Xbox Gaming in South Africa

It's the post-apocalypse. On Earth. I think it's Earth, anyway. I mean, they never actually say where it is, not even during the 5-minute FMV that opens the game. But everyone's talking with American accents, so let's just pretend either way. So it's a post-apocalyptic let's-pretend-it's-Earth. Not entirely sure what precipitated the apocalypse in question, but it was obviously something really, you know, big and apocalyptic. Anyway, some unspecified time later, it seems two factions sort of got up from all the dust and rubble and everything. There's the Echelon, your regular butch space marine-types, who apparently survived the fallout by means of some sort of artificial hibernation, and then there's the Sai, the guys who didn't bother avoiding the fallout and got all sorts of cool mutant powers and stuff. Well, they mostly just got these dangly tentacle things that hang off their heads, but that's probably where they get their powers. Makes perfect evolutionary sense or something, apparently. Obviously the two sides don't get along, because that's no fun at all. So they spend most (all) of their time killing each other instead of doing anything tedious and practical, like rebuilding civilisation. You blunder into the midst of all this when you're yanked out of hibernation and promptly redrafted into active duty in the Echelon war effort. "Oh, hi! It's, like, four hundred years later," says a hypothetical designated waker-upper. "Here's your mech suit. Have a super day!" It might be four hundred years later, I'm not actually sure. It didn't say ...