Cyberia 2: Resurrection

A true masterpiece of that time, they did a great job: throwing out unfun parts of Cyberia and improving what was really fun: FMV-shooting. I think FMV-graphics got much better. There's now no separate difficulties for action and puzzle parts and we can't use scanners manually.

This is hilarious. It is an on rails shooter that with some "amazing" voice acting. The game is seriously fun to play for a while. Not sure if it is still good on hour 2 though. https://youtu.be/KqlO7Br1siM

Cyberia 2: Resurrection was released in 1995, continuing the plot of its predecessor. Xatrix Entertainment tried to polish the flaws of the original game, but as I see it, it just made it all worse. Graphics became slightly better, and an attempt was made to fuel the story with more characters, broader dialogues, and more frequent and longer cut-scenes. Unfortunately, it made a great disservice to the game, because the quality of cinematics here is abhorrent. The cheesy voice acting combined with poor writing riddled with clichés give Cyberia 2 extremely cheap feel. Poorly directed cut-scenes are too frequent and often unnecessary: it’s infuriating when the flow of the game cuts off for the sake of some random fart joke. Poor level of videogame cinematography in Cyberia 2 catches the eye more than in original Cyberia. The sequel could have singlehandedly shattered all the hopes of videogames and cinema convergence: the worst of the early ‘90s direct-to-video low-budget action fl...

This is one of my favourites all time futuristic games ever. It's nice to play Cyberia 2/Cyberia again. I always recommend.

Cyberpunk 1994 - one of the first CD-ROM games and one of the first to combine computer animations and Hollywood film technique to form visually stunning graphics and cut scene.

Never got to play the sequel in the 90's, so I got it now. Ultimately disappointed though for several reasons: [list] [*]There are single-scene puzzles and rail-shooter type action sequences, very little of the "walk around and look for stuff" gameplay from Cyberia 1. [*]The VR-style filesystem/directory navigation was very confusing; I didn't even realize what it was or what I should be doing first. I guess some people had dreams that this kind of computer navigation would be "the future", but overall it's very annoying as you have to wait to get to the node you need to traverse. In the future, we can tell why a VR-only OS didn't ever catch on. [*]It's technically impossible to shoot all of the enemies, so it feels more overwhelming and less like a memorization/skill challenge. [*]The game leaned in way too hard into 70's/80's Alpha-Male-vs-Butch-Feminist conversation tropes, to the point it was just sad; none of the characters had any amount of depth, and it was such a missed oppo...

A real retro game that took me to my infancy, now is easier than I remebered, took me 3 hours to finish it. Never been able to get the soundtrack, specially the one from the car tunnel sequence.