Posted on: October 18, 2013
LinustheBold
Verified ownerGames: 889 Reviews: 6
A Happy Surprise
Project Eden was an on-sale impulse buy for me - I had never heard of it before GOG discounted it. The description sounded intriguing, so I figured I'd spring a couple of bucks and try it out. It turns out to be delightful, if this is your kind of thing. It's a crappy shooter (I could have just let the squad handle the enemies without my having to fight their battles for them), but a clever and concise game of mazes and mysteries. Your four-person squad makes its way through cities retrofitted over other cities below, penetrating an abandoned labyrinth of long-disused habitats. At times you'll move your heroes together, and at other times they will need to cooperate to activate distant switches and clear obstacles for their teammates. The story is a fun little dance (with a bit of a sudden silly ending), but the it's the star-power of the lost environs that drives the action at a satisfying pace. The game is certainly limited by the tech and graphics of its day, and I'd love to see a modern take on this sort of thing - you can wander here and there, but you're ultimately on rails. Still, the clever level design (done by the Tomb Raider team) makes it feel like you are discovering the paths, rather than being led down them. It can be tricky keeping the squad together - for a team of elite operatives, they're pretty hopeless at following each other past the occasional obstacle - but the game is wonderful in its way, and I really enjoyed the time spent below.
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