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6 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Awesome..., 1999-12-01
Omikron pulls you into another world where 3rd person adventure is taken to a new level. The graphics are top-notch, but not perfect (Although it really isn't critical for such a game to have Quake 3 quality graphics, with such an immersive storyline) while the sound truly completes the experience. Bowie's pulsing techno-injected melodies stay with you even after the song is over. If you're looking for a serious (as in "Everquest" serious, meaning it will destroy your social life) RPG, then look elsewhere (you Dungeons & Dragons geek). If you're looknig for a new style of 3rd person RPG that evolves the genre, pick up Omikron: TNS.
4 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
GREAT!, 1999-11-23
This is such a great game. I have never seen a game that combines the 4 modes (adventure, fighting, shooting, and swimming) into one. Also, the story is very good and has a lot of puzzles. I would reccomend this game. If there was an option of 10 stars, i would give it 10 stars.
14 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
 Ummmmm... a bit overhyped., 1999-11-21
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.
10 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
this is the best game, 1999-11-18
The hype of this game is that it is a "fully-realized world" and I don't think I can argue with that. The streets are filled with people, you can be hit by cars (or sliders as they are called) heck you can even go down to a supermarket and buy some food. This game is very fun. Another excellent feature of this game is its wide variety of gameplay. Most of the time you are in adventuring mode but other times you can switch into fighting, shooting or swimming mode. The fighting mode is very fun (you have a hologram fighting program in the main characters apartment) It is not the best fighting out of fighting games but it is a lot better than some of the pure fighting games out there. The strange thing about the fighting is that there is no block button. Every person has a different skill level of fighting in the game so each person has different skills in blocking, special moves, styles etc. The fighting is excellent. The shooting is not as satisfying as the fighting because of the way it is set up. All of the enemies come out of predesigned spots so all you have to do is play the level over and over until you know exactly where the enemies will be. It is still fun but not as satisfying as the fighting. I haven't really experienced the swimming so I do not feel inclined to review it. I'm having a lot of fun with this game so I suggest that you get it.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
This game rocks!, 1999-11-17
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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