Fans of Rodney Alan Greenblat take heed: the avant-garde painter/sculptor-turned-digital-media artist has a new CD-ROM. Like Rodney's Wonder Window, his first edgy, rib-tickling CD-ROM "game," Dazzeloids is ostensibly for kids, but shows signs of becoming a cult favorite among grown-ups.
Dazzeloids demands more of your brain power than your motor skills. In opening scenes, you are introduced to the Dazzeloid team and its leader - an eccentric countess and idealistic visionary - who seek to promote creativity. Your job is to aid them in their battle against the evil forces of television boredom and soulless corporate might.
Dazzeloids is short on high-tech effects and long on originality. Well-developed story lines and unusual characters heighten its appeal. Several evocative dream scenarios, featuring stunning galleries of animations accompanied by original compositions written and performed by Greenblat, put MTV's customary music-video fodder to shame.
Tackling big issues with his signature whimsy, Greenblat musters a highly idiosyncratic vision to illuminate some universal moral truths.
Dazzeloids, for Mac and Windows: US$39.95. Voyager (800) 446 2001, +1 (914) 591 5500, fax +1 (914) 591 6481, e-mail orders@voyagerco.com.
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