Sentient
Sentient is a first-person adventure developed by Psygnosis and released on the PlayStation in 1997. It was also released for the PC the same year. Sentient's main feature is the artificial intelligence…
Sentient is an adventure developed by Psygnosis, released 10 April 1997 on PlayStation, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sentient is
Sentient is an adventure game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are sent to investigate an outbreak of radiation sickness aboard the space station Icarus, but once aboard, you realize your primary objective is the least of your worries. The captain has been murdered, an assassin threatens a visiting senior Senator, and a power struggle arises as the station careens toward the sun. Save yourself, or save the ship?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Sentient holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sentient launched on 10 April 1997, within three weeks of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Star Fox 64, Blast Corps and Doom 64. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Star Fox 64, Blast Corps, Doom 64.
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