Disaster Report, known in Japan as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi (絶体絶命都市, The Desperate City) and in the PAL region as SOS: The Final Escape, is a PlayStation 2 survival action-adventure video game created by Irem.
[8] At one point, Keith has choice of companion, Karen or Kelly, both with different areas to explore and storylines to uncover.
In a feat of revolutionary technology, the government used its top engineering talent to transform a minor spur of rock that barely stood above the ocean waves into a thriving man-made island, complete with a state-of-the-art metropolis called Capital City.
In June 2005, Keith Helm (Masayuki Sudō), the protagonist and player character is on his way to Capital City for the first time, to start his dream job as an editor for the prestigious Town Crier newspaper.
They travel together as strong aftershocks continue until they meet a man named Greg Bach (Kōji Jin'nai).
Keith reveals to the man that his business partner Albert (Takumi Hatta) caused the landslide to make him want to destroy the island.
After escaping from an attack chopper in a river chase, they are again confronted when their makeshift boat lands on the Capital District.
Terry dies with Albert and depending on the player's relationship with Karen/Kelly, either ends with the two escaping, or them holding each other as the water rises towards them.
[10] Kujo had sought to "take advantage" of the PlayStation 2's processing power to replicate the feeling of living through a disaster, "and I thought it would be entertaining if I made a game where it wasn’t aliens and monsters attacking, but the city itself being a threat".
A second sequel, Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3: Kowareyuku Machi to Kanojo no Uta, was released for the PSP on April 23, 2009.
A fourth game, Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories, was scheduled for release on PlayStation 3 in April 2011, with 3D and Move support.
In December 2020, Granzella teased that prototyping and planning for the next game in the series, currently titled Disaster Report 5, had begun.