Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
The game's universe stays faithful to Homer's the Odyssey, including its characters, Poseidon, Zeus, Cerberus and the Cyclops. Penelope, who has had no news of Ulysses for many years, requests that Heritias…
Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses is an adventure, released 14 October 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses is
Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses was released in 2000. It was published by Cryo Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Cryogen.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game's universe stays faithful to Homer's the Odyssey, including its characters, Poseidon, Zeus, Cerberus and the Cyclops. Penelope, who has had no news of Ulysses for many years, requests that Heritias set off in search of his childhood friend. Heritias first goes to Troy, the last place the leader of the Achaean troops was seen. In the game, the player has to fight creatures like the Gorgon and the Cyclops and you will have to foil the manipulation of the gods to escape from the conspiracy of Poseidon's agents, and resist the seductive enchantress.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses launched on 14 October 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Escape from Monkey Island and Zeus: Master of Olympus. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Escape from Monkey Island, Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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