I nearly included “but no mention of Oni” in my last post about Marathon. Lo and behold, there’s a history of Oni as well.
Oni was a great game: amazing physics and combat, with a solid story. The promo shots (which never materialized into an actual game) as well as the Oni 2 scenes are fascinating. While some of the background textures in the levels always looked stark, the game still looks great in these videos.
Most interesting is that the console version was a bomb. It was a great Mac game, but it never took hold on the nascent Xbox… whereas Halo, well… That’s a different story.
I played a lot of Oni on the Mac. These people seem to like it, too.