Origin Bioforge Strategy Review

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

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4.50 of 5,
2 votes

Price Paid:  $20.00 from cdaccess.com

Summary:
This is great game which thoughtful/sci-fi people will enjoy. The voice logs and storyline is first rate with many thought provoking ideas.
The game is a whole experience as you not only shoot but need to solve puzzles and work out the overall purpose of the moon base.
This is a MS-DOS only game. It needs DOS mode CD drivers. I played it early this year (2003) on an P200 machine with MS-DOS 6.2 It will not play in Win95/98.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Summary:
This game freaked me out. I was about 13 when I first played, and I was immediately and totally drawn into the realism of the game's atmosphere. Reader, let me put it this way: It was amazing. I sat tense and breathless, my sweaty palms slipping from key to key, drinking in the visuals and enveloped by the storyline. If you are an avid gamer like me, you know the feeling: it is bliss. Customer satisfaction. (Well, I admit that I received this copy free, as it came with some other software, but still...)
My biggest regret is that I did not have enough time to finish the game before other things took my time away. I never have, even now, beat the game. I swear I read every letter of the strategy guide (full of all the games datafiles [stuff to read]).
It was scary. It was fun. It was addicting. Origin has my hand to shake anytime they want. But for now, I am off to finish the game. . .

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $50.00

Summary:
Wow i can't believe there wasnt a review for this game posted earlier. This adventure game by Origin is easily one of the greatest adventure games i have ever played. After a stunning Intro you awaken in a cell with no memory, you have been enhanced using biotechnology to make a somewhat "cyborg" but you are still very much human. One reason this game stands out so much is that you actually do progress and learn about yourself, instead of the player simple gaining random knowledge the you as the player never sees, you actually read and learn with the character. The story is incredibly deep, almost too deep at times. I had to play through a few times to understand the whole concept. The characters you meet are very memorable and the whole game is available to you from the start, you can go back to your original cell from anywhere in the game if you want to(although it will take a while). Complaints: The interface in the menu uses a hand that seems to have a delayed reaction to when you move the mouse. There are no quick save/load, that is a pain. The game is unfortunetely quite short, i was able to beat it in an evening and i dont think there were different difficulty settings. I think there is an expansion out for it somewhere. These are minor, they dont really affect the game that much.