Virtuoso (video game)

Virtuoso
Developer(s)MotiveTime
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
DOS
ReleaseDOS
3DO
Genre(s)Third-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Virtuoso[a] is a third-person shooter video game developed by MotiveTime and originally published by Nova Spring and Elite Systems in North America and Europe, respectively, for DOS in 1994 and then 3DO in 1995.

Gameplay

DOS version screenshot.

Virtuoso is a game set in the year 2055 where the player is a rock musician who fights 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 by Williams Brothers Developments 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][8] However, Telegames UK president Pete Mortimer stated in an email exchange with website CyberRoach 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.[9]

Reception

Next Generation gave two stars out of five for PC version of the game; the magazine was critical to its gameplay and called it a Doom clone without the first person perspective or fun.[2]

Electronic Gaming Monthly's Seanbaby placed it as number 5 in his "20 worst games of all time" feature.[10]

Reviews

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" (in Japanese). GAME Data Room. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  2. ^ a b "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 94.
  3. ^ Bates, Darren (January 16, 1995). "Cuppa with the Dooz". Atari Explorer Online. Vol. 4, no. 1. Subspace Publishers. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  4. ^ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 2. Future Publishing. January 1995. p. 50. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  5. ^ "Actualités Internationales". CD Consoles (in French). No. 5. Pressimage. March 1995. p. 20.
  6. ^ "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 5. Future Publishing. April 1995. p. 42.
  7. ^ "Feature - XT Generation Report - Atari Jaguar". MAN!AC (in German). No. 20. Cybermedia. June 1995. p. 40.
  8. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  9. ^ Reutter, Hans (July 24, 2000). "Unreleased Or Unfinished Jaguar Games - Virtuoso". cyberroach.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  10. ^ P. Reiley, Sean. "Seanbaby's EGM's Crapstravaganza - #5: Virtuoso (3DO)". seanbaby.com. Archived from the original on 2006-07-07. Retrieved 2019-01-05.