 Good game, 2000-06-20
This is a great game. Great graphics and a great story line. For me the game has ONLY one flaw which are the first-person shooter sequences. You would think that with the quality of everything else that went into it the programmers would create at least a passable shooter sequence. If you haven't guessed by now, the shooter sequences are not that good and do not 'feel' like the rest of the game. To further provide an analogy, it is like you are playing a great game like "Privateer2: The Darkening" and then out of the blue you are playing 1980s "Space Invaders". With all of the other technological wonders of this game, that is the one part that sticks out like a sore thumb. The hand-to-hand fight sequences are excellent, the storyline is superb and the graphics are high quality. David Bowie's music adds a poetic flavour to this cyber-world of Omikron and I would highly recommend his new album called 'Hours' which has some of the soundtrack to this great game. In summary, if you can put up with the near impossible shooter sequences, this is a terrific game.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
The tale of a nomad soul., 2000-06-09
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
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 More addictive than any drug out there, 2000-05-26
Whoa! This game is awesome! Think of a game that is really addictive, then double it's addictiveness and then triple the doubled portion! This game rocks! I'm a big gaming fan and I like a lot of different gaming genres like shooting, adventuring, puzzle solving, and whooping anyone who messes with you. If you don't like any one of those genres, don't get this game because you won't like it. The game is a mix of Half-Life, Teken, and something like Quest64. The two bad parts about this game are the fact that your computer has to generate an ENTIRE city of moving people, sliders, and transport ship things flying over head. Takes a lot of power to play. The second is the save interface, it's kind of like Tomb Raider but the interlocked rings (save crystals) are more abundant, but everytime you save you will use a magical ring. The rings are somewhat scarce in the begining of the game but then they are abundant. It takes practice at the fighting scenes, but you really can get good at them. It would be a mistake not to buy this game!
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Original and entertaining but not without problems, 2000-05-05
This game has intrigued me ever since I saw the ads in game magazines. Now having expended close to several weeks effort on the game I can only say that the game is original, entertaining and fun if you can overlook some of the faults in the design. You play a 'nomad soul' that jumps from body to body living and interacting with the game world as a host of different people. Each new person you inhabit has his/her problems and goals which you try to solve as that character. The good parts: a great story, an original idea (for a PC game), smooth 3D graphics, a chance to experience several different lives in a single game. The not-so good parts: clumsy controls (expecially combat) and the fact that while you can generally control when you want to jump bodies, at several points this is forced by the game (usually just when you thought the current one was perfect). It may just be me, but I don't really like being railroaded just because the storyline demands it. The new game 'Messiah' has a similar idea but allows you total control over when you want to enter or leave host bodies. Also you may want to web over to the publisher's website to check for patches - the game seemed a little unstable, at least on my PC that no amount of tinkering with drivers, Direct3D, etc could fix.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Greatest Adventure/Action game I have ever played!, 2000-03-25
This was a truly fabulous game. The graphics are great and the sound/voices were the best I've heard yet. Gameplay was hard so I did buy the Prima Guide for it. Overall the game sucked me right into the action and I never left!
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