The story of VANQUISH is set in the near future. Russia and theUnited States are vying for ownership of the world?sfast-depleting energy resources and the US has constructed aspace station in order to harness energy from the sun. Russianforces capture this space station and divert its harvested solarenergy into a blast wave that destroys San Francisco aiming toforce the US into a total and unconditional surrender. Inresponse the US tasks its armed forces with recapturing thespace station before the Russians can annihilate their nexttarget ? New York.Directed by Shinji Mikami the creator of theResident Evil series VANQUISH is a sci-fi shooter that seesplayers take the role of Sam a government agent kitted out witha futuristic battle suit. A versatile fighter with a huge arsenalof weaponry at his disposal Sam also has an array of martialarts skills that he can use to take down his robot enemies.