Set in a crazed alternate future of Hong Kong Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is the prequel to the survival-horror hit Fear Effect. You play as one of four deadly mercenaries on a team that's been commissioned to bring back the kidnapped daughter of a powerful Chinese executive. The action begins with Hana Glas and Deke the three main characters from the original game meeting each other for the first time. Soon afterward they meet Rain a close friend of Hana's. Hana Glas and Deke are on separate missions to retrieve three objects but before long they realize that they're involved in the same deadly plot. The action takes the foursome through Hong Kong Hell's Kitchen in New York City the walled city of Xi'an the lost tomb of the first emperor of China and in the end to the mountain island of the immortals Penglai Shan. Then after lunch things really get crazy!