The eYe

Almost 20 years ago there was this....HORRIBLE game with AWESOME music. :D

However, no Queen documentary EVER has touched the subject.
We all know the plot of the game later turned into the WWRY musical and it was an expensive flop. I would have liked at least a little background info on the subject. Maybe a bonus on the DOOL documentary for instance.

You guys have more information?

I found a SUBSCRIPTION BASED website that carried it a while back. But I'm sure even that game could be shared with anybody who has it.

Me, I just have the crappy compendium book: the ART of QUEEN:THE EYE.

I heard it had started out ambitiously but fallen behind the times once it even left the ground. It wasn't exactly buried. It was part of the original Queen -Fip site if I remember correctly. Just never succeeded. I think it only got a UK/CANADIAN release

Most band forays into PC GAMING sucked.

the only ones I'd like are THE EYE, that one DEVO did, And Prince's INTERACTIVE one.

But that's for collection reasons and curiosity. I'm sure they ALL suck. Even ED HUNTER (IRON MAIDEN) SUCKED and it was a shooter

"Most band forays into PC GAMING sucked."

Oh yeah? Ed Hunter? LOL.

Exceptions were arcade games. REVOLUTION X (featuring Aerosmith) was fun.

JOURNEY had a video game (never played it)

I'm surprised Alice Copper and Rob Zombie didn't have a game.

I've got the original The Eye release (and the accompanying book) - never played it as my PC with Windows XP wouldn't 'play the game'! I think it was released in Germany as well as the uk?

I ripped the music off the discs for my iPod though and there's some great remixes and instrumental versions on there!

I played thru the whole game.

It wasn't bad. The visuals were quite stunnning and it was quite a large game. The challenge was that it was a little too difficult to play - too easy to die in a fight. The soundtrack was fantastic. I still have it boxed away somewhere, along with the following...

Then there was Rise of the Robots with music from Brians first album. The sequel to the game was called Ressurection and Brian wrote Cyborg for that one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Robots

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

I've got the original The Eye release (and the accompanying book) - never played it as my PC with Windows XP wouldn't 'play the game'! I think it was released in Germany as well as the uk?
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Yup, and the German release also had an instrumental version of "Party" that wasn't on the other releases

I found the the eye versions on YouTube a while ago, I ended up listening to it for a week

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b] I've got the original The Eye release (and the accompanying book) - never played it as my PC with Windows XP wouldn't 'play the game'! I think it was released in Germany as well as the uk? I ripped the music off the discs for my iPod though and there's some great remixes and instrumental versions on there![/QUOTE] When I ripped my discs with dBpoweramp CD Ripper the tracks start at track 2 and are also labelled wrongly. Each track is labelled for the track prior. On top of that, Khashoggi's Ship is labelled Party on discs 3 and 4. It seems there is more music on the discs that can only be accessed during the game, did anyone manage to record those tracks? http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/songs/queen-the-eye.htm Fight From The Inside Instrumental sounds great, I uploaded it to YouTube.

The music is awesome. Full instrumental versions of tracks like Ride The Wild Wind, Heaven For Everyone, Mother Love, Fight From The Inside, Get Down Make Love etc etc. Shame a lot of them were just 1-2 minute snippets though!

^ Yes indeed, and It's also a shame there are so many errors on the discs too.

I have the german version, and ripped the audio a few years ago with EAC:

http://mega.nz/#F!0YMlxTLK!GloqohJR3vIILpQhDQVDsg

The tracklists (copied somewhere) contains no Party, but as mentioned by http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/songs/queen-the-eye.htm it's track (Titel) 13 on the Arena disk. Track 1 is the game data btw, that's why the audio starts at track 2. I still play the game sometimes using images in dosbox.

[QUOTE] [b]eYe wrote:[/b]
I have the german version, and ripped the audio a few years ago with EAC:
http://mega.nz/#F!0YMlxTLK!GloqohJR3vIILpQhDQVDsg
The tracklists (copied somewhere) contains no Party, but as mentioned by http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/songs/queen-the-eye.htm it's track (Titel) 13 on the Arena disk. Track 1 is the game data btw, that's why the audio starts at track 2. I still play the game sometimes using images in dosbox.[/QUOTE]
Thanks eYe, I guessed the first track is data, but the tracks are still labelled wrongly when ripped.
After checking your rip I am afraid to tell you there is still a glitch with You Don't Fool Me (disc 3 track 9) at exactly the same point at around 3.20
Also Gimme The Prize (disc 5 track 8) at around 1.29 (same error as my rip from my English CD)
Your rip of the last track on CD1 is NOT the complete instrumental version of IWIA (on my rip it is a 4:54 full instrumental)
I will make some further checks comparing the English and German versions.
Well done for persevering with the game by the way, I might give DOSBox a try!

Can someone upload I Want It All from disc 1 (the last track - I don't know the track No. as the data track confuses me a lot) from English/Spanish version?
It seems that I have a different version (sound like mono and has some hiss), but I cant tell what source is that (fake, fan remix or sth.).
Thanks in advance!

[QUOTE] [b]RadekQ wrote:[/b] Can someone upload I Want It All from disc 1 (the last track - I don't know the track No. as the data track confuses me a lot) from English/Spanish version? It seems that I have a different version (sound like mono and has some hiss), but I cant tell what source is that (fake, fan remix or sth.). Thanks in advance![/QUOTE] Sounds the same on the last track of my English disc 1 (IWIA full Instrumental 4:54)