Meat Puppet (PC 1997)

A dark and moody cyber punk action game.

Played from a top down isometric view, meat puppet puts you in the role of a young woman caught in the middle of a corparate war between to massive mega corps.

You are under the control of an unknown force that speaks to you via a floating remote AI droid, to enforce thier control over you they have implanted explosives in your neck (alla escape from new-york) that will detinate if you are caught or try to escape thier clutchs.

The visuals are very syndicate like, the isometric view enforces this impresion as do the video screens and posters that advertise cruel future sports and manufatured products.

Where this game stands out is the soundtrack, its very techno gothic , lots of industrial funk tunes and thumping base lines.

Due to the age of this game the graphics do not require a 3D card and run in software mode 640 by 480 or 800 by 600 so nothing mind blowing in the look department, also baing late 90's means lots of cut scenes and video sequences.

The highlight for me is when you aproach the first boss (a scientist who is staring out a large window looking over a futrue cityscape) from behide, you put the gun to the back of his head and blow it clean off, being a boss battle this would be fairly disapointing end if hit did not hit the floor and grow legs, the rest of the battle has you attacked by both the now spider like head and the blind wandering body, class!

I picked this game up in 2001 in game-trader in haywards heath,