Not far into this one, but loving every minute of it so far! You play the role of Adam Randall as he returns to his home village after a strange priest arrives with a package from his recently deceased father...distrusting of the priest, he ignores the package, but starts having dreams about a strange house! So he eventually opens the package, and finds inside fragments of some carved objects...He decides to go a house mentioned by the priest, who had said that his father had discovered something there.....and it turns out to be the very house in Adam's nightmares!
The actual gameplay is a nice mix of first-person-shooter and point-and-click adventures, something which made it stand out at the time, but now makes it feel like the granddaddy of games like Penumbra or Amnesia. It's loads of fun exploring the mansion, with Adam giving voiced descriptions of the things he's examining...and there's puzzles to be solved in order to get deeper in to the house and try to uncover the mysteries inside. These usually involve finding the right key, object or switch...but they do help give a survival-horror-type feel to the game as well..
Various monsters will appear to try and stop you in your tracks too, but a nice variety of guns and magical weapons you can pick up along the way and use in the FPS style the game does very well, will help you dispose of these creatures and keep moving....
The FMV scenes are nicely filmed too, feeling more like a low budget, but not low quality, movie..the actors are all pretty good and it feels a step up from the normal b-movie type fair you usually get in 90s videogames.
All in all, it's a great game that should appeal to FPS fans, point & click fans and survival horror fans! I got my copy from gog.com, which is probably the best place to get it from if you're going to be playing it on modern PCs...I'll now let you have a look at the making of documentary, so you can see the hard work the folks who made it put in making this underrated classic! Watch it and then go buy the game immediately!
No comments:
Post a Comment