Abomination: The Nemesis Project (also known as just Abomination) is a real-time tactics[citation needed]/action computer game released in 1999. In the game, the player leads a team of eight genetically altered supersoldiers (marines) to defeat an infestation of a global genetic plague which slowly turns into a superorganism. Abomination takes place in 1999 after the United States
has been almost wiped out by a deadly plague. According to the game's
manual, the disease started on the east coast, and communication with
the west coast ceased within 72 hours. The last few groups of survivors
stopped broadcasting after six days, and the overwhelming majority of
the country's population has been wiped out. Most of the remaining survivors have pledged allegiance to an apocalyptic and ultra-violent cult known as "The Faithful,", a hazily defined religion whose followers practice mortification of the flesh, as well as vivisecting themselves and others to prove the strength of their beliefs. The Faithful are eventually revealed to be at least several hundred years old, possibly originating from Tibet. The cult predicts the coming of "The Brood" and "the Elder Gods" in a Lovecraftian fashion.
The game's backstory also mentions that The Faithful are somehow connected with a strange and very old statuette, called "The Princess of Death," which resembles a cross between a Black Madonna and a prehistoric depiction of the mother goddess. Shortly before the plague first broke out, the US government suspected that the Faithful had either stolen the statue from the unspecified museum where it was kept, or that through their rituals, they caused it to explode there, perhaps disseminating one or more biological agents hidden inside. The game's opening cutscene contains no words, but suggests that the statuette may have been part of a meteorite which struck the earth long ago. The cutscene also shows the Oval Office with a figure resembling President Bill Clinton, who has obviously collapsed and died while still at his desk—within moments after he signed and issued the written orders for the emergency response plan "Project Nemesis," which can be seen in a folder there.
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