.hack//OUTBREAK

.hack//Outbreak is the third part in a series of four PlayStation 2 video games based within the .hack universe. The game simulates an MMORPG entitled The World and accomplishes this without requiring the player to ever actually venture online. The game is part of a serial storyline, with each of the four games slowly released over the course of a little over a year. .hack//Outbreak's storyline, preceded by .hack//Infection and .hack//Mutation, is followed by .hack//Quarantine. Each installment of the game is accompanied by a DVD containing an episode of the .hack//Liminality OVA series. The... four episodes happen in the real world, as opposed to the fictional MMORPG, The World, in which the game takes place entirely in. The events of Liminality take place alongside those of the games. The games themselves feature a linear storyline that concludes in each installment with the player receiving a Data Flag. Once the Data Flag has been received, the file may be converted to the next game, allowing a player to start each additional chapter with any items and level ups they may have had on their original file.
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