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 Ecstatical 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. If Suggs and The Nutty Boys can do games, there's absolutely no reason why late, "great" stadium rock legends Queen can't.
In the interim, the likes of Madness, Peter Gabriel and Iron Maiden have all danced naked and stoned in the crop circle of interactive entertainment. The Worlds Of Music And Computer games have been inexorably linked since, well, since that Frankie Goes To Hollywood game came out on the ZX Spectrum 15-odd years ago.
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