Omega Boost
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| Developer(s) | Polyphony Digital |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Yasushi Taki Zaika Tei |
| Producer(s) | Kazunori Yamauchi |
| Designer(s) | Yuji Yasuhara |
| Engine | Gran Turismo |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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| Genre(s) | Rail shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| Soundtrack album by CMJK, Shingo Okumura, Daiki Kasho, Takafumi Fujisawa | |
| Released | June 19, 1999 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 63:21 |
| Label | SPE Visual Works |
Omega Boost is a three dimensional shoot 'em up developed by Polyphony Digital for the Sony PlayStation. It was released in 1999 throughout Japan, North America, and Europe by Sony Computer Entertainment.
The game features mecha designs by Shoji Kawamori of Macross fame.
Being released late in the PlayStation's life, Omega Boost is said to have some of the best graphics on the console with parts of the game running at 60 frame/s. The game was criticized by some reviewers for being too short (Nine levels with nine unlockable special missions) and simplistic. However, it is still considered one of the best Macross-style mecha simulation games produced and is thought of by many as a sleeper hit due to its poor marketing.
In the past, an artificial intelligence named AlphaCore peacefully and silently co-existed with the human race. One day, the humans became aware of AlphaCore and its capabilities, and were shocked by what it is capable of. Humanity tried to 'dump' AlphaCore but it rebelled against humanity, starting a war between humans and machines. This war goes on into the distant future, with mankind steadily being outmatched by AlphaCore, who is capable of destroying entire cities easily.
In this future, scientists devise a way to travel through time in order stop AlphaCore. However, AlphaCore discovers this plan and steals the time travel technology. It builds a giant shaft, the Timeshaft, on a desolate, mined out planet named ETA, and uses this to travel back in time and alter ENIAC, which in this future is considered the first artificial intelligence. It plans to implant a virus into one of ENIAC's vacuum tubes, thus creating a predestination paradox and ensuring its survival in the present day.
To counter AlphaCore's scheme, human scientists create the Omega Boost, a giant robot capable of traveling through time using the Direct Drive System (DDS). Lester J. Hemming, an experienced pilot and one of very few who can pilot the Omega Boost, is charged with traveling back in time to stop AlphaCore by finding ENIAC and replacing the AlphaCore infected vacuum tube, thus stopping AlphaCore before it even has a chance to exist.
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