I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

This is a fantastic science fiction 'what if', however the execution is pretty bad. I love the story and the concepts, but getting to the end is a painful repetitive bore. Be prepared to listen to the same canned dialog over and over as you work through this using trial and error. You have to complete 5 individual story lines, but each one has multiple places where the key dialog branch will not display because you did not interact with everything on the screen in the right order. Example: the Anubis character will not give you a needed dialog option unless you looked at and tried to use the sarcophagus just prior to that. Even the official strategy guide leaves out these gems which you will only find by repeating each section until you stumble on the required permutation. My aversion to repetition of the same dialogs over and over, got the best of me and I could not finish this. It was taking more time than I wanted to put into it. If you like that kind of thing you might like this, but it was a disappointment for me. Again, it is a great story, the graphics and game play are serviceable, but, you have been warned about the need to complete seemingly trivial unrelated tasks (you forgot to look at that poster on the wall!) in the right order, or you will not be able to progress.

While what the storry has to tell you is compelling, i really had a hard time with how you had to play it. Sometimes interactive objects are quite easy to overlook and not distinguishable from the background, but even worse at some parts you have to redo certain actions after you did some completly unrelated actions to get further or items just appear where you have previously searched, only because you talked to someone. In the end i had to look up at least 3 situations after searching fruitlessly for about an hour of what could be possible. Plus the supposed 'hints' from the book in your inventory almost never helped me in any way, even in retrospective i could not always conect the clue with what i had to do.

As my title says, about the game the only flaw I can say it is that there's a hidden morality system that you are never informed about and because it is an older game some of the items are too pixelated to be noticed right away. You'll be devoured by the story, it is incredible and horrible dark and you'll love every bit of it. My favorite game along with Bulletstorm, I recommend both.

A mix of body, ethical and psychological horror as you play as 5 different characters each being tormented by a sentient computer at the end of the world. Graphically it still looks pretty good considering its age and the full voice acting and animation is impressive for its age. The music is annoying and overbearing, which I guess is the point as it makes you feel uncomfortable, and the world is bizarre yet recognisable enough to be relevant with its stories of ethical dilemmas and redemption. The story is good, but the puzzles are poor as they are very unclear and it’s far too easy to make a mistake and be locked out of completing a chapter, forcing you to restart and use a walkthrough. As it’s not a long game this isn’t too much of an issue, but is off-putting, especially in the final act where you have to follow a nonsensical sequence precisely otherwise you will fail to get a good ending.

Just a short review about the grip of the game. I think the reason it has gripped at least me so completely has something to do with its lack of humour. Or how to say? The lack of relief for the characters. Its so vastly different from a lot of point'n'clickkers (Not that there is anything wrong with those either) and when I go through the game world, everything is so desolate. And I start to feel like "Wow, what an atmosphere, what a complete game world." And it seems so amazing.