Nirvana X-Rom, Gabriele Salvatores' [It] Bruno Tognolini, CD-ITALY 1996

This game is based off an Italian movie of the same name. It's a sci-fi adventure mixture between Tron (sort of..) and Johnny Mnemonic. The film tells the story of a virtual-reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who finds out that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multiple deaths) to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to erase the game from his employer's server before it's commercially released, and thus spare Solo further suffering. Jimi feels desperate because his wife Lisa (Emmanuelle Seigner) left him. He starts to search for her as he tries to delete Solo from the game. These two paths of his life complement in the story throughout the whole film. By the end, Jimi hacks into one of the company's servers. This hack is in the world of virtual reality interpreted as encounters with persons from Jimi's life. That is the way the network defends itself. It tries to keep the hacker's mind in the loop of his own memories as it burns the hacker's brain. The only way to pass through the network defence mechanism is to free one's mind. To forget about life before or after; to forget about bodily feelings; to enter a state of pure concentration, where one focuses only on the target (in this case the server with the company's money account). It is similar to meditation where one tries to concentrate on breathing. People who are able to do this are called angels (they are invisible to the system, they can go anywhere they want and their possibilities are limitless). In the end Jimi feels enlightened. He is in inner peace with himself. He saved the character, understood why Lisa left and understands why the things happened in the way they happened. He is in the state of Nirvana. The game has 50 FMV movies with some footage taken from the film (with many unpublished) and other originals, shot ad hoc. There's also 40 scenes in QuickTime VR, taken from photographs on the film set, or modeled in 3D. It has 400 images from the shoot of the film, from the set, from backstage and from other sources, plus 50 animations created in 3D/2D graphics. Texts include the script integral of the film, and music songs from the soundtrack of the film and original music for the CD.
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Italian 2CD ISO Demo 770MB (uploaded by scaryfun)
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