The spindly polygon characters are far from attractive, and combat resembles little more than a fight between a couple of marionettes the backdrops, while refreshing at first, don't take long to get annoying.

That isn't to say the game looks particularly pretty. With the dark, pre-rendered backdrops, every one of which could have been taken from the video for Queen's 'Innuendo' video, there's no doubting that Queen: The Eye doesn't look like anything else. You have to interact with these odd characters in a variety of ways while solving the usual 'use the brown key on the brown door'-type puzzles. The surreal world of The Eye is populated by numerous strange characters, most of them with a circus or Far Eastern feel to them. However, what begins as a simple 3D beat 'em up becomes more adventure-y once you escape the confines of the maze. The game begins proper with you fighting for your life within the deadly maze of a Running Man-style gameshow. And, of course, just to distance things further from the music and lyrics of Queen, it' set in a dark, decaying future where the economic collapse of society has left the world controlled by an insane, self-replicating bio-organic computer called The Eye.īecause it's the sort of thing that always happens in games, you control a lone rebel out to bring down The Eye and restore some semblance of normality to a world driven mad by constant replays of 'Hammer To Fall' and 'It's A Kind Of Magic' over the omnipresent public address system.

Curiously, rather than being a game featuring Bicycle Races, Fat-Bottomed Girls, and clog-wearing ponces with giant haircuts, it's an Ecstatica/Resident Evil-style polygon beat 'em up-cum-puzzle-type game.

Queen: The Eye has allegedly been inspired by the work of Queen, and features music tracks taken from all eras of the band's career.

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