Visually, Restricted Area gets the job done. The urban atmosphere and dirty streets look as bleak and hopeless as most cybetpunk games gone by. The worlds are large and chock full of detailed backdrops, detailed lighting effects and oodles of clutter and junked vehicles on the side of the road. (Where’s Giuliani when we need him?) The character design is nothing more than your proto-typical cyber punk fair. You have the trench coat wearing badass, the big-breasted heroin, the hot cyber nerd hacker, and a sword swinging marital arts master. Where the big twist comes to play is that you can swap out body parts, which will make you more powerful and immune to certain situations. Sure, the 2D sprites look rather 20th century, especially with Warcraft 3, Rise of Nations, and other games that are utilizing 3D technology, but old school is not always a bad thing. What is bad is that there is not a huge variety of enemies to encounter, so the game may get that not so fresh feeling a few hours in. In the end, the game looks like Diablo 2, only with mutants, guns, and a dark cyberpunk atmosphere.