VOODOO LOUNGE REVIEW - November 1995
| This only qualifies as a game in the loosest sense, but
more on that in a second. It's the CD-ROM of the latest album by grizzled beat combo
the Rolling Stones, but rather than (for example) letting you play the tracks on the
album, perhaps accompanied by exciting visual displays of some sort, you're forced to
wade your way through a colossal vat of treacly Quick Time (surely irony at play here)
video clips of the Stones hanging around at a 'decadent' party in a big house.
The house is full of many other interesting-looking guests, but you're only allowed
to talk to the Stones, who come across as every bit as smug and unpleasant as you might
imagine 50-year-old millionaires selling rebellion as a living might be. You'll have to search around in painful slow motion for a special room if you want to play any songs (of which you only get four in any case), and the high point of the whole sorry episode is watching Ronnie Wood go for a wee in the toilets before admiring himself afterwards in a mirror IN WHICH HE HAS NO REFLECTION, thereby confirming any vampire/Dorian Gray/sloppy cash-in suspicions that you may have had all along. Awful. VERDICT (Don't) start me up. 8% |
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