Deus (video game)
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Deus is a 1996
survival simulation game developed by Silmarils
and published by ReadySoft. It is the sequel to Robinson's Requiem
. The player again assumes the role of Robinson's Requiem protagonist Officer Trepliev, who has become a bounty hunter for the Alien World Exploration department. The player's goal is to save a scientific research station from a group of terrorists called the New Crusaders. Like Robinson's Requiem, the game features complex health monitoring and surgery systems; however, the game now contains an optional "action mode", which removes these systems.
Deus critical reception was mixed. Computer Gaming World
found the realism of the simulation mode to be overwhelming, and described the game's action mode as "dull". PC Gamer USs Scott Wolf said that the game's "[i]rritations [...] outweigh any enjoyment you might find". PC Gamer UK offered a dissenting opinion; despite calling the initial learning curve "alpine", the reviewer wrote, "After a while [...] Deus suddenly starts being fun. You begin to get the hang of the interface, and start to get into the plot".
1996 in video gaming
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survival simulation game developed by Silmarils
Silmarils (company)
Silmarils is a French computer game software company named after the Silmarils of J. R. R. Tolkien's saga.Silmarils was founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and Andre Rocques. It produced games for PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Atari Falcon....
and published by ReadySoft. It is the sequel to Robinson's Requiem
Robinson's Requiem
Robinson's Requiem is a 1994 survival simulation game developed by Silmarils and published by ReadySoft. Players assume the role of Officer Trepliev, a member of the fictional Alien World Exploration department, whose spacecraft is sabotaged to crash land on a prison planet called Zarathustra...
. The player again assumes the role of Robinson's Requiem protagonist Officer Trepliev, who has become a bounty hunter for the Alien World Exploration department. The player's goal is to save a scientific research station from a group of terrorists called the New Crusaders. Like Robinson's Requiem, the game features complex health monitoring and surgery systems; however, the game now contains an optional "action mode", which removes these systems.
Deus critical reception was mixed. Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World was a computer game magazine founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication. Early issues were typically 40-50 pages in length, written in a newsletter style, including submissions by game designers such as Joel Billings , Dan Bunten , and Chris Crawford...
found the realism of the simulation mode to be overwhelming, and described the game's action mode as "dull". PC Gamer USs Scott Wolf said that the game's "[i]rritations [...] outweigh any enjoyment you might find". PC Gamer UK offered a dissenting opinion; despite calling the initial learning curve "alpine", the reviewer wrote, "After a while [...] Deus suddenly starts being fun. You begin to get the hang of the interface, and start to get into the plot".