Martian Gothic : Unification (PS1) :
According to Creative Reality's space-based survival horror, we should be have done a lot more than just send a robot rover to Mars by now.....by their timescale we should already have set up a manned base and started doing tests on various fossils and rocks we've discovered...
Taking place in 2019, ten months after a strange message saying "Stay alone, Stay alive" was broadcast from base Vita 1, the game has us take control of three different main characters...Kenzo Uji, Martin Karne and Diane Matlock. Following orders, they each enter the base at separate airlocks, and we switch control between the three....
It soon becomes apparent that things have gone a bit pear-shaped in the base, with dead bodies lying around all over the place....bodies which soon start levitating and coming to life, setting the scene for yet-another zombie-filled, puzzle-heavy survival game....
And it does a fairly decent job I suppose! Because of a virus given to our three heroes when they enter the base, if they meet up they'll merge into one big gloopy mess of a beast and suddenly develop a taste for human flesh or something...so it's wise to try and keep them apart! You can use Vac-Tubes to exchange items between the trio, something that's required due to the placement of some items. It's all very Resident Evil... right down to the controls and camera angles...but the item-swapping and setting help it feel a little different....
Unfortunately, this is another recommendation I've only recently been able to track down though, so I'm still not that far into it. As I say, so far it seems okay if fairly standard survival horror type-stuff. Oh, and despite what some reviews I remember reading say...the voice acting in this is pretty shocking! Especially Kenzo! But it's almost so bad it's good....almost....
Another thing of note is just how gruesome and gory this game is.. a fact that seems to have been forgotten by one of it's voice actors, a certain Julie Peasgood, who later appeared on UK television spewing nonsense into the ears of real life zombies who worship an evil cult-master named Titchmarsh....Check out this video below!!
Poor Tim! Amazing how much Julie hates games when she doesn't seem to mind taking a pay cheque for voicing them, eh? Anyway, as I said the game is a pretty standard survival horror, that's okay but nothing special... so give it a go if you like such things.... and the above video hasn't made you reconsider playing such obvious hatred-and-violence-filled filth, of course! 'Proven fact!' Hehe... ;-)
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