If you can look past the old/sketchy graphics you'll find an interesting and unususal but brilliant game.
User Rating: 8 | Normality PC
I have great memories from playing this game as a kid, the outline of the story is that there is a conspiracy by the government which makes not being "normal" illegal, normal being that you can't be happy, you can't laugh, joke, listen to music or do anything that has the slightest chance of disrupting the dull, dark, monotonus atmosphere of the city. There is a constant smog above the city that is so thick that it obscures the sun entirely, the situation has been going on for so long that any entertainment centres have been out of service for decades, parks and playgrounds for children are fenced off with gates so old they are rusted shut. The sun itself is almost a myth, a story that crazy grandparents ramble on about. There, that is the mood of the game, now the game itself will lead to your character doing all he can to break the monotony of the city, which is ofcourse, against the law. You will carry out many tasks which range from setting off crates of fireworks from a boarded up novelty store to sneaking a music video tape onto a television broadcast. The puzzles are obscure but not impossible, unlike many other puzzle games which get you to solve puzzles regarding the environment or information, NORMALTY will have you interact with people in ways such as persuading a NORM officer to leave his post temporarily to take a much needed respite in the bathroom.
Although the graphics may be enough to make you spew in days with games like DOOM3 and Myst V the environments are still quite interesting, the theme of the game has a lot in common with Half Life 2 except the populace doesn't realise they are being suppressed & therefore do nothing about it (another Conspiracy), if you ever get that urge to play something old school and remember the god old days where developers could be really creative and inventive without worrying about losing a heap of cash then pick up this game if you can.
