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One of the many early/mid-90s music-based Myst-like point-and-click pseudo-adventures. Wander around the Voodoo Lounge, meet the Rolling Stones (and others) in mysterious circumstances, find and solve mysteries, and more. Contains tons of RS footage, several full-length songs, and lots of hidden surprises for RS fans. You navigate through rooms in a swankily designed fantasy mansion, clicking around to discover hidden concert footage, interviews, and mixing boards that let you control which song plays in which room. Voodoo Lounge indicates only how superficial the Stones have become. The rooms are full of glam types, few of whom do anything when clicked on. When you stumble on an audio or video interview with Keith or Mick, it's either unintelligible or trite. You can find lyrics in the bathrooms, but don't expect to hear music while you read them. Oh, and you'd better like the tepid songs from 1994's Voodoo Lounge album, because there's no other Stones music here. However, just when you've written this disc off as a prime example of new-media cluelessness, you may find yourself in the mansion's VIP room. The walls are covered with photos and information about blues, country, and R&B greats, and there's a screen showing rare footage of the artists whose music the Stones used as building blocks throughout their career. Here at last, in a grainy black-and-white clip of Howlin' Wolf snarling through ''Dust My Broom,'' is the sense of genuine danger the Stones once manufactured on their own. Too bad you have to endure a lounge act to get there. |
