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Rez is a video game produced by Tetsuya Mizuguchi for Sega's Dreamcast (2001). It later appeared on Sony's PlayStation 2 (2002) and was offered as a downloadable game via Xbox Live Arcade for Microsoft's Xbox 360 (2008). The game is dedicated to the artist Wassily Kandinsky .

The game belongs to the rail shooter genre . The player flies as a hacker through a surreal cyberspace 3D environment on fixed paths and has to shoot down the emerging opponents ( computer viruses and firewalls ) - as many as possible at once.

Outstanding features are, on the one hand, its distinctly technoid 3D world through which the player glides, but above all the way in which game sounds are integrated into the music and the way in which the game plays changes the music itself. Musicians / composers involved in Rez are Coldcut , Joujouka , Adam Freeland , Tsuyoshi and Keiichi Sugiyama .

story

An artificial intelligence called Eden is responsible for general data traffic in the global data network. Due to the enormous amount of knowledge she has accumulated as a result, Eden doubts her own existence and has therefore started to shut herself off. The player's task is to find Eden in the role of a hacker in the network and to keep himself from switching himself off in order to prevent a chaotic collapse of the network.

Game flow

The player has to fight his way through five worlds to find Eden. Each world is divided into ten sections, which the player must "analyze" further by shooting a net opening. The more of the section that has been analyzed, the more complex the level geometry and the more voluminous the background music. If the player has reached the tenth section, he must compete against an end boss in the form of a firewall. The game and the story are purposely made quite simple, as the game is not primarily geared towards a profit goal. Rather, the player should experience rez with all of his senses through the interaction of music, sound effects, colors, game events and force feedback through vibrating controllers .

equipment

While the Dreamcast version only had a vibrating controller with the purchase of a Rumble Pak , an extra trance vibrator with a USB connection could be purchased for the PlayStation 2 - which already had vibration in the DualShock 2 controller. This should serve to put the player even more into the game with significantly stronger vibrations that match the music. Sometimes this was also misused as a sex toy. The trance vibrator was only released in Japan, but also works with the PAL version in Europe. Device drivers for different operating systems such as Windows 2000 / XP or Linux have even been created through reverse engineering .

Individual evidence

  1. Official Rez website with the subpage "artists" ( Memento from November 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Chris Kohler: Better Than a Joystick. Wired, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  3. Jane Pinckard: Sex in Games: Rez + Vibrator. www.gamegirladvance.com, accessed March 25, 2009 .

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