Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-24669

Fahrenheit 451

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Release

Dec 31, 1984

Genres

Adventure

Overview

The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come not to save houses, but to burn them for the books inside. And where you, once a dedicated Fireman, are now a rebel with a passion for books --- and the most wanted fugitive in the country. An Interactive Fiction game based on the book with the same name. Set as a sequel to the book, taking place after the novel ends.

Storyline

You are Guy Montag, fugitive. Once you wore the symbolic number 451. Once you were a Fireman. Your job in life was clearly defined: to protect man from books. Books with their dangerous knowledge, books with their fact that could be twisted and molded and and used to destroy. Your job in life was to seek out and destroy these books, and hence your allegiance was to the Firemen who wore the sign of the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns: 451. Then you met the girl, Clarisse. For her, books were magical things, to be sought out and remembered, not feared. You began to challenge what you had learned from the Firemen and you…