The game takes place in the year 2053 when space travel between
Earth and
Mars is made possible thanks to the UN's goal to conduct space travel. But with the presence of a mysterious terrorist group called
Neo Kleit preparing to oppose to the UN's attempt to expand on space travel, a UN-established counter-terrorist unit called
Shadow Sword is called in by the
International Cosmic Security System or
I-COSS to eliminate the group and protect the space development program and civilians with the help of a high-tech computer surveillance system called
Project Surveillance. As
Shadow Sword continues to protect civilians in their space travel and hunt down terrorist members of
Neo Kleit, the unit gets tangled in a black ops project that involves genetically enhanced creatures with some
Shadow Sword operatives killed while trying to find out who was responsible for the project's existence.
Characters All of the characters were both created and animated by
Production I.G. The Shadow Sword team was described as being similar to the Policenauts team in
Konami's
Policenauts. • ''''
(Kenichi Suzuki) is a Japanese Shadow Sword operator and commanding officer of the team. He is a lieutenant colonel and an ex-JGSDF officer who had served in the 1st Airborne Brigade in its 4th Airborne Infantry Battalion. He is in charge of using the Project Surveillance'' system to direct his comrades in the field. •
Edward Banfield (Yūichi Nagashima), referred to as Ed by his friends, is a British Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
major. He's Shadow Sword's lone
electronics warfare officer, and he is quite knowledgeable on the use of
The Surveillance due to time spent on the system related to his position. •
Maurice Bilal (
Nobuo Tobita) is a British Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
major. He was trained with the
United Kingdom Special Forces on
explosive ordnance disposal and serves as the team's demolitions expert. •
Amanda Grace (Junko Noda) is the only female Shadow Sword operator, also experienced in
explosive ordnance disposal. •
Nicholas Gump (Takashi Nagasumi), referred to as Nick by his friends, is an American Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
lieutenant colonel. He's in charge of the team's logistics. •
Steve Hammond (Yasunori Matsumoto) is an American Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
captain. He's the team's
trained sniper and had once participated in the
Olympic Games, which gives him self-confidence. •
Ned Hardy (
Kiyoyuki Yanada) is an American Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
lieutenant colonel. He had been formerly under the . •
Charlie Hix (
Katsuyuki Konishi) is an American Shadow Sword operator with the rank of
major. He has the smallest stature of any of the Shadow Sword operators, which allows him to conduct
rappelling without running into any kind of problem. •
Jim Perkins (Hiroyuki Yoshino) is a former
United States Air Force Astronaut trainee, who is recruited to Shadow Sword. •
Milliana Isakovich (Eriko Kawasaki) is a Russian Shadow Sword scientist with the rank of
lieutenant colonel. She had formerly served in the
Russian Ground Forces as its leading scientist and scholar at its gene research academy before she was asked by International Cosmic Security System to serve under Shadow Sword. •
Tim Lawper (Satsuki Yukino) is an American Shadow Sword operator assigned in a non-combat role as adviser and communications specialist to the entire team with the rank of
captain. She was with the before joining the group. ==Production==