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
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How do you manage to not capture the gerbil input in 2014?
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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.
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Textures are expensive you know!
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Audio outright didn’t work for me
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Competent voice acting
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Using a pitch dark environment helps hide the shortcomings of the Unity engine.
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“Hey! Who turned out the lights?” – The game
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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
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Again, not capturing the input made the game hella difficult.
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For an advanced AI suit thingy it moves like arse. The stopping momentum is mental.
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The Xclone gamepad layout is unadulterated nightmare fuel. The hard-coded layout is Pepsi challenge bad.
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Controller mappings are seriously wack
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On teh Steambox, everything is super twitchy
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Someone was on some bad acid when they came up with this control scheme
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We made a Unity game and we didn’t know about SDL2 – The game
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Playing with the keyboard and mouse sorta works until the cursor goes outside the window and you start clicking on other things.
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PS2 Dual shock layout is completely wrong and outright unusable.
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FUN
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It’s a 2,5D point&click adventure game …in spaaaaaace!
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I kinda got into the story and the graphics / voicework are above average for an indie joint.
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Combat is rubbish and some of the FK YOU! That’s why! bugs were introduced by the devels
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“I disabled jumping until they enter cover” “the feel of that moment”
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Combat is really, really horrible. Especially if you’re playing on an xbox controller
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I suppose the plot could be interesting if the gameplay didn’t make me feel like I’m wasting my time
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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.
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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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