A unique gaming experience.
The story revolves on Lea Nichols, a scientist who has been working on a secret project on a tumble-down
ship on a deserted island. The game starts with you seeing her through a security cameras laying unconscious on a bed and she gradually wakes up and asks you to guide her throughout the ship's interior.
You have to help her find her way and gather clues to see what has happened to her and her colleagues.
She finds out that a catastrophe has happened and something or someone has killed everone. The plot may sound similar to many other adventures, but the gameplay is very different from what I have ever played.
You help Lea move by clicking on nearest lights which are indicated with a red circle in the existing map. You have also assess to many cameras which you can turn on to see your environments. You can use up to 3 cameras so you can see your heroin in 3 different angels in 3 different windows. Lea investigates many rooms finding clues or dead bodies of her Collaborators and find assess to their file which gives her clues and codes which helps her find her way. At the early stages of the game, you will find out about a certain colleague, 112 which Lea seems to have a romantic feeling for. You also find out that this Experiments involves some synthetically made creatures called Tyriads.
The story is really interesting, thrilling and involving, sometimes you feel like a detective investigating a series of homicide. The game will rarely gets flat or boring, although the only person you see is Lea, you get to know about all her collaborators and their characters and their stories, which gave the game variety and tilt. Athlough the plot seems to be realistic, later in game you get involved with alien creatures and their fantasy world which gives a pleasant diversity to the otherwise realistic plot. Although Lea spends most of her time seeking through out the ship, the game offers diversity taking her to the places like the ocean bottom in a little submarine, the fantasy land of Tyriades, meeting the alien creatures, so you won't get bored just scouring about the ships interior.
About the puzzles, The Experiment is a real hard game and solving some puzzles can be really frustrating
and need a great deal of concentration and patient. At some point it was not possible for me to go further
without a little help from a Walkthrough.
The level design is really good and gives you the feeling of really being in a wracked down rusty ship,
surrounded by unknown mysteries and death rotten bodies of your colleague. About the character design,
there are very few characters other than the protagonist, although Lea is good rendered, her movements and face expressions don't meet the high quality of the nex gen graphic we see in most current games.
What I didn't like in this game, was the voice acting and the English translation. It was really bad and seemed like the voice actress
was reading it all from a note. Dry and lifeless. The sound and the music were satisfactory though not
overwhelming.
Ultimately, I recommend this game to all adventures gamers and also gamers who would like to experience
something new.