Messiah
by Interplay
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Video Game Reviews of Messiah
Customer Review: Fun unique game, 4 pages of troubleshooting!
Summary: 3 Stars
Definately a awsome premise decent graphics and great gameplay.... when it played. On opening the box I was greeted with a white 4 page document about troubleshooting the many issue the game has with diffrent configurations/sound/video cards. (of course it doesnt mention these on the outside of the box or in the official requirements on pages from which you might buy it) I have spoken to people that have no issues with it, but boy it gave me a headache to start with. Apparently if you have a Geforce graphics card (which I do), none of the offically released drivers from Nvida work, (they cause graphics corruption wont let you get through the opening menu and need to reboot) Ok fine, so I needed to upgrade to beta drivers, which had issues with my standard win 98 screensaver and standby modes.. crash! But I installed the beta drivers anyhoo and turned off the screensaver and powersave mode to prevent crashing and played away. Woohoo lotsa fun! but no sound in the intro.. ugh. Though the game did not instruct me to, I needed to take out the data CD and put in the audio cd (game has 2 cd's) to hear intro sound and some sounds in the game.. ok. did that (after fudging with cd notification) woohoo playing. lotsa fun wait want to goto the controls menu to change something.. crash.. oops still had audio CD in, it needs the data CD to change controlls. ugh. Well eventually I got the hang of that and ran into a problem where my char. started walking by himself... and walking and walking like a key was stuck.. because of issues with input... (im just using a standard intellimouse and keyboard too) ah well.Long story short (or relatively short) Once I got the right drivers, and the hang of swapping CD's (that just may be my inexperiance with games that require swapping cd's out during gameplay) the game was pretty darn good! beat the game, was happy, reinstalled my old video drivers so I could once again have a screensaver and now the box sits unplayed in my desk..
The end.
** well one other good note is that pretty nifty that if you mail the tech support from the web page, you may, or at least I did get a response back from a head programmer.. wow!
Customer Review: Exiting But Challenging
Summary: 4 Stars
The game is very exiting but also very difficult to figure out initially. The graphics are amazing and the 3D freeplay creates a real feeling of being in the game.No rules, no limits, and no fear makes this game a must own.
Customer Review: A Breakthrough in Gaming Technology!........A Great Game!
Summary: 1 Stars
This game is About Bob a chubby little Cherib sent by God to save the world.But the little Cheribs only defense is the power of possesion. And you can posess over fourty amazing characters. Such as rats,cops,medics,bouncers etc etc etc to help you in your quest......GOOD LUCK !Customer Review: The best action game ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Two words: Must play. The graphics, sound, and gameplay are all seamless. It's also refresing because it's so different from other shooters. The level of diffuculty is good too, not a pushover but not impossible. I was anticipating this game a lot and I wasn't let down. Buy this now!Customer Review: Great concept, bad bugs.
Summary: 3 Stars
I really did enjoy this game. The gameplay was fun and original, the sound was great, the graphics were good, but it felt like I was paying to be a beta tester. This game crashed many, many times and crashed my computer many times as well, and this is even after downloading all of the latest drivers, and checking all of the troubleshooting notes on the Messiah website. There are some very funny parts in this game, as you might expect, being based on a cherub named Bob. The ending was a bit of a letdown, but makes way for a sequel. Overall a game that could be great with some patches, but wait until they are out, because there is nothing more annoying than playing a game halfway through and downloading a patch only to find that it does not work with saved games. When a patch does come out, and I am hoping one will soon, I would recommend this to any fan of third-person action games.