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The tale of a nomad soul.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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

Pretty good, once you get the hang of it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It took me a while to get the hang of this game -- the controls are needlessly complicated, with different interface and controls for shooting, unarmed fights, swimming, and just walking around -- and even longer to get interested, given the constant fights (that I mostly lost at first) and the rather silly insistence that "this isn't just a game." ("Do I look like a game?" screams one polygon-heavy bad guy. Um, well, yeah, you do.) And the limited saves (like a video game) can make for a frustrating experience with lots of repeats.

All that aside, it really is a lot of fun to play, engrossing and exciting. David Bowie's music never pleased me before, but I found myself looking for it here. Also, like the best games, there are many different ways to solve the same problems and lots of stuff to find if you explore. Definitely worth the time and money, though not for the easily frustrated.

A bit dated, but still fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First things first:
For owners of Windows XP, this game will not immediately work. It was originally released a short time before WinXP was, so it is made to work on Win95/98 and ME. To get it to work on XP:

First, right click on the Omikron Shortcut on your desktop. Click the 'compatability' tab and select to have it run in WindowsNT Compatability mode. This should make it work; it may give you a 'runtime.exe' error, or incorrect CD error. In that case, you must download a nocd crack from the internet, which can easily be found via google. The game generally runs well with few graphical errors common in older games running on XP in compatability mode.

On to the game itself:

This game is a lot of fun if you can get past the dated graphics. This can be more of a problem that it usually is in good older games since alot of the plotline is dependant on the 'this is not a game' aspect. Still, the adventure, fighting and first person shooter elements work together well (with the fighter and FPS elements complimenting the adventure game; don't expect to spend equal amounts of time adventuring, fighting and FPSing) and the atmosphere is top-noch and very Blade-Runner esque.

So, if you're jonesing for an adventure game with a good storyline and lot's of atmosphere, this game is for you. At the price most sellers have it at, it can't be beat.

GREAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 23, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

I've seen this game trashed over and over...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

More addictive than any drug out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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!

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

This game is worth buying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Omikron has been one of the best games I ever played(and I play lot's of games=). It has an interesting plot as well as kicking graphix. It blends action/adventure and some RPG and strategy into one awsome game, I'd say it's a job well done=) so I definitely recommand this one if you are into action, adventure, or RPG games and if you got some extra cash floating around=)

i really loved omikron

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Omikron was a pretty fulfilling game. The realistic environment and cities were so refreshing. The game caters to several different genres and is anything but linear (linear games bore me very quickly). The game has an interesting story line and so many choices of things to do, I was entertained for many hours and visits to my computer. I would highly recommend.

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