When did Rez come out?

Rez was released on 22 November 2001 for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2.

Rez (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rez

A rail shooter with a heavy emphasis on audiovisual elements in which a hacker attempts to breach an AI integral for the continuation of the human race to prevent it from shutting down due to information…

88 22 November 2001

What Rez is

Rez is a music game developed by United Game Artists and released in 2001. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. It runs on Unreal.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The world of Rez is set in the near future on a massively overpopulated Earth with society crippled by crime rates, and on the verge of meltdown. In an attempt to resolve the chaos, a new global network was created: Project-K, overseen by a self-aware artificial intelligence named Eden. However, the increasing information flow and infection by a virus (the main character) confused Eden, allowing her to begin questioning the meaning of its existence and the consequences of her actions. Trying to fathom the paradoxes that surrounded her and realizing the power she possessed, she shut herself down. The player character and protagonist is a hacker virus unofficially named Swayzak, traversing…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rez holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rez launched on 22 November 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer