Virtuoso (video game)

Virtuoso
North American DOS cover art
Developer(s) MotiveTime Ltd.
Publisher(s) DOS
3DO
Programmer(s) Andrew G. Williams
Mat Draper
Peter Wake
Artist(s) Andrew Taylor
Russell Phillips
Wayne Edwards
Composer(s) Thai Dyed Suicide
Platform(s) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
MS-DOS
Release DOS
3DO
Genre(s) Third-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Virtuoso[lower-alpha 1] is a third-person shooter video game developed by MotiveTime Ltd. and originally published by Nova Spring and Elite Systems in North American and Europe for the MS-DOS in 1994.

Gameplay

Virtuoso is the story of a rock musician in the year 2055, who decides to spend his time battling in Virtual Reality.[2]

Ports

A port of Virtuoso for the Atari Jaguar CD was announced in the January 1995 issue of online magazine Atari Explorer Online and was in development and planned to be published by Telegames.[3] It was originally slated for a Spring/Summer 1995 release and later planned for a Q2 1995 release,[4][5][6][7] however, Telegames UK president Pete Mortimer stated in a email exchange that work on the port and other upcoming titles from the company for the Atari Jaguar platform were suspended after sales of previous titles published by them were not profitable.[8]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "The game is Doom without the first person perspective or any of the fun."[2]

Electronic Gaming Monthly's Seanbaby placed it as number 5 in his "20 worst games of all time" feature.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Virtuoso: Rock & Roll Shooting (Japanese: バーチャル・ソー: ロック そして ロール 射撃 Hepburn: Bācharu sō: Rokkunrōru Satsuei) in Japan on the 3DO.

References

  1. ↑ "3DO Soft > 1995". GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  2. 1 2 "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 94.
  3. ↑ "Atari Explorer Online - Volume 4, Issue 1". atarihq.com. January 16, 1995. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  4. ↑ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 2. Future Publishing. January 1995. p. 50.
  5. ↑ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 5. Future Publishing. April 1995. p. 42.
  6. ↑ "Feature - XT Generation Report - Atari Jaguar". MAN!AC (in German). No. 20. Cybermedia Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. June 1995. p. 40.
  7. ↑ Nepožitek, Marek (July 1995). "Konzole - Jaguar+CD - CD a virtuální realita již tento rok?". LeveL (in Czech). No. 6. Naked Dog, s.r.o. p. 44.
  8. ↑ Reutter, Hans. "Unreleased Or Unfinished Jaguar Games - Virtuoso". cyberroach.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  9. ↑ P. Reiley, Sean. "Seanbaby's EGM's Crapstravaganza - #5: Virtuoso (3DO)". seanbaby.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2006.
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