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Game Information
- Platform: GameCube
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Explore the compound as a ghost, then possess more than a dozen unique character types -- use their weapons, equipment, skills, and even memories, to complete your goals
- Choose different characters and see the world in different ways - from soldiers with guns to dog- and mouse-like creatures
- Travel through the human world virtually unseen, using your abilities to slip through cracks, interfere with electronics, move objects and more
- Collect the energy of other spirits to help unravel the mystery and build your own power
- All-new multiplayer modes combine first-person combat with unique ghost and possession mechanics
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You are John Raimi, a disease-control agent with the federal government, on loan to an elite counterterrorism unit. Your team is sent to investigate the shadowy Volks Corporation. When the operation goes horribly wrong, you are captured and subjected to a ghastly experiment that rips your spirit from your physical body. You now roam the halls of the Volks Corporation compound as a spectral phantom, using your powers to scare and possess any human or animal that crosses your path.
If you're going to have any hope of finding your own body, you must employ your hair-raising power of possession to control humans, animals and objects, using the unique abilities of each to explore the compound, solve puzzles and strike at your enemies. Along the way, you must discover the secret of the Volks Corporation to unravel the mystery of your condition and find a way to recover your human form.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed Ratings?,
By afrazkhan "frazmatron" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Geist (GameCube) (Video Game)
This game has been getting _extremely_ mixed reviews, and I can't understand why. Perhaps because everyone had been looking forward to it for such a long time, and it resulted in an anticlimax (which happens to anything you build up too much).Edge magazine, the only publication I trust, gave this 40%. That just isn't fair. Then on the other hand the highest rating it's received is 88%. There's something very wrong here, and for all of you who are confused, I'll try and give a heads up by listing fors and againsts below (hopefully an analytical approach like this will help clear up confusion): Against: For: Overall, I loved it, and rate it the best game since Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. No reservations about recommending this game.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Playable, but forgettable,
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This review is from: Geist (GameCube) (Video Game)
I received Geist as a Christmas present and I was looking forward to playing it. However, I soon found it to be not quite to be what I was expecting.The storyline is that whilst investigating Volks Corp, you are captured and submitted to an experiment that separates your soul from your body in order to train you as a Spec Ops - a special spirit operative than can possess world leaders and bend them to the will of the shadowy CEO of Volks Corp. However, during the training process the machinery malfunctions, and you are freed, and thus are able to explore Volks Corp by possessing those humans, animals or objects you find along the way, in order to find out what is happening and find your body and regain it. In principle it sounds excellent but turns out to be rather too formulaic. You are not free to explore as you will but must progress along a certain route - hence, you can only possess certain things and certain people. If you possess someone and you allow him/her/it to die, then often you have to restart the level as you require that host to complete the stage. What is quite entertaining is the fact that in order to possess someone, you have to scare them - hence, you spend a lot of time finding the "scare sequences" you need, which you do by possessing objects near to your planned host and making them do weird things - fire extinguishers fire off, mirrors crack, weird displays appear on computer screens, sinks start choking out blood. These can be quite entertaining but the formulaic nature slightly ruins it; it is simply a case of finding the object you need to possess and hitting the button to make it perform the preprepared action. The first person fighting is rather dull; you spend much of your time possessing soldiers with fairly basic assault rifles. The controls aren't fantastic with none of the realism you get in other games - aiming is simply a case of lining up the crosshairs which will then stay in position and firing off a few rounds. Each host can preform a "special action" but often this is boring or pointless; animal hosts make a noise, some soldiers duck, some special hosts like scientists jump. Ultimately, the game becomes an attempt to get from one place to the next by following the preprepared route. The puzzles are generally fairly basic and there are plenty of clues for how to solve them. The fighting aspect of the game could have been done better and although possessing is fun, you can only possess certain hosts when really you would like to possess anyone you see. However, the graphics are pretty good, the sound is good and the storyline is long enough to keep you diverted for a while. It is worth playing, but it isn't going to stick in your mind for long afterwards.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice ideas but flawed.,
This review is from: Geist (GameCube) (Video Game)
Geist has been in development over at N-SPACE almost as long as video games them selves and it has always been a game i was looking foward to because of the unique posessing elements, essentialy Geist is a mix between a FPS,FPA(first person shooter/adventure)and survival horror game you play as john ramai a sientist who has been captured in a militry opperation experimented on and his soul ripped from his body and now you wander the corridors as a ghost scaring the hell out of every one in site.Ok so the game sounds quite cool right? well geist is like watching pulp fiction on a black and white T.V with bad reception as in it has great ideas some good moments but the game is seriously flawed, at first the posession element seems outstanding you blow up a computer to get the attention of the guard by this time he is a little nervious you then fly in to the rubbish bin next to him and set the contents on fire, this really scares his and now you can posess him and control his body but with in a few levels it starts getting boring because after you have scared a few people they are all exactly the same and it feels very repetative.For me the shooting sections were the best but they wern't great, the enemi AI is terrible you can kill a soldier but his mate 10 foot away wont even realise and allowes you to easly shoot him strait in the head, energy packs are found on every corner making it very hard to die aswell as your unlimited ammo and some of the boss fights are so boring you will want to turn off your Gamecube(although a few boss fights are also good), Also when you posess a soldier you can only use the wepon he was holding when you posessed him even though guns should be lying every where since you just shot down a few hundered people. The multi-player although having some really cool ideas like human vs ghost(the human trys to kill a ghost by shooting and ghost trys to posess human, once posessed you can take controll of the human and lead him to his death)matches are also flawed because it is almost impossible for the human to win. The graphics are top notch looks very realistic there is some slowdown though every now and then Like i sayed earlier Geist showed massive potential but dosent deliver, how about a revolution sequal made by retro studios Nintendo?
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