Omikron: The Nomad Soul

Trivia

Omikron was originally supposed to get a PS1 release. However, Eidos didn't believe that the PS1 version would even sell and they urged Quantic Dream to move it to the Dreamcast as Eidos thought the Dreamcast would be a worthy successor to the current generation console then. However, things didn't go the way as Eidos expected as the Dreamcast wasn't a hit. David Cage, the writer and director for Omikron, claimed that the biggest regret was to not release it on the PS1.

Omikron is one of the letters of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the Latin O.

Contributed by Unicorn Lynx (69320) on May 15, 2004.

David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels wrote the entire soundtrack exclusively for the game, consisting of eight songs; "Thursday's Child", "Something in the Air", "Survive", "Seven", "We All Go Through", The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell", "Omikron (New Angels of Promise)" and "The Dreamers"... seven of which appeared later on David Bowie's album, hours

The game makes extensive use of a special typography. The font can be downloaded for free from the developers at http://www.quanticdream.com/download/Omikron.ttf

Contributed by Isdaron (695) on Jul 18, 2001.

David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels created the soundtrack for Omikron.

Featuring David Bowie as Boz, the Virtual Being. For the role of Boz, David Bowie contributed his voice and allowed a graphic fantasy rendition to be made of himself for the role. In addition, his wife, supermodel Iman, acts as the model for one of the characters (Iman 631) in the game that players can take control of as part of the "virtual reincarnation" process.