The game takes place in the fictional Vagner System on the edge of the known universe. The Vagner System is a frontier or wild west that is inhabitated by large corporations and pioneers looking for a fresh start or to make a quick buck. The backbone of the Vagnerian economy is the large Tannan Corporation, which has a virtual monopoloy over the Vagner System. In order to maintain law and order and to protect their interests, a group of large corporations founded the Enforcer police service in the Vagner System. In addition to the Enforcers the Guild of Bounty Hunters was established.
Gameplay is played as the character Mace Griffin, a member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters. The game plot develops as a series of missions Mace Griffin is given while working for the Guild of Bounty Hunters, during these seemingly unrelated missions Mace discovers a dark conspiracy taking place in the Vagner System involving the appearance of
mysterious black wormholes.
Three different races populate the Vagner System all settlers from their own home systems, these are humans, the Jaldari (large gorilla-like humanoids) and the Valleakan ( green lizard-like humanoids). All three races are at peace and mix freely together throughout the universe. (Wikipedia)
Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter takes place hundreds of years in the future, where both human and alien settlers are rapidly colonizing the galaxy, and places players into the role of an ex-special ops officer, Mace Griffin. Against a backdrop of corporate, political and religious intrigue, Griffin is framed for his comrades' deaths. After a ten-year stint in prison, he becomes a bounty hunter, a vocation that gives him access to classified information and a means to aggressively search for the people who set him up to fall. The hallmark of the game is its ability to seamlessly transition the player from first-person action set on alien worlds to intense combat in the depths of space.