Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Tags: sci-fi

Plot synopsis:
=== Setting ===
Omikron: The Nomad Soul is set in a futuristic city known as Omikron, which is a densely populated metropolis on the world of Phaenon, the second planet of the star Rad'an. At the start of the game, players are asked by an Omikronian police officer named Kay'l 669 to leave their dimension and enter Omikron within his body (thereby breaking the fourth wall). After doing so, players continue with the investigation of serial killings that Kay'l and his partner Den were originally working on, attempting to pick up where Kay'l was apparently stopped from investigating. The city of Omikron exists beneath an enormous crystal dome, which was constructed to protect against the ice age that Phaenon entered into after its sun's extinction. The city is split into different sectors: Anekbah, Qalisar, Jaunpur, Jahangir and Lahoreh. Because it is forbidden for the inhabitants to leave their respective sectors, each area has developed uniquely, which is reflected by the diverging lifestyles and architecture. Common to all Omikronians, however, is the heavily oppressive and controlling government, which is run by a supercomputer called Ix.
=== Plot ===
Soon after the beginning of the game's introduction, the player begins the investigation in the Anekbah sector. He uncovers information that suggests the serial killer he is looking for is in fact not human but actually a demon. When members of an apparent underground, anti-government movement contact the player and confirm his suspicions, the investigation deepens and uncovers information; one of Omikron's chief police commanders, Commandant Gandhar, is a demon pretending to be human and lures human souls into Omikron from other dimensions by way of the Omikron video game. Kay'l 669 asking the player to help him was a trap: supposedly, if the in-game character dies, the real human playing the video game will lose their soul forever. Despite many assassination attempts on the protagonist's life by other demons working behind the scenes, the player destroys Gandhar with supernatural weaponry.
After this brief victory, the player is invited to join the mysterious anti-government movement named "The Awakened" (referring to the fact the characters have "awakened" from the lies and drugs of the government). The Awakened work in tandem with an ancient religious order who are led by Boz, a mystical being that exists in purely electronic form on the computer networks of Omikron. The Awakened refer to the protagonist as the "Nomad Soul" since he has the ability to change bodies at will. The Nomad Soul learns afterwards that what is going on in Omikron is merely an extension of a thousands-of-years-old battle between mankind and demons led by the powerful Astaroth. Astaroth, who was banished to the depths of Omikron long ago, is slowly regenerating power while using demons to both collect souls and impersonate high members of the government; he believes he can eventually take complete control and move across Phaenon and the Universe beyond. Only by harnessing ancient, magical technology and by re-discovering several hidden tombs underneath Omikron's surface, can the Nomad Soul hope to discover how to destroy Astaroth, return to his own dimension, and prevent his soul from being captured by demons.
=== Characters ===
The starting character of Omikron is Kay'l, a detective with amnesia. He later gets killed when leaving the first city.

Review: Okay so maybe I am just biased by my unending adoration for David Bowie but I am also a big fan of great games and this is one.
Interesting plot to this RPG that is not overdone.
The music and scenarios are unique from every other game I have played.
Lovely :).
Awesome game, here's why.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul will always be special to me.
I got it when it was about 3 years old so I payed only a few bucks for it.
I didn't expect that much from the game but I got a lot more than I expected.
To my surprise the role you play in this game is the role of *you*.
You are somebody playing Omikron.
Not some super hero on a screen, you are you.
Without going into further details, this changes the whole point of view and makes this game as realistic as it gets.
Another thing about this great game is that it doesn't fit just one genre.
There is role-playing, puzzling, 3rd and 1st person shooting, racing and even Tekken style fighting!
Another nice thing in this game is David Bowie.
He arranged the soundtrack for this game and even has a role in it.
The soundtrack is very similar to Bowies album called "Hours...".
All these things together made this a game I really loved to play and made quite an impression.
Now this game is old and probably nobody will ever play it again and that's a shame.
But that's the way things go with video-games....
That damn good!.
This game is in a very real sense, very good.
You are the Nomad Soul - a disembodied spirit in a hostile world.
You must possess the inhabitants and use their bodies in order to free the world of Omnikron from its demonic overlord.
During your (third person perspective) adventure, you will encounter 3d fighting sections, 1st person shooting areas, and concerts by David Bowie himself in seedy nightclubs!.
A better place to be,....
If I ever had the chance to choose a place to be,..
Omikron would be my first choice,...
However, the game has only one ending, it still has a nice story.
Somehow, I feel that my soul is still left alone in Omikron,...
My life may seem lonely,..
but I like it in Omikron,..
We all have demons...
We all have demons...
but some of us, haven't seen them yet.
--- The envelope changes, but the contents remains the same.
- Jenna, The Awakened, Omikron..
Omikron: please kill me edition.
Omikron is one of the worst...things, I have ever experienced.
No amount of preparation can help you with the amount of abuse you'll experience playing this wretched pile.
The story is a quarter baked collection of poor ideas, ridiculous moments, laughably bad plot twists, and David Cage ripping off movies like Blade Runner and They Live in order to sell a tale of demons living among society and enslaving humanity while a chosen one aka you (The now stupidly named Nomad Soul) must now play the game and defeat the demons and their overlord Astaroth.
Now to be honest this seemed like a neat idea at first, too bad its been done before in other adventure games and a hell of a lot better with characters you'll actually care about.
The actual game-play can be summed up like this, what do you get when you mix a bad open-world adventure game, with a bad 3d fighting game, and a bad first person shooter, the answer is this pile of crap.
The fighting plays like Tekken, if Tekken were programmed by people undergoing lobotomy and tested by a 12 year old drunk on grandpas whiskey, the only way to win is to constantly spam the same kick combo over and over again without stopping and even then you only have 1/4th of a chance of winning.
The FPS sections are a stiff frustrating mess that are near impossible to aim properly while your enemies all have pinpoint accuracy, imagine Doom but with absolutely no sense of weight, inability to move fast and the least sensitive aiming controls you've ever felt.
The open world is arguably the worst part, the environments are all bland futuristic cities that we've all seen in every science fiction movie ever made, there's a body snatching/switching mechanic in the game but its broken beyond belief because sometimes you'll be forced to switch into a much weaker body to progress in the story only to meet a demon you have to fight, but now you have much less health and you do poor damage.
Oh and more than likely you wont be able to switch back because the other body will be in an area blocked off due to story.
All and all I've played worse games, but not many.
Omikron sticks to your soul in the worst way possible, constantly reminding you that the creator of this game still makes games.
Oh and David Bowie is in the game for like..I dunno a minute?
who cares.