Mike Oldfield's Online Game Makes Like A Maestro

Thanks to Terra Nova for pointing to information about Maestro, a game billed as 'Mike Oldfield's Virtual Reality Online Quest'. The title, created by the composer of the multi-million selling '70s album Tubular Bells, goes on to promise "a free form world offering a refreshing alternative to the typical, task-orientated 'in-your-face' computer game", although the gameplay seems somewhat less 'free form': "Your job is to find the Gravitars, bring them home to the mothership and put them in their pen." The demo is available from Mike Oldfield's website, and the full game is available next month for around UKP15 (USD28).

Comments

Played it...

[WildFire42]

I've played the demo. It's...interesting, to say the least.

I suppose it's kind of a new way of looking at gaming, in that it can be simply a sensory experience, and not necessary something with set goals in mind.

Still, this game has nothing on Rez, the game with the Trance Vibrator.

To quote HR Giger

[bear pimp]

To quote HR Giger when talking about the alien baby in Alien Resurrection:

'It is shit; they have made shit.'

I'm sorry, but am I missing the point here? You travel down badly modelled and attrociously textured drainpipes picking up tube bells. Each time you pick one up another 'tubular bell' icon dissapears off screen. Once they have all dissapeared, miraculously, NOTHING HAPPENS!

THIS GAME ROCKS: if you are into drainpipe exploration. If this had been my first project when I got AMOS basic for the Amiga I would have been disappointed with myself.

The best bit though is knowing how Mike Oldfield has been completelty ripped off by some programmer, as even if he was charged $10 for the work he was taken to the cleaners.

Don't knock drain games

[AtariAmarok]

THIS GAME ROCKS: if you are into drainpipe exploration

Don't knock drainpipe-exploration games. Nintendo made a mint on the Mario Bros franchise :)