At the start of the game, the player has to hack into the fictional Magna Ltd. in order to access the gameworld. The original game was shipped without any instructions on how to do this, so it was more similar to a real hacking situation. Magna Ltd. has a plan for world domination, but it has been stolen and it's the player's job to retrieve the document. The corporation states that the document must be retrieved to stop the U.S. government from stopping their plan, but the player's objective is to retrieve the document and hand it over to the government to stop Magma Ltd.
Using the Magma company's network, the player remotely controls a robot through a network of secret tunnels around the world. The robot can surface and interact with people at various points on the globe in order to bargain the retrieval of the document.