

Midnight Animal is the story of John, a man haunted by the past. After twenty-five years of brutal civil wars and power struggles, a new power wrested and clawed its way to the top: the remnants of a pre-war ultranationalist movement with a murky past calling itself Fifty Blessings, it has remoulded America in its image, and has ushered in a new era - an era of great change and innovation, but one of even greater conflict, instability and fear. With the central leadership decapitated and the infrastructure crippled, the nation fell into ruin. On the 28th of December 1991, America was annihilated. Eliminate your targets using whatever means necessary – failure is not an option. As you see greater and greater success, use your profits to stock up a formidable armoury, vastly widening your arsenal of combative capabilities. Experiment with over twenty different playstyles, from sadistic mass murderer to silent assassin, each with tangible effects on the gameplay experience. Manipulate your environment to your advantage: lure enemies into improvised traps, turn the unassuming into the lethal. Blast, bludgeon, slash and stab your way through dozens of contracts using nearly a hundred different weapons, from the mundane to the spectacular.

As an operator in one of its most clandestine echelons, your job is to enforce the new order – at any cost. Welcome to their world – a world where laws are written at the barrel of the gun, and trades brokered in the currency of blood where elections are won through bullets, and politics negotiated in the rhetoric of blades. An organisation of self-proclaimed patriots from every walk of life, they have rewritten the very values which once defined their beloved nation, in order to save it from itself. Following a series of crippling terrorist attacks, America has been plunged into a state of national anarchy.
