Symbiocom

Symbiocom is a first person adventure game developed by Istvan Pely in 1998 and is the predecessor to Zero Critical (1999).[1]

Symbiocom
Developer(s)Istvan Pely Productions
Publisher(s)Bethesda Softworks
Designer(s)Istvan Pely, Sherban Young
Artist(s)Istvan Pely
Composer(s)Seth W. Jones
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
Release1998
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot and gameplay

The player is a crew member aboard I.S.T. Rident, a class B space-faring passenger liner in the delta quadrant. Implanted into the player's brain is a "sym" (synthetic symbiont), a symbiotic artificial intelligence. As a maintenance engineer, the player was assigned to fix gravity arrays, which Rident was experiencing a problem with its artificial gravity generators. As a safety measure the captain disabled the ship's worm-drive while the gravity generator is being worked on. Disabling the worm-drive reduced the speed and altitude of the vessel. Rident is then attacked by two war ships. the Rident shakes violently, knocking the passengers off balance, and alarms start going off. The captain orders an SOS distress signal to be sent and hollers to prepare the lifeboats. The player falls unconscious while busy fixing ship's gravitomagnetism.

The game begins with the player being woken by alerts from the implanted sym. I.S.T. Rident is left adrift in the depths of space and the player is alone aboard a deserted spacecraft. The player's objectives are to escape from the crippled transport and to find out who destroyed the ship and what happened to the approximately 163 passengers aboard.

The puzzles are inventory and logic types. Each location is displayed with 3D pre-rendered graphics, with a 360 degree view and "move along a rail" videos from location to location. There are five chapters in Symbiocom, each taking place in a different location. The locales are generally unpopulated. There are no character interactions in the game; only the player and sym are present. However player does encounters some drones and an entertainment robot throughout the game.

References
  1. "Symbiocom". MobyGames. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
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