Pure terror!
Con: Corpses are way to scripted and lunky looking
This game is fantastic I loved it. Its hard to do this game justice in words it is deffinatly something truly worth every penny even if it is short. You start out in a locked room trying to find a way to open a grate. This immediatly introduces you to the ingenuity you will need to survive throughout the game.
As the review said everything you need is pretty much right infront of you. The game has a good way of hinting at things without giving it away. Once you figure the puzzle out it is easy to see where the game was leading you and the story is fantastic. It delves into insanity and tries and succedes at making you the player confused and disoriented and at the same time giving you an ambient sound that makes you terrified and having an ever growing feeling of desperation.
The puzzles are a bit of a funny thing in itself. Their very simple and complex at the same time. It starts out primarily as item collecting (no its not a simple little run around and find things) but there are rooms in each area and you need to figure out how to get into each room because an item you need is in each. To one of the problems I myself just simply got frusterated and beat the thing with a rock and that wielded the answer for me. Thats the pure simplistic fun of this game. You dont need to figure out some preposterous puzzle like finding the dats of 20 different historical situations adding them together dividing by eight and then adding 2 to find out a code it is right infront of you, you just gotta figure out how to get it.
To continue on the sound it is what makes the game. You can hear something like the whispers of voices or the moans of the damned. The walls almost sound like their trying to kill you as sometimes you can hear the little patter of small spider feet (I hated those bloody things from overture having a very strong arachnophobia) The other aspect that makes the game truly, truly spectacular is the feeling of insanity. To not give the entire story away it is very hard to go into this. But if you played the first one you will probably start sounding like Red if you dont make it out of the hell hole soon.
The graphics are great. I never had much of a qualm with graphics with any game. The graphics here do a great job of lighting and whatnot a must for the type of game it is. The biggest problem I have with this game is the corpses look so lunky and predetermined. Dont get me wrong the graphics are great and bound to work on just about any machine. The models for the enemies are fantastic and look so strange and alien.
Overall this game is fantastic and something completely different. From the physics engine and needing to open everything like you would in real life to the scary things that come out of nowhere when you think something is finally going to work in your direction. It is fantastic and truly worth a going through and the overture just to know the story.
P.S. Remember Clarence is always watching you : )