After the nuclear holocaust was over, the real killing began. Phoenix was a survivor, an expert with any weapon, a master at hand-to-hand combat. He forged his way across what was left of the U.S., driven by hatred and thirsting for revenge against the supreme ruler of an almost extinct world—Dark Messiah.

Crossing the nuclear devastated landscape on his way to New York, Magnus Trench, also known as Phoenix, encounters a deadly new sport in the ruins of Las Vegas

Magnus Trench, known as Phoenix, tries to escape from the Dark Mesiah and is caught between violent revolutionaries and a repressive, post nuclear war government

Phoenix and a beautiful psychic named Raven came to the nuclear graveyard of Houston to find the key to treasure. But they were captured by the Dark Messiah's stormtroopers and forced to play Metalstorm. Its rules were simple: there were none. And the winner? No one knew, for no one had ever survived.