Restricted Area is the latest action role-playing game from a small European developer. In this case, it's from two-man German developer Master Creating. The story is a fairly typical but interesting post-apocalyptic cyberpunk tale. You choose one of four characters – archetypes matching a fighter, mage, ninja and rogue – with their own history and back-story. There is a whole story involving the fall of centralized government to the rise of factionalized mega-corporations, and how these companies have developed ‘personal modification systems', which are mainly illegal but are available on the streets. You enter the scene in the city ‘hub' area where, whatever your original character and motivation, you are destined to say the same lines in the same order as the other three characters over and over.