Hey, it took 19 years, but it’s gonna be SO worth the wait.
For those who don’t know what the hell Lawnmower Man is (which is pretty much anyone under the age of 25 by my best guess), take a look…
What you just saw was “cutting edge computer graphics” for it’s time (circa 1992 to be exact). I won’t bother explaining what the movie was all about, other than to provide a very bite-sized summation of the plot: James Bond decides to submit the dimwitted gardener (we’re talking idiot with a capital “I”)to assorted VR tests, turning him into God in the process. Seriously. It’s also worth noting that the flick was based upon a story by Stephen King, who thought it was such a stinker that he sued the studio to have his name removed. He won that case if I’m not mistaken.
A game based on the movie was released at the time, for the SNES and Genesis, but because the tech simply couldn’t handle the subject matter, the adaptation barely resembled the source material. Well, better late than never, though its now called Child of Eden…
In reality, it’s actually the follow-up to a relatively obscure 2001 title called Rez, which I’m a HARDCORE fan of btw. For the sake of comparison, here’s what that game looked like (the recent HD update to be exact)…
The thing about Rez is how it’s basically what designers back in the early 80s figured what gaming would look like, or least I’d like to believe. Basically, “primitive” flat-shaded polygons and vector-ish looking graphics, but on steroids. So I guess it’s appropriate that it’s successor evokes early 90s sensibilities, with the globs of color and especially the waving around one’s hands in mid air (again, much like in Lawnmower Man). The future from two decades past is finally here! Maybe that’s why the response thus far has been somewhat lukewarm.
I asked this as a kid, in response to the flick, and I’ll ask it now in response to the Eden’s trailer; won’t your arms get awfully tired real quick? Thankfully, one can play the game with a traditional control scheme.