Amazon.com Review: Messiah puts a spin on typical third-person action-adventure gameplay. The player's character, a diaper-clad cherub named Bob, has been sent down from the heavens to set the world straight. Scientists experimenting with dimensional portals have brought the Lord of Darkness, as well as other nefarious minions, into the world. God hopes you, as his miniature messiah, can clean up the streets and restore order.
Bob lacks many important abilities; the baby angel can run, crawl, push buttons, and hover slightly with his tiny little wings, but he can't carry weapons or directly fight his many enemies. Bob must possess characters inside the game world in order to use weaponry (which include flamethrowers, machine guns, grenades, and shotguns), solve puzzles, and traverse difficult platform-style obstacles. The player will possess and depossess dozens of different character types during the adventure--everything from dancers, rats, and cops to nuclear technicians and large armored beasts. Messiah's diverse gameplay consists of knowing whom to possess and when, and then using the host to the utmost potential.
Despite being in development for over three years, Messiah's 3-D engine and special effects compare well with the latest and greatest computer games. Still, there have been reports of glitches with the most recent advancements in 3-D video card technology. A troubleshooting page at www.messiah.com/troubleshooting.htm solves most graphics card issues.
Messiah's visuals scale down to meet your computer's speed. If you're using a slower computer, the engine automatically removes detail and special effects so you maintain a satisfactory frame rate. The effect works, but the amount of detail lost means you should still strive for the fastest machine possible (at least the minimum requirements) when you assume the role of Messiah. --Doug Radcliffe
Pros:
The art of possession introduces a unique spin to gameplay
Excellent graphics engine that scales down to meet your computer's speed
Solid blend of a third-person shooter and third-person sneaker
Cons:
Several bugs in initial release
Amazon.com Product Description: Bob is a working-class angel, ordered by God himself, to clean up the putrid, disgusting, sleazy, and infested world of the future. He has been given the power of possession so that he can sneak up on any person, animal, or genetically engineered being and leap right into their soul!
With your help, Bob can then use their bodies, their weapons, or even their bare hands to strangle, cripple, impale, and incinerate the cities of sinners sent to stop you from finding Satan himself. Hiding in their souls, Bob can use these sinners' bodies against their will as armor (to take pain for him), or he can use them for camouflage (to hide inside them) and pretend to be just another twisted citizen in the Messiah world.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Incedible game and a unique Idea
I played this along time ago and was immersed until the end. It was on my old PC and the graphics were top notch but I could not play at full copacity...I am now going to play it on my new gaming pc and it shall rock..This game is beutiful, challenging, full of action and smarts. The idea behind the game play is awesome. The worlds and characters are realistic and belivable...so, put on that Halo and get ready to be plunged into a new futuristic world!!!
Rating: - Awsome
This game has some of the best graphis i have seen and overal game play (once you adjust the controlls) rules. The dude that said it had too many bugs probably has a bad computer
Rating: - Good idea...
Not for the faint of heart! It's a hard game to describe, but it's basically a 3rd-person view type of thing with lots of depth, if a wack ending.
You play an angel named Bob who is sent from Heaven to stop evil forces from taking over the Earth. How do you stop them? With your one lone ability: bodily possession. As Bob, you can do little else than flap around and be a target (and everyone is gunning for you). But when Bob inhabits a police officer or a mindless behemoth or a pimp, it's a whole 'nother ballgame. You then have the ability to slap, punch, kick, shoot and maim your way to the head honcho himself: Satan.
Lots of violence and mayhem, and a way-too-hard to figure out stretch of logistics (at some point you'll be going online to find out what the heck you should do next, only to find out you messed up six hours ago when you didn't get the BLUE I.D. card from the security guard at the power plant, only to find out you didn't save your game far enough to be able to manipulate backwards through the game.....ugh), I don't recommend it for people looking for a simply fun game.
Great graphics, great sound and incredible depth, but too hard for even more-than-casual gamers, and with too little a payoff.
Rating: - A piece of junk
This game is terrible. There are too many bugs. The game play isn't smooth. Save your money.
Rating: - Messiah
Messiah is a third person game. Set in the future you play an angel called Bob sent from god to save the world from the bad humans. The angel is very small and weak, It can be easily killed, but it can posses any charecter it wants and take control of the charecter, Only after becoming someone it can carry weapons. The graphics and sound are average, charecter animation are not very impressive. Messiah's problems is that it is quite difficult, To posses someone you need to fly behind him and jump into his back and that is very hard to do so because of the third person camera angle. The game is quite short too.
- Incedible game and a unique Idea
- Awsome
- Good idea...
- A piece of junk
- Messiah
