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Summary: An ethereal, surreal adventure!
Review: Although I haven't gotten very far in this game as of yet, This game has to have the most interesting premise I've ever experienced with any game. The characters could have used a little work but otherwise this game is quite challenging and fun. I love how they put David Bowie in this game. Excitingly original. I'm glad someone finally made a game where you can just. . . . . live. I am having problems though. I seem to be stuck at a certain part of the game. I am trying to get into the ventilation duct into Commandant Ghandar's office. Someone please e-mail me and tell me how to pass it.
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Summary: You can drive the cars!
Review: Despite what you may have read, by pushing manual in the caller, you can drive where ever you what! It's not all that great but i cant stand a review that is not correct!
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Summary: This game rocks!
Review: Great graphics! Intriguing story! Ambient music! It has it all, adventure, first person shooter, action, puzzles, hand-to-hand fighting! I don't play these types of games but played the demo and was hooked! The shooting scenes are a bit difficult. Over all the game is a must have.
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Summary: An okay game
Review: I bought this game b/c I read about it in a gaming magazine. I like it, but it is really hard. You know how TR3 just isn't as fun as the original? Well, this game is kind of disappointing like that. You spend a lot of time just walking around the cities and trying to figure out what to do. I had to buy a guide to get me through it b/c I was stuck. Turns out I missed a lot of stuff in the beginning and had to start all over. I don't really recommend this game. It isn't that great.
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Summary: Very, very good adventure game
Review: I don't play many games, but this one intrigued me - it had an interesting story, excellent graphics, and incredible cut-sequences. I'm not too far into it yet, but so far the story and the main interface is immersive.The main problem with this game is in it's "alternate" user interfaces, for the game actually has four modes: adventure, fighting, shooting and swimming. An somewhat uneasy transition takes you from one mode to another. Shooting mode is a traditional first-person shooter; however, it's one of the worst I've ever seen. It's fortunate you don't have to spend much time in this mode. Adventure and fighting modes are adequate; not the best I've seen, but they don't detract from the excellent story. Overall, I'd recommend this game.
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Summary: The tale of a nomad soul.
Review: I highly reccommend this game to any adventure game fans. This was an excellent game brought to us by the French developer Quantic Dream. The people working there have completed a true masterpiece. The plot draws you in right from the start, your soul has been transferred to an alternate futuristic dimension that is reminiscent of Blade Runner. You have to save the world of Omikron where the citizens souls are being captured and put into slavery by a race of demons. The story is excellent, as well as many of the other elements. Excellent graphics, there are four cities that have an amazing amount of detail and intricacy. Being that you are a wandering soul, you have the ability to incarnate into different peoples bodies to aid in your quest. This game is mostly third-person, but there are also several first-person shooting sequences as well as fighting and swimming sequences. This game is very fun to play, and I had a hard time turning off the computer after a few minutes of playing it. The system requirements are a bit steep (disregard what it says on the box, trust me). I played it on a AMD 366 with a Voodoo2 and it still had a significant amount of lag. The optimum system I played it on was a Pentium 550 with a TNT2 card, and full installed at a whopping 1.6 gigabytes (because of the characters speech), if you meet these standards the game will be flawless. The only minuses of this game were the repetetive character skins walking around the city streets and the shooting sequence. If more chracter models were added and the shooting sequence dropped it would be a perfect game. This is definetly one to buy, and i can't wait for the upcoming sequel Omikron 2
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Summary: I've seen this game trashed over and over...
Review: I'm frankly sick of it. there are different controls for different modes. You can't handle that?I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. As for the quality of the modes, the regular mode is simply incredible, although shooting and fighting lack in a few areas, they are minute. People talk like this should have been all three types of game perfected. Ridiculous as few of each type are perfect. Granted they could have jus stuck to one but I'm fine with all fo them. FPS mode--the movement is slow but so is System Shock 2's. The weapons are well done and the enemies seem at least somewhat intelligent. They pop up randomly not because of a bug but because this is more of an arcade-ish than strategy game. The puzzles can be frustrating (I'm stuck at a point knowing nothing of what to do at the moment) but are usually well done. Fighting mode can be frustrating for inexperienced, or not so good, players like myself but there is a simple answer: put the punch and kick keys in a row, for example, mine are asdf. simply hit them over and over and you'll get it...eventually. or simply use one of the trainers out there and ignore those and simply worry about the main part. David Bowie's incorporation is highly original, and admittedly one of the reasons for my purchase. The problems stated seem to be system specific (games cannot, at least not very easily, be made to fit ALL systems) I have no problem with sound or anything on my horrible little 4meg LT Rage Pro. I use a medium cut off point and max out everything else and it runs perfectly (p2 450, 128 RAM) An excellent game.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm shocked that anyone would even give this game a bad review. If the game doesn't work on your PC. You should definately read the requirements before purchasing. Common sense. All in all this game is one of my favorite games of all time! It took a twist in gaming history! It's a Role Playing Game, Action game, Shooting, and Adventure game all in one! Now how many games now days have all four of those genres in one? None! Exactly! You basically are warped into a different world when you play this game. Some people might complain about having to walk around endlessly which is not true. One thing i'm noticing people having trouble grasping with this game is that it's a "realistic" environment. Some people are too used to video games that have levels and are too fake. This game kicks those aside and draws you in. Grab this game if you ever see it in stores. It's worth the few bucks.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm shocked that anyone would even give this game a bad review. If the game doesn't work on your PC. You should definately read the requirements before purchasing. Common sense. All in all this game is one of my favorite games of all time! It took a twist in gaming history! It's a Role Playing Game, Action game, Shooting, and Adventure game all in one! Now how many games now days have all four of those genres in one? None! Exactly! You basically are warped into a different world when you play this game. Some people might complain about having to walk around endlessly which is not true. One thing i'm noticing people having trouble grasping with this game is that it's a "realistic" environment. Some people are too used to video games that have levels and are too fake. This game kicks those aside and draws you in. Grab this game if you ever see it in stores. It's worth the few bucks.
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Summary: Ummmmm... a bit overhyped.
Review: I've been reading a lot of online game reviews wetting their pants over this title, and I'm also a Bowie fan, so I really wanted to check it out. Everybody is saying this game promises a HUGE, fully-realized virtual reality. Well, I'm sorry, it's not--not for me anyway, not at the moment. The graphics are gorgeous, the controls smooth, the story excellent, the sound wonderful. And yet... the moment the game started and I saw that the "camera" trailed along behind my character instead of being in first-person perspective, I found it impossible to make that leap of faith that I was looking forward to so much. Instead, as I played, I kept watching my character walk about and thinking things like, "Wow, I wonder how much work it took to get the shadow beneath him to move so smoothly." Omikron allows you to do a ton of things like in real life, that's true, but there really isn't THAT much you can do here apart from playing the game despite what all the magazines would have you believe. There aren't even THAT many non-plot characters to interact with despite claims to the contrary. You can, of course, buy David Bowie albums and bring them home to your virtual apartment to play, but as those same songs are on the new album "Hours" I can just as easily do that in real life while playing the game itself, so that doesn't impress me overall. The game has REALLY fantastic design and camera angles--even though the camera angles are HORRIBLY confusing when trying to move around. The bottom line is, to buy into Omikron, you have to buy into the perspective which the game presents you with. If only this was a first-person point of view, it would be perfect and everything I could have asked for. As it currently stands, when I play it I feel like I'm a mere observant, not a participant.
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