Some people don't like David Cage's games because there isn't enough game in them. On the contrary, I don't like Omikron because it has too much game in it. From the awkward third-person controls; to the arbitrary fighting; to the downright awful FPS gameplay, Omikron is not great. The first-person, final boss battle was so poorly constructed I found myself repeatedly asking if the designer had ever played a first-person shooter before. I wasn't surprised to later learn David Cage doesn't play first-person shooters because they make him motion sick. (To be fair, the inclusion of an FPS component in the game was allegedly at the behest of Eidos, the game's publisher.) Still, there's something endearing about Omikron. Perhaps it's that while poorly implemented, the gameplay is never so frustrating as to get completely in the way of an ontherwise unique world. But there is something endearing about the game as an overwrought cyberpunk epic. Or maybe it's just David Bowie having a seizure.
