Released in 2001, it was Bungie West's only game. It broke new ground by blending third-person shooting with hand-to-hand combat, resulting in a unique, yet familiar game for third-person shooter enthusiasts. The IP now sits with Take2.
In 1999, while still in development, Oni won the Game Critics Awards for Best Action/Adventure Game. Two years later the game releases and sees decent scores like a 7.3 for the PS2 version of the game from IGN. Take it how you like, at the time, Oni was not a bad game and I actually remember having quite a fantastic time playing the game. To be quite frank, to me the shit was just good!
The action of Oni took place around the year 2032. The game world was a dystopia, an Earth so polluted that little of it remains habitable. To solve unspecified international economic crises, all nations have combined into a single entity, the World Coalition Government. The government was Orwellian, telling the populace that what are actually dangerously toxic regions are wilderness preserves, and using the Technological Crimes Task Force, its secret police, to spy on citizens and suppress opposition.
Konoko serves as the main character in the game that begins working for the police. Soon, she learns her employers have been keeping secrets about her past from her. She turns against them as she embarks on a quest of self-discovery. The player learns more about her family and origins while battling both the Technological Crimes Task Force and its greatest enemy, the equally monolithic criminal organization called the Syndicate. In the game's climax, Konoko discovers a Syndicate plan to cause the Atmospheric Conversion Centers, air-treatment plants necessary to keep most of the world's population alive, to catastrophically malfunction. She is partially successful in thwarting the plot, saving a portion of humanity.
