This week your intrepid heroes install DOS, search for blood, and lose focus.
Chairquisition:
Game: The Fall
Webzone: http://www.overthemoongames.com/
Devel: Over the Moon Games
Engine: Unity
Price:$/€ 9.99
Wazzat: This week we’re reviewing a game based on Tarsem’s “The Fall”. Its a lovely story about a man trying to kill himself with morphine and the illiterate young foreign girl that saves him from….Wait…That’s not
Wait don’t you mean it’s based on a psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters? One is a serial killer who stalks his victims in and around Belfast and the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent from the MET who is brought in to catch him.
Makes with the working
V-
How do you manage to not capture the gerbil input in 2014?
J-
Crashed on the first run on my AMD box
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Shiny / Sounds
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The graphics / voicework are above average for an indie joint.
J-
Textures are expensive you know!
Audio outright didn’t work for me
P-
Competent voice acting
Using a pitch dark environment helps hide the shortcomings of the Unity engine.
“Hey! Who turned out the lights?” – The game
The one bit of criticism I have is: That flashlight doesn’t illuminate a goddamn thing! For a futuristic, AI controlled, power armor / space suit thingie, the flashlight is pretty weak!
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Control
V-
Again, not capturing the input made the game hella difficult.
For an advanced AI suit thingy it moves like arse. The stopping momentum is mental.
The Xclone gamepad layout is unadulterated nightmare fuel. The hard-coded layout is Pepsi challenge bad.
J-
Controller mappings are seriously wack
On teh Steambox, everything is super twitchy
Someone was on some bad acid when they came up with this control scheme
P-
We made a Unity game and we didn’t know about SDL2 – The game
Playing with the keyboard and mouse sorta works until the cursor goes outside the window and you start clicking on other things.
PS2 Dual shock layout is completely wrong and outright unusable.
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FUN
V-
It’s a 2,5D point&click adventure game …in spaaaaaace!
I kinda got into the story and the graphics / voicework are above average for an indie joint.
Combat is rubbish and some of the FK YOU! That’s why! bugs were introduced by the devels
“I disabled jumping until they enter cover” “the feel of that moment”
J-
Combat is really, really horrible. Especially if you’re playing on an xbox controller
I suppose the plot could be interesting if the gameplay didn’t make me feel like I’m wasting my time
Boo urns
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I really like the atmosphere and the AI’s “moral” dilemma regarding what it must do to keep the pilot alive.
I would very much like to keep playing it and would probably give it 4 chairs if it weren’t for the control issues and the free-roaming cursor (which would be less of an issue if I could use my Dual Shock).
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