The Story


street-sky pic

 


Kickstand

The game opens with a short narrative by Ben that foreshadows the whole storing. As he's speaking the camera pans down a canyon onto a road. A limo drives by and the point of view switches to that limo. Inside is Old Man Corley, Ripburger, and his two goons. Ripburger tries to convince Corley to hire a biker gang to escort them to the shareholers meating that they are on their way to. Of course his real reason for the escort isn't given though. Over in the Kickstand, a roadside bar, your gang is worried about their finances. "Ben. You know, we're broke, Ben." Just about then, a nice limo pulls up to this shack of a bar. Malcom Corley, the owner of Corely Motors, the only and last make of quality road-hogging bikes, steps in. Outside Ripburger talks with his goons, Bolus and Nestor. "What's talking so long," Ripburger asks. One of his goons suggests that your gang may have "worker him over with a 2x4." Ripburger tells them probably not, but that that is a good idea. (Hint, hint: that's foreshadowing.)


 


On the Road

Once you get away from the Kickstand you start down the road after your gang. On the way you meet a Rottwheiler. No problem, you finish him off quick. You pop a wheely to take off down the road when your front tire falls off! You try to hold the wheely, but it's too hard and you land on your forks. Sparks are flying everywhere and you loose control. You wipe out in the middle of the desert and you go unconcious. You wake up for a second and find that it's night, but you soon slip back out of conciosness. While you're sleeping, someone with femenine voice finds you, takes some pictures of you, then takes you to get some help.

You wake up in some shack. Some alien creature is standing over you. As your eyes focus you see that it's not an alien, but a someone with a welding mask on.

She introduces herself as Mo. She says she's a mechanic, and a pretty good doctor too. She fixes your bike, but she needs three things to complete it. Fuel, forks, and her stolen welding torch.

 


Melonweed

First you head over to Todd's trailer. You bust into the trailer knocking Todd out. In the basement you find Mo's torch. You also find a lock pick and use it to get a lock. You throw it on the gate to the junk yard and sneak in. After taking care of the guard dog, you find some forks for your bike and take 'em over to Mo's. You make back to the fuel tower. You start up the ladder but once you touch it alarms go off. You jump off and hide behind some stuff in the back. Some guards land and head up the tower to look for you. As they're up in the tower, you sneak over to their hoversled. You start to siphon off some gas. You're almost done, but they catch you. You bolt out of there as fast as you can. Once you get a chance, you stop and check how much fuel there is. It'll be enough. You take it back over to Mo's. Now, you just need Mo to fix the bike up completely and you're on your way.

 



Roadstop

Old Man Corley's taking pit stops right and left. You catch up with the gang at one of those stops. You talk to your gang trying to figure out what's going on. Your gang seems to be confused as to what they're exactly supposed to be doing
Meanhwile, on the other side of the pit stop, Malcom's just getting out of the bathroom, singing the whole way, when Ripburger comes around and beats him in the head with his cane! Being the investigative reporter that she is, Miranda is hiding in the bushes out of sight taking pictures of the whole thing. Right about then, though, Bolus, one of Ripburger's goons, catch her. She manages to escape, but without taking her camera with her. It's still in Bolus' possession. Just then you approach, looking for Corley. Ripburger notices you before you come around the corner and takes off before you can see him.

You find Corley on the ground in a pool of blood. He's dying and you know it. Colrey's last wishes are for you to have his daughter, the "Diapered Dinamo," take over the company, not Ripburger. The only problem is: you don't know who his daughter is. Is it Mo? That can't be, can it? You now know what you must do. Go to Corley Motors and find Corley's last will and testament. How to get there though?
You go back to Mo's, looking for clues, but only find a broken camera. Where would Mo have run off to? She said she goes to her Uncle Pete's Mink Farm when things get bad. Maybe she went there.

 


The Mink Farm

Now that you have remember that Mo is going to her uncle's mink farm, you head over there. But wait! There's a roadblock. How can you get past that? You head back to the Kickstand to find an answer to that?

You find a interesting character named Emmet. He won't take you anywhere though, because of the road block. Alright, you start looking around. In the back, in a familiar dumpster, you find Miranda. She tells you to take a fake ID to talk to her editor. (Yeah, like you're going to do that for her.)

After getting a fake ID from Miranda, you convince this freight trucker to give you a ride in the hidden cargo area of his freighter truck. He takes a fuel line hose from your bike before you realize it though, and have to find one up in Mo's bedroom trunk. Just as you find the hose though, you look out the window just in time to see Mo peel out of here down toward Corley Motors, after taking your rocket booster fuel first, of course.

 

Mine Road
entering cave

The Old Mine Road

You take the off-ramp to the Old Mine road. The first person you find is Father Torque. He used to be the leader of the Polecats, but he retired and gave the position to you. He is sort of your mentor. You ask him for advice but he doesn't give you a whole lot of valuable info. He says that he's retired and you're the leader now so you should figure out what to do on your own. He does give you quite a few hints though. After you finish talking to him go off in search of fights on the Old Mine road. You make a good collection of weapons and items from various bikers on the road. For instance, you get a chainsaw, a chain, you can use the tire iron, fuel for your rocket booster, and some special cavefish goggles. Your favorite deterant was the fertilizer though. You just tossed it in the chainsaw girl's eyes and she was out like that! Now, you need to find that pesky Cavefish hideout Father Torque was talking about. The Cavefish have Ricky Miron's ramp and you need it.
You put the special Cavefish goggles on. Through the goggles you find the secret cavefish entrance. You drive back into the cave a little way before you actually find the ramp. You hook it up to your bike and drive off with Ricky Miron's ramp. As you drive off you notice that the cavefish are catching up fast so you drop off the ramp. They think that Ricky's ghost is moving the ramp around and they take it back to it's original position. Once they leave, you go and pick up the rmap again. This time, you mess up the road reflectors a little to throw the cavefish off your tail. Father Torque told you that they can barely see and the goggles use the road reflectors to know where they are going. Once you remove some of them, they get lossed and fall off the road into a lower cave level.

 

The Vulture Hideout

You finally make it Corley Motors. Just behind it is Mo's hideout, the Vultures. (So that's where she learned how to make the rocket booster in the first place.) Unfortunetly, you can't get inside because they've boarded themselves up behind a minefield. You end up making it past the Vulture minefield with the help of some fake bunnies, just to walk into the Vulture camp where, suddenly, a bunch of bright lights flash on and blind you. You can make out several figures standing under the lights. There's Mo! Before you realize what's hapenning though, they string you up between four motorcycles. One for each limb.
You talk your way out of that situation and show the pictures to Mo. The Vultures agree to help get Ripburger. Your plan is to win a bike at the Destruction Derby that Mo built with her father that has the code words on it. The "Boom-Boom Brothers," Bolus and Nestor, show up to try to stop you, but they meet with an unexpected death as you get away.
With the bike, you find the passcode. Mo tells you of a secret entrance in the back of the factory and you go off to search for it.

 

The Factory

You manage to find the secret entrance Mo told you about. Finding the right rock to kick was pretty difficult though. The passage leads you directly to Corley's office. You decide to take a look around, but once you start out of the office a guard comes and chases you back to hiding in the passage. Once he leaves, you decide to check out Corley's stuff. You use the code 154492 from one of the parts from the disassembled bike to open the floor safe. Inside, you find an access card and a film, Corley's will. You trot into the hallway. There are several doors. The one on the far wall is locked and there's no lock you could mess with or anything like that. You try the next one to the right.

It is a room with a bunch of presentation hardware. There is a middle-aged, harsh-voiced woman running the stuff. Before she notices you, you watch Ripburger talking to the shareholders. After a fake concern for Corley, he announces "the future of Corley motors." Minivans. You start talking to yourself after he finishes. Mavis hears you and notices you and calls security. You run off and hide in the secret passage you came in through.
You go back into the hallway once the guards gone. You go in the last door, the one on the far right. You use the card that you got from the safe. Once in there, you mess with the projector and burn up the film. Mavis goes in there to check it out. Once she gets involved in that you head back to the film room. You put on Corley's will over the speakers, then the pictures of Ripburger killing Corley. It's all over for Ripburger now. He runs out before you can grab him. Mo ends up taking over the company. But what hapenned to Ripburger?

minivan

 

Truck Acrobatics

You bike off into the sunset with Mo behind you. You and Mo are talking about your plans for the future. Then tragedy strikes! A freight truck comes up behind you and rams you. Luckily you and Mo hang on to the freighter and your bike is stuck on the grill.

You reach down for Mo to help her up but she slides under the bottom of the freighter. You hope she's still holding on under there. Meanwhile you have to stop this truck to save yourself and Mo. You get Ripburger to stick his cane out and you take it from him. You open the grill and jam it into the fan. You crawl throught the engine compartment and end up behind Ripburger's cab. You loosen a fuel lind and pull it. Ripburger sees you and turns around. He aims his gun at you but Mo jumps into the cab from the side of the truck and makes Ripburger miss you.

Just then the Vulture hideout comes rolling up behind you. The big cargo mouth opens and "swallows the truck." You and Mo fall off the truck, as well as your bike, but Ripburger stays in there cooped up firing at anyone who moves.

You make your way passed Ripburger's firing just to make it to a fried cockpit. Ripburger's guns destroyed it while trying to hit you. Luckily the computer still works. You try several things like brakes, and the emergency chute, but it's all broken. Then you have an idea! The landing gear. You raise it and the cargo plane starts skidding along down the road. You just hope it stops before you get to the gorge.

Ripburger pulls out a pistol to start killing people but you launch yourself from the cockpit into his cabin and wrestle with him. Lucky for you it does! However, the momentum from the plane's stopping propelles the freight truck through the mouth of the plane and hangs out of the plane while the whole thing teeters over the edge of the gorge. You and Ripburger are thrown out on the truck. Rip's jacket catches on one of the guns he was shooting at you earlier with. You are still in the cabin of the truck.

After Corley falls to his death, you perform some nifty looking acrobatics and end up in the plane at the back of the truck. Unfortunetly for you, all the Vultures get scared and run out the back of the plane and thus end the counter-balanicing effect. You walk to your left a little and find your bike sitting there. You jump on and start up as fast as you can. As you jet out of the rear end of the plane, a fireball explosion chases you out. Luckily though, you just barely make it out. How dramatic!

truck acrobatics
open cargo plane

fight between Ben and Ripburger

 

Corley's Funeral

After all this, you attend a funeral for Malcolm Corley. There is a mile long row of bikers in tribute and memory of the greatest biker. Father Torque spoke at the funeral. (In this scene, you can really tell that Father Torque's voice is done by the same guy that did Corley.) The Vultures were there, some of your gang, and Mo. After the funeral you have a talk with Mo in her limo.

You know it won't work out, she's in a different league now. In the middle of your talk, she gets called on her cellular phone. She tries to deal with something about the factory. You finally give up and leave her to her destiny. You get on your bike and right off into the sunset.

funeral
limo ride

 

The Credits

The credits roll with the sunset in the background. The soundtrack is played in the background as well. After, and during, the credits, there's some fun stuff. There's a special haiku section and some fun "Thank You's" to some odd animals. Especially usefull, according to the credits, are the forty trained llamas. After the credits are over, the bunnies make a return cameo appearance. Oh, how cute...

sunset
bunnies