer game produced by Tom Hall and the Ion Storm games studio. It is a 3-D, third person RPG game. Development took around three and a half years.The player plays the part of Sylvester "Sly" Boots, a down-and-out detective in the slums (known as "The Bricks") of an alien world called "Anachronox". Anachronox sits inside a giant, hollow sphere called Sender One, which is the centre of the galaxy's network of space-lanes.
"Sly" travels throughout the galaxy, meeting many characters along the way, some of who can join the player's party. Just some of these characters are Pal-18, Sly's robotic buddy; "Grumpos" Matavastros, a wiley old professor; and Stiletto the leather-suited assassin.
The game has notable good music.
Since its release some fan-based updates have been produced which allow for such things as taxi-cabs from distant points, greater stability under newer versions of Windows, and enhanced save game functionality.
About three hundred years ago a number of artifacts were found. Named 'MysTech' (Mysterium Technology), they were believed to be devices left by a long dead alien race. Some of the devices were weapons, others healed and even some have not been fully understood.
A planet-sized reflective sphere, a Sender, was hovering in space. Long spikes could be seen protruding its outer shell at regular intervals. Approaching the Sender was a star pilot, who noticed a signal being transmitted by one of the spikes. He found himself accelerating toward the Sender, which led him to some sort of hyperspace tunnel and was then transported to another part of space. These came into regular use once ships had been equipped with inertial dampers. Senders later became the hubs of lucrative trade and galactic civilization. Right in the centre of the universe lay Sender One, which orbited the city of Anachronox.
It is believed that Anachronox was home to millions of quarantined aliens many years ago. These aliens are thought to have died of a horrible plague. Anachronox has now become a ruin and had become the centre of nefarious dealings in the galaxy.
Sylvester "Sly" Boots sat in Rowdy's, a seedy bar on the seediest street in a section of Anachronox called the Bricks. He has just survived an attack from a number of henchmen. Boots, having had his handiwork admired by a renegade scientist, begins a perilous journey which pits him against some of the most dangerous enemies to exist...The Background