| 📰 Title: | Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 2.5D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Classical ➤ Sierra, LucasArts, ... | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Adventure; Puzzle; Sci-fi; Story Rich; Sierra, LucasArts, ...; Humorous; Mature; Crafting; Female Protagonist; Classic; Oldie | ⏱️ Pacing: | Point and Click |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2015-04-12 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14701 |
| 📜️[en]: | A priceless vase is lost on a distant planet that doesn’t exist! An irate colonel wants it back! And only one man is experienced enough… skilled enough… and foolish enough to retrieve it! Interstellar adventurer and bungling bachelor Rex Nebular! Join Rex as he pilots the Slippery Pig on a crash course for Terra Androgena, a planet populated entirely by bizarre alien women with big agendas of their own! | 📜️[fr]: | Un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure futuriste et humoristique mettant en scène Rex Nebular, un pilote de vaisseau spatial, aventurier, chasseur de primes et machiste, acceptant un contrat pour partir à la recherche d'un vase sur une planète contrôlée par des femmes ayant éradiquées la gent masculine ... |
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A priceless vase is lost on a distant planet that doesn’t exist! An irate colonel wants it back! And only one man is experienced enough… skilled enough… and foolish enough to retrieve it! Interstellar adventurer and bungling bachelor Rex Nebular!
Join Rex as he pilots the Slippery Pig on a crash course for Terra Androgena, a planet populated entirely by bizarre alien women with big agendas of their own!
Overcome the dizzying array of obstacles and endless traps preventing Rex from returning the priceless pottery! Feel the grotesque effects of the frightening Gender Bender machine! And revel in the mind-blowing graphics and ultra-realistic animation!
Only you can help Rex Nebular complete his mission and escape Terra Androgena alive!
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse in November of 1992.
The game is the first graphical adventure game developed by MicroProse. It was developed using the MicroProse Adventure Development system, and made use of 256-colour graphics.
Plot
The bumbling bachelor, Rex Nebular, has been hired by Colonel Stone to retrieve a vase that holds some sentimental value. Stone offers Rex 75,000 galactars for the return of the vase. Rex agrees and sets out for the last known location of the vase.
He discovers that the planet where the vase was last known to reside has vanished, but his ship's sensors still detect a planetary mass and gravitational field, although none can be seen with the naked eye. Before he is given a chance to investigate further, a large warship decloaks behind him, and fires. His ship is badly damaged and careens towards the planetary mass. He crash-lands on a strange planet, seemingly inhabited by women only. He sets off in search of the vase and a way to get off the planet.
Decades ago, a vicious war between the sexes erupted on the planet. The males focused on developing mechanical and electronic weaponry, while the females focused on biological warfare. In the end, the females unleashed a biological weapon that eliminated the male population. Due to side effects caused by the biological weapon, the females were no longer able to give birth to males, so they had no way of continuing their species. So they invented a machine that would allow them to alter their sex for short periods of time. This machine became known as the Cosmic Gender Bender, or the Gender Bender for short.
The populace of the planet is divided into two classes, Keepers and (breeding) Stock. The Keepers are technologically advanced and reside underground, where they monitor the Stock. The Stock reside above ground and have a primitive culture. Their only purpose is to be impregnated by a gender bent Keeper in order to repopulate the planet.
Characters
• Rex Nebular: Believes he is God's gift to women. Pilot and Captain of his space vessel, the Slippery Pig.
• Colonel Stone: The exact reasoning behind his desire for the vase is never fully explained, but Rex does not care about that. He is only interested in the 75,000 galactar reward.
• Bud: A large, alien male who crash landed on the planet and was held captive by the female inhabitants.
• Herman Spiltmelk: The last known, surviving, indigenous male on the planet.
• Major Karg: Captain of the large warship orbiting the planet.
• Rox: Rex's female alter-ego. Rex becomes Rox after stepping into the Gender Bender device and has his gender temporarily reversed.
• Dr. Slache: The maniacal doctor who examines Rex after his capture and imprisonment in the Keeper's underground base.
Gameplay
The game is divided into three difficulty levels. Higher difficulties have more puzzles and more death encounters. In this game, the left mouse button is used for selecting options and performing actions and the right mouse button is used to look at things (an alternative to selecting the 'look' option and selecting where). Some actions like sitting on a chair are automatically performed with just a left click. There are 10 different options, 2 of which are used to interact with people and 7 of which are used to interact with objects. Items that are picked up have their own sub-options, most of which Rex won't actually do (such as disassembling his binoculars). To get from one room to another the mouse pointer changes to a 'GO' icon where travel is possible. To get from one place to another, Rex will need to make use of teleporters correctly entering the code. The player must also take care to prevent Rex getting killed which can happen in many places. Although Rex can die, the game has unlimited chances and the Rex's last safe position will be restored after death.
Un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure futuriste et humoristique, par le studio MicroProse (fermé), publié par le studio Retroism (partenariat entre les studios Night Dive Studios et Tommo).
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender est un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure futuriste et humoristique (sorti en 1992) mettant en scène Rex Nebular, un pilote de vaisseau spatial, aventurier, chasseur de primes et machiste, acceptant un contrat pour partir à la recherche d'un vase précieux sur une planète contrôlée par des femmes ayant éradiquées la gent masculine ...
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Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender est un jeu vidéo d'aventure de type pointer-et-cliquer produit et réalisé par Microprose et sorti en novembre 1992. C'est le premier et l'un des trois seuls jeux de ce style réalisés par le studio Microprose, jusque là plutôt spécialisé dans les simulations. Rex Nebular est sorti sur PC et Macintosh, en version anglaise uniquement.
Synopsis
Rex Nebular est un pilote de vaisseau spatial, aventurier, chasseur de primes et accessoirement machiste. Alors que sa situation financière est désespérée, l'un de ses créanciers l'envoie à la recherche d'un vase précieux sur une planète lointaine. Celle-ci a été le théâtre, des années auparavant, d'une guerre des sexes qui s'est soldée par la victoire des femmes et la quasi-disparition des hommes. Le vaisseau de Rex s'écrase dans la jungle : il devra réussir à rejoindre la ville désertée où le vase est caché, et trouver de quoi réparer son vaisseau afin de livrer la marchandise.
Les hommes ayant presque tous disparu, les habitantes de la planète utilisent, pour procréer, une machine capable de changer le sexe de son utilisateur, le gender bender. Certaines autochtones tentent néanmoins de profiter de la présence d'un « vrai homme » sur leur planète, dans l'espoir d'en faire un reproducteur.
Personnages principaux
• Rex Nebular : le personnage principal du jeu, dirigé par le joueur, Rex est un célibataire endurci, capitaine et seul occupant du vaisseau spatial Slippery Pig.
• Colonel Stone : l'employeur de Rex. Son intérêt pour le vase, qu'il est prêt à payer à Rex une forte somme (75 000 « Galactars »), n'est pas expliqué.
• Bud : une grosse créature extra-terrestre, capturée par les habitantes de la planète. Il cherche un moyen de s'enfuir et de se venger.
• Herman Spiltmelk : le dernier homme indigène de la planète où Rex s'écrase vit caché dans les rues désertées d'une grande ville.
• Major Karg : capitaine d'un vaisseau de guerre orbitant autour de la planète.
• Rox : l'alter-ego féminin de Rex, une fois que ce dernier a utilisé le gender bender pour changer de sexe.
• Dr. Slache : une femme-médecin psychopathe qui examine et torture Rex afin de lui soutirer des informations.
Style de jeu
Rex Nebular est un jeu d'aventure classique pour l'époque : le joueur doit trouver des objets plus ou moins cachés dans le décor, les combiner et/ou les utiliser à bon escient et ainsi résoudre des énigmes, consistant pour la plupart à débloquer l'accès à de nouveaux endroits et progresser vers la cachette du vase. Le jeu se distingue cependant par certaines caractéristiques techniques. Ainsi, l'animation des personnages est réalisée en captation de mouvements - les décors, pour leur part, sont des images matricielles dessinées à la main puis numérisées. L'inventaire présente les objets que possède le joueur en 3D : un objet sélectionné tourne sur lui-même. Cette nouveauté est alors rendue possible par l'augmentation rapide de la puissance des ordinateurs personnels (Doom, l'un des premiers jeux à utiliser pleinement la 3D, sort l'année suivante).
L'humour est également l'une des caractéristiques principales du jeu. Il est principalement basé sur le caractère du héros, confronté à des situations burlesques qui mettent à mal son orgueil masculin. Rex devra par exemple utiliser le gender bender pour réussir à s'enfuir, et ainsi faire l'expérience de la féminité. Le ton général du jeu est plutôt mature - certaines situations sont assez grivoises ou sanglantes.
Crédit image : Abandonware France (lien ci-dessus).