OMIKRON - THE NOMAD SOUL

                 Reviewed by Stefan Herber

Haven't we been here before? Yes - I was unable to finish the game
either due to a disc problem or a bug. Anyhow when I found a
second hand copy for œ4 and upgraded my hard disc I decided to
start again as I thought the game was turning out to be one of the
best ever. I don't know what I did right this time apart from a
full install but it worked perfectly. Question is - what it worth
it?

The game is an unusual mish -mash of adventure, first person
shooter and RPG. It also has David Bowie singing some new songs
and appearing as the ultimate saviour and intellectual.
Effectively you play someone who has been sucked into a future
world run by a computer. All is unpleasant - this is yet another
vision of the future as a totalitarian state. The look and feel of
the game are very much pop video oriented with grey skies and a
bluish tinge to everything. It's very gripping and the action
sequences are exciting. The puzzles don't stretch the mind too far
and completion time I suppose is around 20 hours.

Sadly the game deteriorated badly after the point where it
previously crashed with what starts as an intriguing murder
mystery turning into some weird type of SF claptrap. As usual you
have a very nasty baddie to fight at the end - as usual it appears
impossible till you hit on the right strategy. The sequence took
me ages to complete; I even went to a newsgroup for advice - and
it was all down to me having the wrong video setting so that
certain objects that had to be destroyed became visible.

Good try nevertheless - but ultimately no cigar. And no - it's not
the third best adventure available as one magazine suggests.
Could have been though ...




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