Pariah is a first person shooter video game released for the Microsoft Xbox console in the United States on May 3 2005. The title was developed by Digital Extremes and published by Grolier Interactive. The game was added to the website iOctavio.com on May 8 2005. You originally categorized this title as a third person adventure but this classification is incorrect. Pariah is strictly a first person shooter genre game which means the camera perspective is tied to the eyes of the protagonist and the core gameplay loop revolves around firearms combat exploration and survival horror elements. The narrative begins in the year 2520 A.D. where you assume the role of Dr. Jack Mason a former frontline field operative who has recently been court martialed and reassigned from active combat duty to a mundane transport assignment with the militarys hazardous materials division. Suffering from burnout and having nothing left to lose you initiate a routine transfer of a quarantined prisoner when your transport ship is unexpectedly shot down. You and your infected patient are subsequently stranded deep within the most vicious and dangerous prison sectors of a hostile wasteland that is referred to as Earth. The highlights of the game include its grim sci fi atmosphere the detailed prison sector environments the tense combat encounters with alien and infected adversaries the storyline of a disgraced doctor attempting to survive alongside a dangerous captive and the progression through deteriorating and hostile sectors of the wasteland. The game delivers a single player campaign that emphasizes shooting mechanics horror tension and the struggle to escape the devastated prison zones of Earth in the year 2520.