Virtuoso (video game)
Virtuoso | |
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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
References
- ↑ "3DO Soft > 1995". GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- 1 2 "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 94.
- ↑ "Atari Explorer Online - Volume 4, Issue 1". atarihq.com. January 16, 1995. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- ↑ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 2. Future Publishing. January 1995. p. 50.
- ↑ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 5. Future Publishing. April 1995. p. 42.
- ↑ "Feature - XT Generation Report - Atari Jaguar". MAN!AC (in German). No. 20. Cybermedia Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. June 1995. p. 40.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Reutter, Hans. "Unreleased Or Unfinished Jaguar Games - Virtuoso". cyberroach.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- ↑ P. Reiley, Sean. "Seanbaby's EGM's Crapstravaganza - #5: Virtuoso (3DO)". seanbaby.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2006.