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Messiah

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  • 02-04-2000 2:38pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I have to say I was well impressed despite the reviews (lots of people complaining it won't install, demo not working).

    It takes FOREVER to install, but it does install.

    Basically you play a little fat kid with wings and a halo and you have to free Satan who's been captured.

    You do this by possessing people (jumping into thier back) and controlling them.

    For example, you have to get by a door which you can't open. So you take over an engineer who controls a crane and drop a car on one of the cops. This calls in the medics, so you possess one of the medics and you have security clearance. In some cases you have to possess a rat as well.

    Graphics are incredible. And the game is as deep as System Shock 2.


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    2040
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭2040


    I saw a preview for it around two years ago!How come it was so slow?


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    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    It seemed to get lacklustre reviews but I thought the demo was outstanding. Graphics are unbelievable.


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    pox
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭pox


    Yeah I downloaded this game and spent
    way too long trying to get it to install,

    (though I have reason to suspect that
    my copy is not infact legal, as the
    warez site i leeched it from suggested
    underhand piracy was afoot)

    I hear you can possess the poor
    mortlals, walk em off a building edge,
    and then make em stroll about the
    city on two broken legs.
    Spiffing good sunday afternoon fun.

    On that note, has anyone heard news
    about a game set in a simulated city
    where each of the million or so simulated
    inhabitants are unique and can interact
    with you in neverbefore seen detail?

    (foggy recollection here)

    p


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Yes the broken legs is a bit disturbing.

    I jumped off a ledge and must of fell wrong. The guy I was in went down on his hands and knees and started screaming in pain if I tried to move him.

    The flamethrower is a bit too real as well.

    The Maser gun rocks, but it's real slow.

    I'm a bit annoyed that the in game demos don't work. Apprantly you need two CD-ROM Drives but you have to install from the Second one, which I didn't do.

    The other game you may be talking about is "Nomad Soul". It takes place in a future city. You have possessed a cop and you have to find out about demons taking over the city.

    It was kind of a Music video, Carmeggeon, Halflife, Street fighter. Pretty good game but very hard to get into I found.


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    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Could be Republic: The Revolution that Pox is thinking of, due out near the end of this year. That has a million unique AI's in the various cities it covers.


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    Fool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Fool


    i saw some scrnshots of that "republic game", they looked deadly.
    i cant get the messiah demo working, i got detonater 5.13s which were supposed to fix it but they didnt.
    shame, it sounds excellent.


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    pox
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭pox


    yeah republic, thas the one, i think.
    They demonstrated it at some convention
    by zooming in on a matchstick or a nail
    in a wall or summat and then zooming
    out to a satellite view of the city.

    I dunno though, most of the great games
    I can barely remember are probably just
    weird dreams I had.



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