In The Longest Journey, players learned that the Earth exists as two halves... both never seeing one another but existing together as parallel worlds. The world of Stark is where science and technology are the primary driving forces behind it and those that live there. As a result, the people of Stark live upon a futuristic version of our Earth. The other world, Arcadia, is one where magic continues to hold sway over a land filled with the trappings of faerie-tale inspired fantasy. April Ryan, the unwilling protagonist of The Longest Journey, was an art student living in Stark before she was swept up in the events that would make her the reluctant savior of both.

To her friends in Stark, April's apparent disappearance at the time she had gone over to Arcadia has continued to be a mystery that has troubled them. At around the same time, the world has found itself the victim of a calamity called the Collapse, when technology suddenly failed and all contact with Earth's colonies were severed. In the ten years since then, humanity managed to pick itself up from these events but the world had significantly changed. A wireless network called the Wire was created, linking anything with an electric heartbeat into one, unified whole, communicating across the world. It is illegal to destroy Wire receivers and transmitters, but the Wire is not without its critics and a black market thrives in items that can 'break' the link that devices have with it.

Enforcing the protection of the Wire and of the laws that govern the world is an omniscient organization known only as the Syndicate, formed from the chaos of the Collapse. Through the EYE, its multinational enforcement arm, the Syndicate ensures that corporations continue to work within the law. More often than not, they are a police force that operates across all nations and ruthlessly enforces the law with little compassion, partly as an attempt to ensure the prevention of another Collapse.

System requirements :
Windows XP (SP2) - 512 MB RAM; Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, AMD Sempron 2800+, or better processor; 8x speed CD-ROM or 2x DVD-ROM drive; 7 GB free disk space; DirectX 9.0c (included); 128 MB 3D hardware accelerator card, DirectX 9.0c compatible with latest drivers; DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card.
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