Biosys

Biosys
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows Edit this on Wikidata
Release February 1999
Genre(s) Adventure, simulation, survival

Biosys is a point-and-click adventure PC game developed by British studio Jumpstart Interactive and published by Take-Two Interactive, released in February 1999.

Development

The game was announced in PC Games issue 74, which noted that Take 2 was working on a render adventure in the style of Myst, which would include puzzles while also conveying biological connections.[1]

Tancred Dyke-Wells artist, animator and game designer on the title.[2] The game has one hundred pre-rendered locations, and includes both a day/night cycle and a health status mechanic.[3]

The game was never published in the US.[4]

Plot

The game follows the protagonist Professor Alan Russell and is set inside the fictional ecological facility Biosphere Four. Russell awakes in what first appears to be a rainforest but is actually one of four artificial biomes.[5] The player initially has to maintain Russel's survival inside this environment and begin to unravel the mysteries behind this facility and the character's current predicament (Russell is suffering from amnesia).

Gameplay

The game is a combination of mystery, puzzle, survival, and simulation genres.[5] Much of the plot and necessary actions revolve around manipulating the biomes' ecological conditions via control panels (e.g. CO2, rainfall, temperature) with noticeable and profound effect on the conditions of the flora and fauna contained within. The four different biomes are 'rainforest', 'savanna', 'ocean', and 'accelerated evolution'.

Critical reception

All Game Guide felt that the game was "impressively detailed", and held the player's interest throughout the mystery plotline.[6] PC Games deemed the game an unusual mix of adventure and eco-simulation, both an edutainment product and a fully-fledged graphical adventure, and recommended it for players interested in ecological issues.[3] Game reviewer Paul Smith thought he game makes more sense than Riven, but that it lacks the mystery of the game.[7] New Scientist thought the game " probably teaches you more biology than you'll realise at the time", and notes that the game requires a fast processor and lots of RAM in order to look its best.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Computec (2015-05-16). PC.Games.N074.1998.11-fl0n.
  2. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tancred1/
  3. 1 2 Computec (2015-08-13). PC.Games.N078.1999.03-fl0n.
  4. ↑ "Biosys: The Best Survival/Puzzler You've Never Heard Of". Imgur. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  5. 1 2 "Biosys for Windows (1999) - MobyGames". MobyGames.
  6. ↑ "Biosys - Review - allgame". 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  7. ↑ "BioSys". 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  8. ↑ New Scientist. New Science Publications. 1999.


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