NOTE: This is only
a partial story.
You play as Dr. Daniel Lamb a scientist
who worked for 'The Pickman Project'. 'The Project' deals
with top secret weapon experiments and is led by Dr. Whyte
and Dr Pickman. Everything looked to be going well until
the project suddenly had its funding cut due to its controversial
work methods, which meant that ‘The Project’
would be shut down indefinitely. Dr. Pickman decided that
he was close to a break through and decided to take the
project underground and continue to experiment on his own,
Daniel and his colleagues agreed to help by becoming one
of the many guinea pigs for the experiments, but due to
a defect in the treatment, unforeseen side effects began
to appear in many of the subjects so it was decided that
the only way to hide these unforeseen side effects inside
Dixmore Asylum For The Criminally Insane.
Six years later, Daniel is still inside Dixmore, at this
point he is beginning to question his own sanity and if
in fact his family and his life before being put into the
asylum actually existed. Just at that moment of doubt an
electrical storm knocks out the asylum's power resulting
in the whole security system shutting down, this is when
Daniel decides to escape with the aid of fellow inmate Leo
Kasper.
This is where you begin the game.