"Restricted Area’s visuals are excellent tile-based goodness, running on the proprietary IRIS engine created specifically for the game. The character models are great, although I wish there were some way to change costumes as the game progresses. There are some fine weather effects like rain or fog in varying degrees of intensity and the use of moving shadows here is remarkably realistic. You’ll also see some great explosions from those barrels mentioned above, smoke and steam issuing from pipes and grates in the factories and even bullet holes that show up in walls. While the default graphics setting makes wonderful use of dynamic lighting throughout the game, some of you may want to turn the effect off just so you can see more of the detailed environments. Playing with the lights on makes for an almost different experience as you won’t feel so creeped out every time you enter a new room."
Rating: 8.2 / 10

Link: Read the full review

The rules and skill describtions are online!

Link: Rules and Skills

The FAQs are online (Support page) - expect more updates on the site during the next days!

Link: FAQs

Restricted Area has been shipped to stores! If you want to know where you can buy it, follow this link:

Link: GET IT NOW!

"Restricted Area seems to take the best parts of several of my favorite games and puts them into a single product."

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Link: GIN Review

"The graphics are of a caliber I have not seen in an RPG from this perspective before. This is one game I can defiantly not wait for the final build."
Link: NLgaming.com preview

"Meet the love child of Fallout and Diablo!"
Link: Gamespy.com preview

"Action/RPG fans should have a blast with Restricted Area."
Link: Gamechronicles.com preview

"All of the enemies expired in appropriately gruesome fashion, and looked great doing it. In fact, the entire game looks fabulous."
Link: Gamingnexus.com preview

"The only complaint I have is that the version I played was a limited version."
Link: Loadedinc.com preview

Convince yourself - download the english demo of Restricted Area now!

Link: Demo Download

This less than 20 MB trailer in WMV format shows in-game action and cutscenes!

Link: Trailer Download

We are happy to announce the international RESTRICTED AREA publishers! While Noviy Disk (Tomb Raider 5, Commandos 3) will publish it in Russia, SeVeN M (Driv3r, Sid Meier´s Pirates) in Hungary and Topware (Earth 2160, Castlestrike) in Poland, Whiptail Interactive (Gangland) will be Restricted Area publisher in the rest of the world, including - but not limited to - USA, Asia and Europe!

Link: Press release (english, pruned)

We are proud to announce that RESTRICTED AREA has been nominated in five categories for the German Developer Awards:

- Best PC Game (Fullprice)
- Best Community Support
- Best Interface
- Best Story/Gameworld
- Best Gamecharacter(s)

After the great reviews in Germany last week, Restricted Area finally hit the shelves! Entering Amazons Top 10 lately and already sold out in some of the major stores, it seems as if the former sleeper becomes a big success!

The Restricted Area homepage has been redesigned and looks like it´s German counterpart restrictedarea.de now! During the next days and weeks the website will be continuously updated until the game is finally released everywhere - and even longer.

Link: restrictedarea.de

RPGdot.com published a preview:

"So how does it feel? After all the theory let´s talk about a few impressions collected in the short playing session. The action was clearly faster than in other action RPGs. Sometimes the game threw a dozen enemies at once on the main char. Very direct gameplay without unnecessary sentimentality. All the action and effects had no performance impact whatsoever, it was always fluid. The interface was very good, apart from the few problems mentioned above, which is normal in an alpha version. It´s hard to say anything definitive about the technical aspects because dungeon graphics and music were still work in progress. The part of the old sound track I heard - I guess this is the one which will be the bonus on the DVD- sounded a bit like Quake. To summarize it, Restricted Area felt like sci-fi Diablo meets Crusader."

Link: Preview -- Interview

German version gone GOLD! We´ll let you know as soon as we have news on the English version!

For all that didn´t had the opportunity to see it on the Games Convention, Europe´s largest computer- and videogame expo, here´s the offical Games Convention trailer for download!

Link: Trailer Download