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Very, very good adventure game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

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=)

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 is the best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

Ummmmm... a bit overhyped.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: November 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

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.

Awesome...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 01, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

An ethereal, surreal adventure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 09, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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.

A thorough and unbiased review, trust me and read it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: December 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Please read this review. Try to disregard the fanatical praises heaped on it by all the others that have succumbed to the rediculous amount of hype piled on the game. You'll thank me for it some day.

Ok, I'll admit i was suckered into buying this game just because Bowie was in it. I am still, however, a hardcore gamer. I've spent plenty of hours on Everquest, Tribes, Quake 3, Starcraft and plenty of others. So I know a quality game when I see one.

We'll start with graphics. First off, you need to be running a very high end machine for this game to look decent. I'm running a 'pitiful' P2 450 w/ 256 megs RAM, and a Voodoo 3 2000, and I needed to set the game to 800 x 600 with all the detail levels at medium for this game to have a tolerable framerate. I can run Quake 3 at 1024 x 768 and almost maximum settings, and its by far a much better looking game anyways.

And this MUCH HYPED facial moting capture? Its AWESOME, BUT THE PEOPLE DONT $#$%# BLINK! Thus shatters the illusion of emotion, as all the characters stare at you creepily like retarded zombies. Come on, how the heck did Quantic Dream miss that? Plug in your old Nintendo and you'll see that even the original Super mario Brother blinked! Cripes.

The setting is well done, if not original. Sort of 5th Element meets Dune. The plot is obscure at first and there's little to get you interested. it does get better, but there's one main problem. . .

the play mechanics suck BIG TIME in all modes of play! This is typical of games that try to cover too many areas. Rather than excell in one singular aspect (like Quake 3, Tribes or EverQuest) it spreads itself very thin and comes out mediocre at best.

the First Person shooting is choppy, the weapons are unispired and slow to fire, enemies appear out of thin air (probably due to some bug) and you are forced to rely too heavily on med-kits.

The fighting engine is also weak. Its especially difficult to play with the mouse and keyboard combo, not to mention the fact that its boring and usually fights are tossed in hap-hazardly to culminate a first person shooting round. I would have preferred that this was just left out and the FPS tweaked, but oh well, what do I know, I'm just the consumer.

So with all this frustration, tis a chore just to continue in the game. not to mention the fact that your objective is very damn obscure at first and you'll spend most of your time walking around aimlesly.

And then there were BUGS. And plenty of them. Certain commands like walking or crouching dont work when applyed to certain buttons. No particular reason it seems. For instance, I set walking to left shift, as almost all FPS players will do, and I use the WSAD running / strafing system. Forget it, cause that will cause a ton of problems. Instead of using the up arrow when at the game menu, you need to use the 'w' key because the game is too stupid to know when its playing and when its not. You cant us the 's' key in your name if you've done this either, because it takes you back to the menu. Sucks if your name is Scott. There's plenty of other bugs too, but'll lets not spoil ALL the surprises.

As for Bowie's 'gametrack', dont buy this game if you own his new album, 'Hours. . ' because thats all it is. Really. he doesnt supply the ambient sound as I had hoped he would, and the only time you get to hear his songs is at a bar where some badly animated singer jerks around like a puppet while Bowie's music is dubbed over. Sure the songs are great but by the album, its cheaper. The ambient sound is still good, but it skips, a LOT. So it gives you a headache most of the time.

As for the game, if you want depth, by Everquest. if you don't like D&D go the Final Fantasy 8 route. if you want shooting, by Quake 3 Arena or better yet Tribes. If Omikron only runs half decent on your computer these games will look amazing. if you want fighting buy Tekken 3 and see how it's SUPPOSED to be done. Avoid this Eidos cash-machine like the plague.

What a frustrating game!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: December 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you are going to buy this game because of either David Bowie or because somebody said "you can interact with almost everything in this world", DON'T! It's just not worth the frustration of having to play the game. First of all if you want Bowie's music get it on CD sounds better. If you want an interactive world talk to your friends. Both these things get old in the first 30 mins of the game and you have hours to go before you are done.

First the positive, Omikron does give you a huge world that you can play around in. The graphics for the people and places are pretty good. The general story line is pretty good, enough to keep you interested for a while. The sound is excellent. That's about it for the good.

The Bad:

The Controls: Nothing good can come from having to set your movement controls for four different gaming situations (Exploring, Swimming, First person shooter, and hand to hand combat). If you don't mind the default settings this won't be a problem for you. If you do, you have to go in and change the controls for different situations independently.

The Graphics: Althought visually stunning, they are not so good unless you do the 1.6 M install, if you don't everything you do the game has to read from the CD kind of slows down the whole gaming experience. If you don't have the best in equiptment expect slow downs anyways. I'm also not exactly sure what the people at Quantic Dream deemed it necessary when they enveloved the entire game in a fog. It detracts from the gameplay because you can never find anything unless your standing in front of it.

The Gameplay: The puzzles in Omnikron are not that difficult to figure out, and they seem to rehash the same puzzles again under a different premise. Once you solved it the first time the subsequent times are just tedious (Actually the whole puzzle solving part of this game is tedious. It doesn't really involve all that much thinking it's more you have to run around and find the components which are sometimes obvious and other time just plain obscure or hard to read). You will also spend an inordinately large amount of time just running from place to place. The world is just to big sometimes. If you forgot something or need something from storage, it gets frustrating when you spend 10 mins having to run to the closest terminal to extract it. The biggest frustration in the whole game is you don't always know what your suppose to be doing. Other adventure games always give you a sense of what your suppose to be doing next. Omikron fails to do that several times and this is enough to get you to start cursing the day you bought this game. The game seems to have an agenda of its own and neglects to tell let you in on it. This is just bad game design.

The first person shooter: It's like playing a beautiful Commodore 64 (computer from the 80's) game. Not much challenge and enemies seem to have the ability to appear wherever they want.

The hand to hand combat: Remember the Original Street Fighter game this is even worse.

The final bad: Bugs lots of them everywhere.

Try this game at your own risk.

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