The Solitaire Conspiracy

The player starts off as a spymaster in the service of a freelance intelligence agency called Protega. A mysterious villain known as Solitaire shut down Protega's means of communication with its field agents, and the player, with the assistance of their handler, Jim Ratio (Greg Miller), who speaks to them in FMV cutscenes, starts to rebuild the communications network by sending their spies on missions around the world. Each spy group is represented by a different deck of cards. While Ratio appears hapless at first, a spy known as Diamond (Inel Tomlinson) relays that something is wrong. The behavior of Ratio (whose name contains the letters for "traitor") is later revealed to be an act, and he is exposed as Solitaire, whose ultimate plan is to trick the player into handing him control of the spy network under the guise of working for Protega. Dropping the act, he attempts to persuade the player, but the player rebuffs him and goes rogue, cutting off communications with Solitaire. == Reception ==