Ring (video game)

The Ring of the Nibelung Ring and II are ajar to the eponymous opera cycle by Richard Wagner computer games.

• 2.1 of play

The Ring of the Nibelung

The game tells the story of Alberich, Loge, Siegmund and Brünnhilde.

Ish, one of the last survivors of the great catastrophe that has destroyed the world, live like the rest of his fellow man under the despotic rule of the four as cruelly oppressed slave. Erda, a goddess or maybe just an electronic good spirit, determined him to the main character in a revival of the old human saga of the Edda and the Nibelungenlied. The four see such Bühnenstückchen quite happy, bread and circuses, bread and circuses to finally keep the oppressed masses in a good mood and the surviving humanity does not remain after the destruction of their home planet anyway much more than their legends and memories. But Erda certainly has more in mind than the tyrant can be dear. With their help, slips ISH, and thus the player consecutively in the roles of the main actors, times Alberich, the tyrannical king of dwarves, sometimes Loge, who enslaved fire god, sometimes Siegmund, who with his sister is killed in an unhappy love affair, sometimes Brunnhilde, that is damned from idealistic love for the people of Wotan to sleep in the fire wall - only Siegfried, Siegmund's offspring is, freeing it from there. Through these experiences, Ish grow spiritually beyond himself, his initiated by Erda apotheosis finally is it the savior and Messiah make and overthrow the tyrants of mankind.

Special

• Non- linear game
• 4 playable characters
• More than 400,000 copies sold
• The soundtrack contains excerpts of the recordings of the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Sir Georg Solti from the years between 1958 and 1965.
• German speaker among other things, Senta Berger ( Erda )
• The illustrator Philippe Druillet designed the environment.

Play

The Ring of the Nibelung offers a surreal environment, with original music from the opera cycle by Richard Wagner and animated movies. The graphics quality is similar to Myst bought by a restriction of the freedom of movement within the game world.

The character can be rotated in the rendered ( pre ) backgrounds through 360 ° thanks to the CINvision - Rotationstechologie. The screen consists of only the image of the scene, about which one moves the mouse and clicks through to the right places actions triggers.

Ring II

Here is the story of Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde says.

Play

As in the first part is played in pre-rendered worlds. The situation is different now that you do not play the worlds from the first-person perspective, but from the third-person view. From this perspective, the hero is moved by the pre-rendered worlds.

For the second part of the action concept was reduced to the purely narrative around Siegfried.