jstnomega on 27/2/2013 at 00:56
Been a long time now...anyone happen to recall the name of the soundtrack that played during the install?
TIA
Dresden on 27/2/2013 at 05:28
I don't recall the install song but if it was a David Bowie song, it was likely on his album "Hours".
jstnomega on 3/3/2013 at 13:36
TY for trying people. Mayhaps 'Brilliant Adventure', mayhaps not. Simply been too long - just that I remember very much enjoying the install music. Only one way to be sure, dammit.
demagogue on 4/3/2013 at 08:43
Just googled it. An install video on YT actually plays it. It's Bowie's New Angels of Promise. (Edit: ... assuming the video is recording the actual song playing & he didn't just dub another song over it.)
Gothik on 6/3/2013 at 01:19
I think he just overdubbed the video with that song. New Angels of Promise only plays over the opening credits. I used to restart that game so many times just to listen to that track. I did reinstall the game a few months ago so I could actually finish it at some point, and I don't remember exactly what the install music was, but I think it was just the music that plays when you're in the main menu.
This track: (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dETZeTTg00U&list=PL72381CFE2B8D4015&index=2)
EvaUnit02 on 6/3/2013 at 14:24
Is this any better than Quantic Dream's subsequent interactive films? Eg is it an actual game?
Dresden on 6/3/2013 at 19:19
It is, but it's a bit of an odd genre crossing game. It's got good adventure game bits, it's got Mortal Kombat style fighting...and terrible first person shooter bits but those were few thankfully. I would replay it, but I'm sure it's a bitch to get running on Windows 7.
Gothik on 7/3/2013 at 00:34
Windows 7 isn't the problem, it installs and loads just fine on Win 7 x64. The real issue is it is a DX6 game and a few of the functions it requires are not supported by recent graphics cards (certainly not ATI cards anyway). So while it does run the visuals are bolloxed. Oddly enough there is a fix for this, which was distributed with one of the warez versions floating around and a kind soul extracted this from that version and put just the fix up for download, making it playable again.
Shadowcat on 9/3/2013 at 02:50
Yes, Omikron is very much an "actual game", and a good one.
I gave some details here back in the day: (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31498)
As with most people, I did come to really dislike the first-person sequences (I didn't mind them to start with, but they're never that memorable, and they do become very unfair later on). Also the ending is brutally hard; I count myself fortunate that I encountered a glitch in one of my attempts, and essentially cheated my way past it.
Some people dislike the hand-to-hand combat, but I absolutely loved it. I'm not a big fan of Tekken style games in general, though, so maybe Omikron was the fighting game for people who didn't play fighting games, but I felt it was nicely responsive and pretty detailed (including learning a stack of combos over time). Personally I was really disappointed that there wasn't a stand-alone fighting game provided alongside the real game, because it seemed like something they could have added without much difficulty, and I know I would have played it for hours. As it was I used to invoke the in-game practice sessions a lot, or load a save game that preceded a lot of fighting, all because I really enjoyed just playing that aspect of the game.
The game is pretty big with lots of environments. There are puzzles to solve and, unlike so many old adventure games, the solutions are completely logical. Joy! (although when your character is told that no one else has ever been able to figure something out, it does make you conclude that the NPCs in question are all quite thick :)
Omikron did a lot of things extremely well so, for me, the good outweighed the bad by a very large margin, and I think back very favourably on it.
