Platform(s): Windows PC via Steam
Genre: Action/Shooter
Estimated year of release: 2000-2010
Graphics/art style: 3D third person shooter
Notable characters:
Notable gameplay mechanics: I tried a demo of a game on Steam many moons ago, but I’m certain it no longer is on Steam. Here is what I remember:
It was a third person shooter and early on in the demo you encountered this big rug hanging on a horizontal pole in a small backroom with many crates. You could shoot the rug, and it had physics calculations, that made it move believably.
[Fig. 1]
Then you encountered enemies in a huge room with ramps. Somehow you could take control of them or use your mind powers on them somehow. They had an aura to indicate this, which I think was a light blue.
[Fig. 2]
The same level also had a puzzle with ramps that were held up with hooks on a chain. You could mind-power those hooks to move them, so that the ramp would come falling down and let you walk up, or let enemies fall down.
[Fig. 3]
I know that many signs point to Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and it looks close to what is in my mind, but I have not found any footage of the incredible rug, or the hook puzzle that I remember so clearly.
If you have five hours, here’s the whole game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAiQyx39l8k
Also, the rug was not part of any game mechanic. It was just a great rug. So it may be a PhysX exclusive rug, which I don’t know this longplay used.
I knew it was psyops. It was a very fun game with cheats on so you could just ragdoll enemies all day long.
Looks like perfect sleep material for me. Thanks!
Let us know if the sound of a big rug being shot, or the sound of someone walking by a big rug that can be shot, but not shooting it, wakes you up.
Def will do
Yes, but all my memories are from the Windows demo, and that may not even be part of the full game.
There are flags at 1:18:00, that look like they might react to gunfire, but they are not shot at.
Didn’t see anything else, in this video, that looks like the incredible rug.
Second Sight maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sight_(video_game)
This is a good guess, but I don’t think the gameplay involved this much sneaking from what I can see at first glance.
Haven’t played either, but 3rd person with mind control mechanics brings to mind Messiah and Omikron: the Nomad Soul (with David Bowie!)
![[PC][2000s] A soldier using mind powers, and shooting the rug.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/af1ad3ea-cdc5-447a-bd0b-26c68a4eb4f9.jpeg){kind=link}