The story in Pariah is convoluted and does a terrible job of keeping you in the loop. You play as a doctor named Jack Mason, and the game opens with Mason on a transport ship, escorting a mysterious woman who's been frozen in stasis. You're flying over the Northwest, which is enemy territory that's under control of prisoners, when missiles blast into the side of your ship, sending you crashing to the ground below. The woman escapes, and now it's up to you to find her. And apparently, she's toting some sort of virus around in her system that, as luck would have it, ends up getting transferred to you within the first couple of minutes of the game. While it starts out with a reasonable and potentially interesting premise, Pariah barely explains itself, so you're never too certain about who's who, who your enemies are, and what, exactly, you're doing.
