Alone in the Toss, more like!
I'm in the middle of a full-on Lovecraft fad at the moment, triggered by watching Sapphire and Steel last week. I've bought a copy of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for the X-Box which I'm looking forward to tucking into. Whilst I'm waiting for that to arrive, however, I noticed that our office library has a copy of Alone in the Dark 4: The New Nightmare for the PS2 from 2001. I rubbed my hands with glee and borrowed it forth with.
I brought it back this morning.
I got all geared up. Waited until Elin had gone to bed to play it, turned out all the lights in the hopes of creating a decent spooky atmosphere and started it off.
It's not a bad looking game and it looked like it would have been quite interesting and spooky to play, but after ten minutes I wasn't so much creeped out as just totally frustrated with the control system which is akin to shouting instructions at a blind person: Left. Left. Left. LEFT! (sigh) Right. left. right. LEFT! Add to this that the forward button was twitchy and you had to be aligned exactly to use essential things like light switches whilst all the while these plant things are biting chunks out of you. I'm also not a fan of the Resident Evil (whose band wagon this was clearly jumping on) fixed camera perspective.
I just went to bed angry.
Not to worry Call of Cthulhu should show up today. My only real concern with that is that it might be too much of a shooter.
In other news, Cubicle 7 have announced the Doctor WHO pen and paper RPG for October.
Should be interesting. As long as it rewards you for non-violent, intelligent problem solving and roleplaying rather than just for killing things.
Wayne
I brought it back this morning.
I got all geared up. Waited until Elin had gone to bed to play it, turned out all the lights in the hopes of creating a decent spooky atmosphere and started it off.
It's not a bad looking game and it looked like it would have been quite interesting and spooky to play, but after ten minutes I wasn't so much creeped out as just totally frustrated with the control system which is akin to shouting instructions at a blind person: Left. Left. Left. LEFT! (sigh) Right. left. right. LEFT! Add to this that the forward button was twitchy and you had to be aligned exactly to use essential things like light switches whilst all the while these plant things are biting chunks out of you. I'm also not a fan of the Resident Evil (whose band wagon this was clearly jumping on) fixed camera perspective.
I just went to bed angry.
Not to worry Call of Cthulhu should show up today. My only real concern with that is that it might be too much of a shooter.
In other news, Cubicle 7 have announced the Doctor WHO pen and paper RPG for October.
Should be interesting. As long as it rewards you for non-violent, intelligent problem solving and roleplaying rather than just for killing things.
Wayne