Omikron: The Nomad Soul

The Nomad Soul is a computer game. It was developed by Quantic Dream and published by Eidos Interactive. The original American title is Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Initially, a PlayStation version was planned, due to lack of hardware performance, but this was canceled. The soundtrack was written by David Bowie.

Action

At the beginning of the game you'll come to the police omikroanischen Kay'l 669 This represents the request to follow him into a parallel dimension by Omikron ( Omikron This is the O in the Greek alphabet ). Omikron is located on the planet Phaeon, the second planet of the star Rad'an. Kay'l offers the player the opportunity to transfer his soul into Kay'ls body as long as you are traveling in Omikron. But no sooner arrived in Omikron, you will be attacked by a demon who robs the soul of Kay'l and hurt the player and leaves no memory. From this point on he begins the search for self, the search for the self.

Special

• As one of the first computer games The Nomad Soul offers the character complete freedom of movement in the game world. In this case, any building to enter and each person will be involved in a conversation. Overall, there are more than 100 speaking characters.
• For the German version of an elaborate speech was created, with the German dubbing voices of Al Pacino, Kevin Costner, Bruce Willis, Jean Reno and Pamela Anderson.
• The movements of all people were created with motion capture.
• Another special feature of The Nomad Soul is the soundtrack. David Bowie had it with active and contributed six new songs at. In addition, Bowie plays itself a character in the game.

The pieces

The player first assumes the body of a policeman Kay'l. If he dies, the game continues with another figure. One can view this as a rebirth. Each character has special abilities and characteristics which must be used with care, the player to reach the goal of the game. In some places it is even necessary to replace the body. In an exchange, however, the player will lose all items and newly acquired fighting techniques. Overall, however, the players are 12 bodies to choose from, but only one soul and one character.