Sanity: Aiken's Artifact is a shooter developed by Monolith Productions, released 26 September 2000 on Dreamcast and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sanity: Aiken's Artifact is
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact is a shooter game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2000. It was published by Fox Interactive. It is available on Dreamcast and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LithTech 2.x.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Several decades before the game starts, a world-renowned genetic engineer named Doctor Joan Aiken discovered a way to utilise the unused portion of the human brain via a serum. The serum would give the user psychic abilities, or "talents", which could manipulate the world around them, for example levitating or shooting a bolt of lightning. Talents were split into collections called totems, and each Psionic specialised in the use of one totem, others even founding their own. Aiken became the founder of the Science totem. When the game starts, Cain has just been suspended from the DNPC following an incident with Priscilla Divine, leader of the Eye of Ra (a radical organisation who wish to…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 8 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact launched on 26 September 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Dino Crisis 2 and Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Dino Crisis 2, Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Official trailer
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