Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Description (IGDB)
Responding to the desperate pleas of a mysterious character from another dimension, your soul must enter the dark and futuristic city of Omikron. This is but the beginning of an epic adventure through an increasingly strange and dazzling parallel world. You must solve the ultimate mystery: why are you in Omikron and how can you get out? Think, fight, and interact with awe-inspiring environments to defeat the menacing demons that are trying to stop you. Experience the life in an alternate reality with everything it has to offer--including the secret musical performances by The Dreamers, a band of rebels led by the Omikronian incarnation of David Bowie. Omikron: The Nomad Soul is a futuristic 3d-action adventure like no other. Combining a deep game plot with adventure, exploration, action, combat and role-playing elements, the Omikron experience will captivate you from the moment you enter the strange and wonderful world beyond our own. Only using all of your combined skills will bring you deliverance from this exotic dimension. After Bowie's death in 2016, The Nomad Soul was made available at no cost for one week.
Histoire (IGDB)
“Well, on one level, it’s your basic good ’n’ evil story. On another, it explores themes of camouflaged totalitarianism and desperate revolution. The game strives to be relevant in the real world by being part of the game. Does that stand to reason? By tying the concept of the game of Omikron strongly to reality and defining the player’s character in terms of their actual life, we clearly connected the parallel universe to our own. In effect, the player’s own life becomes our setting. Quantic believes it may be the world’s first Buddhist game--Buddhist with guns, I call it.” – Eidos Senior Designer Philip Campbell Soon after the player begins the investigation in Anekbah sector, he uncovers information that suggests the serial killer he is looking for is, in fact, not human but actually a demon. When members of an apparent underground, anti-government movement contact the player and confirm his suspicions, the investigation deepens and uncovers information that one of Omikron's chief police commanders (Commandant Gandahar) is, in fact, a demon pretending to be human and luring human souls into Omikron from other dimensions by way of the video game that the player is actually interacting with. Despite many attempts on his life by other demons working behind the scenes, the player then uses supernatural weaponry of ancient origin to destroy Gandhar. After this brief victory, the player is then invited to join the mysterious anti-government movement that call themselves "The Awakened", referring to the fact they have "awakened" from the lies and drugs of the government. The Awakened work in tandem with an ancient religious order who are led by "Boz", a mystical being that exists in purely electronic form on the computer networks of Omikron. The Awakened refer to the player as "The Nomad Soul" since he has the ability to change bodies at will. The Nomad Soul also learns that what is going on in Omikron is merely an extension of a thousands-of-years-old battle between mankind and demons led by the powerful Astaroth. Astaroth, who was banished to the depths of Omikron long ago, is slowly regenerating power while using demons to both collect souls and impersonate high members of the government so that he can eventually take complete control and move across the planet and, indeed, the universe. Only by harnessing ancient, magical technology and re-discovering several hidden tombs and catacombs underneath Omikron's surface, can the Nomad Soul hope to discover how to destroy Astaroth, return to his own dimension, and prevent his soul from being captured by demons.
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Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Revolutionary for its time.Strengths: highly atmospheric, a vast futuristic dark world, an excellent dark storyline featuring one of the "best" villains ever to appear in a PC game, and great gameplay that successfully combined elements from FPS, adventure, and beat-'em-up genres. A fantastic concept regarding reincarnation.Fantastic **** me, the best game of the 90s and 2000s! »
« So many great ideas and a real masterpiece of it's time. The Controls are not good for modern devices, but it is still a lot of fun. You want an adventure with many twists? Omikron welcomes you. You want a Tekken Style Fighting Game? Kay'l will teach you some tricks. You like First Person Shooters? Well, it exists with controls from hell. You want your soul **** into a game? This literally is the premise of The Nomad Soul »
« In 1999 it was WAY ahead of the time. What an atmosphere, what a world design. David Bowie <3 »
« Until "Cyberpunk 2077" - "Omikron : The Nomad Soul" was for more than 20 years leading game on my top list ( and it's quite not a short one ). Of course it is not a match for nowdays games by graphics and gameplay, but well - Omikron's story is something which every real RPG gamer should experience. Somewhat I really look on Omikron like very old brother of Cyberpunk 2077. »
« [SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.] »
« This is the most atmospheric and memorable game I've played. During the year of 2000 it was no doubt the best. Now, not sure, but it has it all. Music, characters, interesting plot, exploration element, different types of controls, fps/arcade/3rd person RPG. I see people complaining about elements like plot, controls and such, but I enjoyed it great deal and continue to do. Only the save game system I liked not, because it doesn't let you to save infinitely, you have to gather some "rings" to be able to save. »
« David Cage, you've done it again, and after this game, you will continue to do it, in several other games »
« This is not a game... it's an experience. If you'll play this, you won't ever forget this. I mean it in a good way and a bad way. Let's talk about good stuff... the soundtrack is magical, the graphics are old, but that is expected from a 1999 game, but the design is just amazing. Everything looks surreal and out of place... at least to me and I love it. Also David Bowie is in the game. He might be dead in the real world, but he's alive and well in Omikron, so that's that. The story makes no sense and the gameplay is horrid... it actually causes pain. Especially the fights with bosses... what an atrocity. To me this is a good example of a wasted potential. Here's a game that had a living city full of people and cars in 3D long before GTA 3 with amazing art style and atmosphere, but thanks to ridiculous plot and awful gameplay it all falls short and becomes a big mess... this is a game that everyone should try out and see for themselves if it's good or not. I'm a big fan of the atmosphere of this game, so I won't rate it bad, because for the most of the time I had fun, but I won't forget the frustration that this game caused me and lack of rationality in certain parts of the game. Play it yourself motherhugger. Pickens approves! »
