Zak’s back!
Three years after the events of Cyberia, Zak wakes up from a cryo-sleep, only to find out that his mission is not over yet. There is a new deadly weapon developed from the remains of the Cyberia project. There is a new fanatic leader who will stop at nothing to gain absolute control over...
Three years after the events of Cyberia, Zak wakes up from a cryo-sleep, only to find out that his mission is not over yet. There is a new deadly weapon developed from the remains of the Cyberia project. There is a new fanatic leader who will stop at nothing to gain absolute control over humanity...
Zak must put his cyberhero skills to the ultimate test!
Randomized gameplay - so it's never the same game twice.
Action that moves... you can't just shoot your way out of this.
Blackout-inducing G-force flying and driving, but don't just hang on or you won't make it.
I did a series of this for my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv847dmrbDP-YaBKPIM7GM5UZ3llVKT3
I remembered both Cyberia and Cyberia 2 fondly from my youth and was anxious to replay them both. It was a mistake. These are not good games. They were technological marvels for the day but they have nonsensical stories, terrible writing and voice acting, obtuse puzzles, tons of instant failure states and some of the worst checkpoint I've ever seen in gaming. Cyberia 2 amps up the awful to an even worse level. This game will alternate between mouse-throwing frustration and scratching your head in confusion. Honestly, there are tons of bad games from the dawn of the CD-ROM era but this is among the worst of them. Not worth it.
This game was the best game of my childhood. Adventure and action combined in 1 box. I still have the original box behind me. This original box means a lot to me. I grew up on this game and needed to hack the save file because 8 MB RAM was not enough to take out the 1st CD and put in the 2nd CD.
This is a badly designed on-rails shooting and a badly designed adventure puzzler with very, very poor checkpoint placement. I'm quite fond of the first game, but in this case neither nostalgia nor few pros it has outweighs the cons. The game works perfectly, but has aged so ungraciously...
I didn't care for this game as a kid, and it didn't age well. Basically you click on things as FMV plays in the background. It's not a very interactive game and was mostly a novelty to show off the amount of data that could fit on a CD-ROM.
The first Cyberia is a genuine PC classic which received wide praise when it released in '94. And before the GI charade was universally lauded by those who knew about it:
http://www.gamespot.com/cyberia/user-reviews/2200-429246/
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/comments/39/
http://www.csoon.com/issue3/cyberia.htm
http://www.giantbomb.com/cyberia/3030-18074/user-reviews/
It still holds up today as a unique and high-quality experience that very successfully blends together various genres: action, adventure, puzzle, Dragon's Lair-style arcade, flight.
Cyberia 2 does not really impress on the same level as the first Cyberia, and seems much less like a serious effort:
- While the first Cyberia was a pioneer in gaming technology, and also in mixing together various genres, Cyberia 2 uses the same graphics style with perhaps less overall detail than the first game, and also just mimics the same basic gameplay formula, which feels a bit more streamlined than the first game.
- While the first Cyberia has an intriguing story, diverse locations, and interesting characters, Cyberia 2 feels like it was written by someone different, someone much more amateur, and who just aimed to create game time using the first game's models, rather than interesting characters, story, purpose, intrigue, etc.
- The music in the first Cyberia is one of gaming history's better and most aesthetically-stylized soundtracks, and while Cyberia 2 uses the same instruments, effects, and some similar themes, it lacks the personality and melodic qualities of the first game's soundtrack.
Still, it's nice to have another game in the Cyberia series, at least to experience the unique sensations of the first game for a little longer - even if in an inferior overall presentation. And if you like to immerse yourself in early PC gaming atmospheres, then Cyberia 2 allows for plenty of that, too.
I'm giving Cyberia 2 one bonus star in my rating, because the first Cyberia is just that awesome.
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