Messiah (PC)

Messiah - A game I spotted with a preview rating in ComputerActive, and seemed to have a lot of potential. Well, it did, and does, it needs finding perhaps. Developed through Shiny and Interplay, the delay of this game coming out I understand raged onwards for some time, and a hurried ending looks to have taken place. This, unfortunately seems to have turned the cards slightly from a most original game to a regular platformer. I'm not saying there are no decent platform games out there, on the contrary, (Flashback was once a favourite of mine), but this could have been something special. Messiah concerns Bob, a young winged sprite who has the power to control ...

Shiny always have a reputation to make off the wall and original games, Earthworm Jim, MDK and, more recently, Sacrifice. And as good as these games were (bar Earthworm Jim) they have failed to sell as much as they deserved. Obviously gamers prefer the safer, more normal mainstream games, which is a shame because Shiny's games are little gems. Messiah is no exception. It has a weird concept (taking control of an angel called Bob, saving the now deadbeat planet Earth from a guy called Father Prime, while doing so possessing a range of people from police, engineers to pimp daddies) yet it the gameplay is familiar, it has that console platform ...

Messiah is an unusual mix of an action/adventure shoot everything you see game, and a very complicated strategy game. You are Bob, an angel sent down from heaven by God to clean up earth. As Bob you can possess the bodies of several different people from cops to hookers. You also have the choice of several different moves and weapons. Messiah is not easy to use. It is incredibly complicated, both to run on your system (system requirements are massive) and to play. Messiah has a 15 age rating as it is not really suitable for players under the age of 15 due to the nature of some of the characters. The language is bad in some places. ...