D.I.R.T. Origin of the Species

by TRI SYNERGY INC

Product Features

• Hardcore action meets RPG in this fast-paced 3rd-person adventure
• Present-day conspiracy with military and Sci-Fi enemies; real-world locations
• Rewarding character enhancement system; almost 20 traditional weapons
• Fast, flexible movement system; 10+ special offensive and defensive moves
• Compelling risk vs. reward stakes earn extra information and abilities

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0002IBEL4
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: February 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,167 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

An innocent camping trip into the Nevada desert takes a deadly turn when military black operations test a new viral weapon codename Project G.I.Ants, designed to create battle field infantry by mutating commonly found insects and parasites. When this test run goes horribly wrong the lives of eight friends and a desert community is altered irrevocably.

Waking up in a jail appearing to be in New York the player, an urban girl in her late teens, must remember what happened and set off to find her friends and save them from the madness. There is of course a couple of problems....

The presence of the virus "Triton-76" used by "Project G.I.Ants" in the surrounding air starts to trigger powerful and frightening mutations in the player and a standard order for the elimination of any witness.

Features:

• Hardcore action meets RPG featuring Nu Generation's RPG Lite technology to produce an unobtrusive, straight forward, and ultimately rewarding character enhancement system.
• RPG Lite "Play as you want" system applies Style Points to the action genre by allowing players to choose the way they want to play each level of the game.
• Over 10 special offensive and defensive moves to choose. Use these on their own or combine them with traditional blasting to produce wild new emergent game play styles and innovative new combos.
• Traditional blasting fans will not be disappointed either, with close to 20 traditional weapons from 9mms to S.M.G to R.P.G to Rail Gun, Pheromone gun, and Graviton beam.
• Fast and flexible movement system tailored for combat game play. The game features compact and dynamic dodge moves as well as traditional jump and double jump.
• Interact and save the NPCs in the game world with compelling risk vs. reward stakes to earn extra information and abilities.
• Rigid body dynamics, rag doll, and vehicles are all accounted for in the realistic physics engine that drives the Origin of the Species game world.
• Introducing a new and exciting main character, Dirt, the urban rock chick, g-string wearing girl, and Mr. Boo, her emotive bear backpack that conveys information about the surrounding game world.
• Fight a vast array of mutated abominations, as well as Black Op Marines and their arsenal of weapons.

Product Description

3rd person action adventure -combines real world locations; present day conspiracy with both military and Sci-Fi enemies to produce a vibrant fast paced game world.For the last four years Nu-Generation Games and thousands of people across the United States and the planet have continued to observe the deliberate application of toxic particles into our atmosphere in order to implement the insidious very highly classified black budget program which has become known as "Project G.I.Ants."System Requirements: 1 GHz Pentium 3/Athlon or 1.2 GHz Duron or Celeron Processor 64 MB DirectX 9 compatible Graphics card with hardware transform and lighting 32-bit only 256 MB RAM 1.5 Gig Hard Disk space Keyboard and Mouse DirectX 9.0 Windows XP2000/98/MEFormat: WIN 98ME2000XP Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 183861000119

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, December 5, 2006

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M. Abner - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: D.I.R.T. Origin of the Species (DVD-ROM)

DIRT could have been a fun game. The graphics are ok and the story line is a bit lacking in certain areas but these two don't bring the game down. Often times the effects are mudane and the sound is missing. Fire a gun and hear the shots every other 10 seconds & the voice acting is horrible. You have the option of autosave or save in game, regardless you start at the beginning of the level every time. You often save people who say, "Here, take this!" and yet they give you nothing... very very buggy. And, of course, the icing on the cake... STARFORCE!!! No thanx, I refuse to install any game with starforce. If you need to know more about SF check this site out. Hope this helps!

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BOYCOTT STARFORCE, January 26, 2007

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H. Le (Crestline, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: D.I.R.T. Origin of the Species (DVD-ROM)

I will no longer buy or play game with STARFORCE on it. Too bad, this is is a game that I really wanted to play, but I will not bend over for STARFORCE. I've only have minor problem with STARFORCE, and while I am against illegal copying, I am also agaisnt destruction of personal property.
Just in case you don't know, STARFORCE is one of the software protection programs that many game publishers use to protect their software from illegal copying, which is all right. However, unlike the other software protection programs, STARFORCE CAN DEGRADE THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR CD/DVD BURNER, MAKING IT SLOWER, and, according to some people, screwed up their optical drive totally. At any rate, please do some research on your own and decide for yourself if STARFORCE is a malware or not before installing any game with STARFORCE on your computer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars blah, December 14, 2006

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Brian Carnett "Bandor" (Equality, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: D.I.R.T. Origin of the Species (DVD-ROM)

graphics range from okay to even with options turned all the way up, voice acting really sucks, overall gameplay is crappy and unfinished. Actions are slow.

It is one of those games where you constantly have to save people. If some moron npc walks onto your grenade you get to restart level - yay!

This should of stayed vaporware.