Omikron: The Nomad Soul

I can't hold these polygons!

Just a 'quick' report regarding my experience controlling this game and of overcoming initial simulator sickness problems. I'm potentially prepared for more problems when it later comes to the other modes of movement , but for now I've cracked it - how to play, at least for myself, without fear of motion sickness and with a decent sense of control in adventure mode Figured there had to be a way, after all I managed ok back when I originally played the game The trick I found is to keep my hand well away from the mouse. With the exception of when I do want to stop and look around in first person mode (I mapped first person mode to Button 1 for that purpose) But the rest of the time my hand on the mouse meant that my brain was expecting me to adjust the camera view as I moved about the way I would nowadays using mouse look. Since I wasn't able to movement including the sometimes unexpected auto-camera movements were making me dizzy Using just one hand on the keyboard to walk around and remembering the days when a lot of 3D games featured this Res-Evil style movement it quickly became second nature again and I found it much easier to manouver about without bumping into things or missing the right spot to interact with something Been having fun instead causing havoc for the surveillance controllers and my colleagues at the Police station :)

I loved this game growing up and was super excited to see GOG selling it. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug pretty deep in (tetra factory mission), where you die randomly (regardless of health). There doesn't appear to be a workaround for this.

A very good game. Just hope you don't have an ATI video card because it will not display right!

I heard a lot about this game. Maybe if I had come across it back in the day, it would not have gotten the score it now has. It is sadly unplayable. The controls are very clunky and for some reason mapped to the cursor keys. Although they can be remapped, you simply cannot get around how clumsy they feel during play. No matter how engaging the world is, it cannot mitigate how awful the control system is. Sometimes nostalgia is best left in the past.