OK, bucko. It's 2066 and you're on the camping trip of your life. Oh, yeah - if you didn't know it, you're a female environmental scientist named Lilah. Frolicking in the pristine wilderness with your pal Max, you find this glistening black rock that is living and growing with exponential alacrity. Then Max disappears, and you've got to find him.
You've entered the odd world of Obsidian. Three years in the making, Rocket Science's game is a masterful, sprawling hallucination of artful graphics and explorations. Its five worlds take you from dreams of ornate picture frames in the sky to nightmares starring a mammoth metal spider. Physics? You don't need no stinking physics. In Obsidian, a flat plain balances perfectly on a mountain peak. Heading toward one quandary resolution (and the next level), you lead an army of nanobots to build a structure one molecule at a time. A mere 25 more blissfully aggravating puzzles await.
One catch is you need a souped-up PC with quad-speed CD-ROM and sound card (to hear Thomas Dolby's eerie refrains). But with these, you're sure to savor this addictive immersion into alternative universes.
Obsidian: US$59.99. Segasoft: (888) 734 2763, +1 (415) 802 4400, on the Web at www.segasoft.com/.
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