


The footage of the actors flows smoothly with only a touch of graininess, and the phenomenal sci-fi scenery will take your breath away. You accompany your pals by means of a tiny, floating probe with handy features like a sensory array, laser, and so on.Īrmed with more than two hours of live-action video, Daedalus's stunning graphics are as compelling as a big-budget Hollywood flick. When a collision strands you on a seemingly deserted alien ship, exploring the mysterious craft is the only way out. Space BlastĪs Daedalus begins, you're confined to a life-support box and set out with Ari and Zack (played by Tia Carrere and Christian Bocher in strong performances) to scavenge from space wreckage. Daedalus Encounter takes you on a dazzling outer-space voyage fraught with puzzles, gorgeous graphics, more puzzles, a fascinating story line, and even more puzzles. Three difficulty settings, in-game instruction, and assistance, as well as a few extras (such as high-resolution pictures) are included.A port of a popular PC game. It takes up only a small part of the screen and the rest of the screen is taken up with a kind of fleshy 'inside of your head' background that is there to remind you that you are inside a machine. There is no inventory to speak of, because, being a brain in a box, you have no pockets.Īll the action takes place in an in-game window that is your view of the world. There is also a maze sequence and sporadic action-based tasks. Gameplay consists of conversations with your colleagues (displayed as live-action video), animated exploration sequences, as well as puzzle-solving that mostly involves figuring out how to operate alien mechanisms.

With your own craft disabled, and the alien ship on a collision course, you must explore it to find out what has gone wrong and to make a course correction. In due course, you stumble literally into an alien craft. Your buddies rescue you from the lab so that you can go exploring - scavenging the galaxy for wreckage and artifacts left over from the war. The interstellar war is over, leaving you, a casualty, as a disembodied brain inside a life support system.
