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Incedible game and a unique Idea

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this along time ago and was immersed until the end. It was on my old PC and the graphics were top notch but I could not play at full copacity...I am now going to play it on my new gaming pc and it shall rock..This game is beutiful, challenging, full of action and smarts. The idea behind the game play is awesome. The worlds and characters are realistic and belivable...so, put on that Halo and get ready to be plunged into a new futuristic world!!!

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has some of the best graphis i have seen and overal game play (once you adjust the controlls) rules. The dude that said it had too many bugs probably has a bad computer

Good idea...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not for the faint of heart! It's a hard game to describe, but it's basically a 3rd-person view type of thing with lots of depth, if a wack ending.

You play an angel named Bob who is sent from Heaven to stop evil forces from taking over the Earth. How do you stop them? With your one lone ability: bodily possession. As Bob, you can do little else than flap around and be a target (and everyone is gunning for you). But when Bob inhabits a police officer or a mindless behemoth or a pimp, it's a whole 'nother ballgame. You then have the ability to slap, punch, kick, shoot and maim your way to the head honcho himself: Satan.

Lots of violence and mayhem, and a way-too-hard to figure out stretch of logistics (at some point you'll be going online to find out what the heck you should do next, only to find out you messed up six hours ago when you didn't get the BLUE I.D. card from the security guard at the power plant, only to find out you didn't save your game far enough to be able to manipulate backwards through the game.....ugh), I don't recommend it for people looking for a simply fun game.

Great graphics, great sound and incredible depth, but too hard for even more-than-casual gamers, and with too little a payoff.

A piece of junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. There are too many bugs. The game play isn't smooth. Save your money.

Messiah

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Messiah is a third person game. Set in the future you play an angel called Bob sent from god to save the world from the bad humans. The angel is very small and weak, It can be easily killed, but it can posses any charecter it wants and take control of the charecter, Only after becoming someone it can carry weapons. The graphics and sound are average, charecter animation are not very impressive. Messiah's problems is that it is quite difficult, To posses someone you need to fly behind him and jump into his back and that is very hard to do so because of the third person camera angle. The game is quite short too.

Surprisingly good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had read all of the bad reviews for Messiah, so when I found it in the bargain bin at a local computer store..., I decided to throw caution to the wind and give Messiah a try. Perhaps the game was in pretty bad shape upon its release, but after applying the latest patch, I've found a game with rich graphics, great sound, and an interesting storyline. The control scheme could be a little more intuitive. Messiah is definitely an underrated title...

messiah, a truely great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

messiah is in a genere of its own. It mixes awsome graphics with nice sounds and great AI. The power to posses people lets you be mulitple characters through out the game. I had lots of fun playing this game(the boss is extremely hard)

Short but Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you can get this game up and running (for me it took two patches to work with my graphics card) then you will find this game to be a rare treat. Shiny have managed to skilfully combine several genre's, so that stealth, action, puzzles (admittedly few) and platform elements all merge into an enthralling experience. The nature of the gameplay means that there are multiple ways of completing each area, such as posessing people as camoflage or jumping into a heavy cop and blowing everyone away.

What mostly hit me throughout this game was the quality of the graphics. I own an Athlon 800 with a GeForce card, and even in 1024X768 resolution the level of detail was stunning without affecting the frame-rate. Each area of the environment has been lavished with attention to detail and colour, and coupled with the excelent ambient sound effects and music the atmosphere is at turns both dark and humourous. Indeed, a lot of the enjoyment with this game is aesthetic. Its also extremely violent. You can possess someone, hurl them from a roof, break their legs and then force them to crawl on their twisted limbs. The harpoon gun pins enemies to walls where they writhe in agony. And if you manage to posess a behemoth, you can mash peoples heads to jelly with your bare hands. The fact that a baby in a nappy is inflicting this punishment adds a further disturbing element. But this is Shiny, and their trademark wacky sense of humour is ever-present, lightening the mood. The only downsides to this game are that it is over far to quickly, and that it is ludicrously difficult, bordering on frustrating in places (although I did play it on the hardest difficulty level). But don't let this put you off - the open ended gamplay of this game makes it highly replayable, and it feels great to beat a tough section. In short, a classic.

An Excellent Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've read alot about other peoples problems with this game, but I have had no problems at all, even without the patch! I have a Pentium Pro 200 Mhz processer, 96 megs of RAM, a 3D Blaster Savage 4 PCI 32 MB graphics card, and a Sound Blaster AWE 32 sound card. Even though my processor is slower than the minimum requirement, the game still runs great, and there isn't much loss of detail. I'm pretty surprised that my computer hasn't crashed with this game, because most games (Half-Life, Quake 3, etc.) will lock up.

As for the game play, the game is very enjoyable, even after you beat it. Possesing people and blending in with the croud is alot of fun, as well as jumping in someones back, picking up a flame thrower, and torching everything that moves! The replay value is great, since there is always more than one way to accomplish a task. If you like either being steathy, or shooting anything that moves, you'll enjoy Messiah.

Amazing Gaming Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

An a fairly experienced gamer, I found "Messiah" to be a breath of fresh air in the glut of sub-par games out there deigned to take our valuable money. By now, you know the scheme and the tasks. Let me just say I found the game both rewarding and challenging, and appealed to all of my creative instincts that a game should appeal to. And yes, it is funny...

My computer did struggle with the game, and I did experience a few crashes. But nowadays, what DOESNT crash our computer except Microsoft Hearts and Minesweeper? I did find the patch very helpful in these situations.

If you are a gamer, I strongly recommend Messiah as your next purchase. You won't regret your choice.

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