Eight years after Big Karnak, gaming would see its first Black female protagonist to head her own game(as well as the first playable female character that was African-American). D'Arci Stern debuted in the 1999 game Urban Chaos, the first game by developer Mucky Foot Productions.

Urban Chaos was an action adventure game set in the fictional Union City. It utilized a third person perspective, a unique fighting system and allowed Stern to either kill or arrest perpetrators.

As a newly minted cop with the Union City Police department, D'arci is charged with cleaning up crime in the area, leading her into a growing feud with the Wildcats, one of the city's major gangs who would become the overarching antagonists of the story.

Urban Chaos received positive reviews upon its release for computers. Later ports to console systems were not as well received due to issues with the controls and camera.