Critical Reaction
Reaction to the game by the gaming press was lukewarm. The highest praise for the game came from PC Zone, in a review by Charlie Brooker. Brooker praised the game's variety of well-designed character models, and its advanced animation system, stating that the game had "impressive character models that move in all kinds of unpleasantly believable ways". The game achieved a "recommended" award and was given 89% by the publication.
IGN claimed that the level design was boring and uninspired, and although the game had a competent single player experience, multiplayer was lacking. It gave the game 6.7/10, a "passable" rating. GameSpot commends the game's innovative angelic powers available for use, comparing them favourably with the force powers in Jedi Knight. However, it states that although the game has several attractive features, in the end, it was just a typical shoot 'em up with no groundbreaking elements, awarding the game a rating of 7.3/10.
All the publications agreed that Requiem was not as good as the universally acclaimed Half-Life, released 6 months prior. The game also lacked prerelease hype, especially in comparison to its contemporary, Xatrix's Kingpin: Life of Crime. Released at a similar time to Requiem, Kingpin had generated a lot of hype within the gaming world, and had also amassed some media controversy over its graphic depiction of violence and swearing. The lukewarm reception, coupled with the lack of prerelease hype in comparison to the competition, meant that Requiem never saw commercial success. It would be the last game that Cyclone Studios would ever release before 3DO's demise.
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