Then he'll knead his brow in closeup and say, 'It was like someone had put a shotgun upside my head and blown a hole clear through my brain.'
He reminds me of one of those film noir detectives who are always being knocked out by a blow to the head. Some of the dialogue he has to chew through is pretty heavy-handed, and he still deals with it well. He has a nice line in sarcasm and timely quips too. He's intense, broody-looking and agitated, as you might be with a computer virus eating your brain. But crucially, the guy playing Sol is very good. Most are fine or good, one is laughable (I'll enjoy talking about those soon). In two hours it's going to explode!'Īll of the characters in the game are played by real actors, who are blended appropriately into the game's neon-lit Blade Runner style world. A killer set-up, no doubt about it, and which gives us the brilliant tagline:
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You now have only 2 hours to find out what's going on, who's trying to kill you, what's the importance of the data you have in your head, and how to destroy the virus before it eats your brain. and viruses.īurn:Cycle is the name of a virus which you've just jacked into your own brain after a data theft gone wrong. The brain can be used as a receptacle for data. You play Sol Cutter, a data thief and hacker in the 'Johnny Mnemonic' age, where human information and digital information have become interchangeable in the human brain. Yet the overall story experience is dazzling enough that you won't really notice. While it's very ambitious and succeeds on many levels, enough to be memorable, it does suffer from the typical problem of this genre: too-low interactivity. "īurn:Cycle is an early generation (1994) 'interactive movie' style sci-fi adventure, hot off the CD-I to your Mac or PC.
"Burn:Cycle is an early generation (1994) 'interactive movie' style sci-fi adventure, hot off the CD-I to your Mac or PC.
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