Apocalypse is a third-person shooter platform video game released for the PlayStation, developed by Neversoft Entertainment and published by Activision in 1998.

A brilliant evil scientist named "The Reverend" creates a powerful theocracy based on the idea of a rapidly approaching apocalypse.

His former colleague, Trey Kincaid (voiced by Bruce Willis), is the only man with the knowledge to stop the Reverend, but is locked up in Paradise Island Prison Facility.

Kincaid next heads to a graveyard, fighting zombies and feral wolves, before reaching a concert starring Mary Magdalene (voiced by Poe).

[2] Initially, the player character was a mercenary accompanied by an AI-controlled partner, Trey Kincaid, in an effort to create the video game equivalent of a buddy film.

[3] Activision later signed a multi-million-dollar deal for Bruce Willis to provide Trey Kincaid's voice and likeness, using "cyber-scanning" and motion capture.

[4][5] Trey Kincaid's role was eventually changed to that of the main playable character, thus reducing the necessity for him to have as much spoken dialogue as was originally intended as the scope of Bruce Willis' involvement decreased as development went on.

[citation needed] In the finished game, Willis' vocal contributions are limited mostly to the occasional one-liner and a few brief lines of dialogue in story sequences.

Even though Neversoft continued to develop and evolve the engine primarily to suit the needs of the Tony Hawk series, it was also put to use in another action title by the team, the popular Spider-Man game they released in 2000.

The aspect of the engine that allowed for the live-action music videos to be displayed within Apocalypse's game world was also utilized in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater as well as other subsequent Neversoft titles.