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Weird Oceanic Exploration Video Games
Here is a list of a few oddball games where you do little more than roam around a virtual ocean and check out the sights. In the past, I’m sure people thought that this is what the future would look like—we would no longer actually go deep sea diving, we would just experience it virtually in the comfort of our own homes.
Endless Ocean
With the subtitle, “Dive. Discover. Dream” you should know what you are in for when you play “Endless Ocean.” Less of a game than an underwater visualizer, or playable screen saver, there is little in the way of a plot but the emphasis is on exploration. As you search the ocean with your spear and hid light ocean lamp you can identify new species and bring them back to the surfaces to populate a virtual aquarium to show off your discoveries. There is lots of different diving scenarios, from cave diving to deep-water and wreck diving. Many critics and family-friendly groups praised the game for its relaxing and refreshing change from the violence that pervades gaming today.
Ecco the Dolphin
A strange and innovative title at the time for the Sega CD system, “Ecco the Dolphin” but your in control of a dolphin and his pod. The story revolves around your search to rescue some marine creatures and then there is something about raveling back in time to Atlantis to destroy a Vortext Queen. It doesn’t really matter, the fun of the game was how cool it felt to control a dolphin as he did flips in the air and cruised along in the ocean. It is still a fun and odd game to play today and was recently re-released for download on the Xbox 360 and Wii systems.
Everblue
A precursor to the open-ended scuba diving roaming of “Endless Ocean,” “Everblue” came out in 2002 for the Playstation 2 system and was probably more of game to show off the then powerful and wowing graphical powers of the Playstation 2 at the time. The difference between “Everblue” and “Endless Ocean” is that in “Everblue” you are in the first person view, instead of third person, giving the game a more realistic view of what it would be like to really be scuba diving in the deep.
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Alan McGee is a freelance writer from MN.