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What kind of game was it? First-Person Shooter? other? Edit: OP was edited since.
Edited by Medinoc "And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Great, now you made me feel really stupid. :D
It was a Third-Person Shooter with Action-Adventure elements (you had to figure out the levers and I think you even had some rudimentary inventory). It was obviously fantastic and brightly colored but otherwise pretty realistically drawn (no full-on cartoon style).
Edited by KoverasDo you remember how the controller looked? Its a pretty inane question, but I'm hoping it helps remember the console. That sounds like a really nifty game. :)
ETA: Fur Fighters for the Dreamcast could be described as colorful, does have a bridge lowering puzzle early on. Maybe.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/197409-fur-fighters/images/gs_screen-11

I know chances are slim but here goes nothing...
Back in 2000 or 2001, there was a game I played on some kind of console. I don't know which one it was but it must have been then current-gen because it was in a supermarket (they placed consoles with certain games in the games section so kids could play while their parents shopped). The game must have been fairly recent, too. I think it was on a cartridge rather than CD but I am not sure. The game was a Third-Person Shooter with elements of Action-Adventure (I think you had an inventory of some sort).
In the game, you played as some kind of futuristic super-soldier. As the game started, you were dropped in a colorful landscape on an island with a handgun. There was a house nearby which you could explore, I think there were some nondescript blob-like enemies there, too. There was also a car around it somewhere and the hero did some crazy jump-flip in the air to get in and out of it. The island was surrounded by water, which you couldn't swim in, so you had to find a way to lower the bridge (I think there was a lever in the house). Beyond the bridge lurked another, bigger enemy whom I only managed to beat once. I have never been able to get farther than that. :(
Edited by Koveras