You take on the role of Max Power, a secret agent who has just been transferred to a secret facility for extraterrestrial research and cover-up. It's your job to unravel the mystery behind the Omega syndrome.

The best part of Omega Syndrome is the character development. Although it uses the traditional method of gaining experience points for completing tasks and then exchanging them to improve stats, this has a few extra touches.

As well as the basic stats like strength, intelligence and agility, you can opt to spend your points on learning and mastering new skills like first aid or lock picking.

This not only gives the game a realm of playability outside combat, but means you can raise your party the way you want. You could opt for one combatant, one healer and one thief or you could raise an army of hybrids.

This skill system adds a lot more strategy to the game and is a welcome change from most RPGs in which stats are boosted and skills learnt automatically.

Omega Syndrome's weakness is its combat system. The battles are slow, the interface is confusing and even early on in the game the NPCs seem a bit too powerful.