The setting consists of three areas, which the player will switch between as the story progresses: the Downtown District, the Residential District, and the Industrial District. Each district is depicted as its own individual island. The game is set in an unspecified time period—conflicting sources suggest anything from "three weeks into the future",[63] to the year 2013,[64] while the game itself features several references to the "new millennium" that is coming, implying that the year is 1999.[64]