OUTLAST (UPCOMING GAME)
Even though this game isn't out yet, it looks amazing. Outlast is made by Red Barrels and this game will definitely be the rebirth of the horror genre. I watched the extended announce trailer and was so sucked in that it made me jump from some of the scare tactics. Random shapes moving, shadows of bodies moving across the room, and that evil freaking creature are just enough to freak you the f**k out!
From what I've gathered from sources on the interwebs, this is the unfortunate tale of the worlds most densely stupid writer. For the sake of this preview his name shall be Ricky Retardo. So, Ricky finds out about this
asylum which was wrote about in a few newspapers for strange happenings. Ya know, killing, torturing and random acts of devilish evil. Thinking like a normal idiotic main character of a horror movie, he follows the normal formula and says to himself, "Gee that place sounds swell, i think ima go and have a tea party in the creepiest room i can find." Mr. Ricky decides to be so daring, he doesn't bring anything but a night vision camera and enters the asylum. Did he bring friends? No. Did he bring weapons? No. Did he bring some fresh underwear? HE DAMN WELL SHOULD HAVE! Although there's probably a uncomfortable mini game where you steal a dead guy's tidy whiteys.
During the teasers, you get into the asylum and walk down a hallway. The first ten freaking seconds, he turns and sees a shadowy body run down a distant hallway. You enter a nearby pitch black room turn on your night vision and hear a noise, guess who's back? That same silhouette pounding on a
door right in front of you with glowing eyes. Already starting with the scares, means that this game will most likely be a non-stop horror factory. You can't
even walk past dead looking bodies without their glowing eyes just showing up. In the video there's a body that endured a Jesus style crucifixion. With a few distinct details, the lower half of his body is in another room with a trail of blood behind it. The body can still move and my heart dropped as it stared at the screen with it piercing eyes. After that point i hope you went to the bathroom because what happened next almost made me pee my pants. The same shadowy figure that's been stalking you jumps on your back and tries to slash your face off. Armed with all your skills and well.....running, the character sprints down hallways, past severed limbs, overturned wheel chairs and pools of blood as fast as he freaking can. Jumping into a nearby room, the light flickers on and off. He jumps under a filthy bed and cowers like anybody scared for their soul would do. Lying there you see the creature run past the doorway a few times, then all the lights go out. Just when you think the coast is clear, you turn on your night vision, look around a little, ooooo a chair, then you look right and OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!! IMA EAT YOUR FACE!!!!!! I literally jumped at this part because it was so sudden and so fast. Creepy shit.
The graphics look beautiful, and the setting is what you'd expect, creepy castle style asylum on the edge of some undisclosed cliffs and mountains and such. The creators of the game are a lot of ex Ubisoft developers and they did a sadistically great job of setting the tone. The halls are reminiscent of what the asylum used to look like before the devil used it as his private bathroom. Some of the rooms are at least 80% intact and only have a few dead bodies in them. I swear this place has a lifetime supply of electricity just because nearly every room had a light on and that wouldn't be cheap at all. "Hello Mr. Ieatbabies, your electric bill is 4.2 million dollars for the haunted house, i mean asylum." All in all this game looks disturbing and terrifying, i most likely wont be playing it just because im not too much of a horror person. Fans of Slender and Amnesia will absolutely love this game though.
My Rating: Some new undies, and some sleepless nights.
The game comes out some time in 2013 on Steam and according to the developers, other consoles and gaming devices are soon to follow.
--Scott--
From what I've gathered from sources on the interwebs, this is the unfortunate tale of the worlds most densely stupid writer. For the sake of this preview his name shall be Ricky Retardo. So, Ricky finds out about this
asylum which was wrote about in a few newspapers for strange happenings. Ya know, killing, torturing and random acts of devilish evil. Thinking like a normal idiotic main character of a horror movie, he follows the normal formula and says to himself, "Gee that place sounds swell, i think ima go and have a tea party in the creepiest room i can find." Mr. Ricky decides to be so daring, he doesn't bring anything but a night vision camera and enters the asylum. Did he bring friends? No. Did he bring weapons? No. Did he bring some fresh underwear? HE DAMN WELL SHOULD HAVE! Although there's probably a uncomfortable mini game where you steal a dead guy's tidy whiteys.
During the teasers, you get into the asylum and walk down a hallway. The first ten freaking seconds, he turns and sees a shadowy body run down a distant hallway. You enter a nearby pitch black room turn on your night vision and hear a noise, guess who's back? That same silhouette pounding on a
door right in front of you with glowing eyes. Already starting with the scares, means that this game will most likely be a non-stop horror factory. You can't
even walk past dead looking bodies without their glowing eyes just showing up. In the video there's a body that endured a Jesus style crucifixion. With a few distinct details, the lower half of his body is in another room with a trail of blood behind it. The body can still move and my heart dropped as it stared at the screen with it piercing eyes. After that point i hope you went to the bathroom because what happened next almost made me pee my pants. The same shadowy figure that's been stalking you jumps on your back and tries to slash your face off. Armed with all your skills and well.....running, the character sprints down hallways, past severed limbs, overturned wheel chairs and pools of blood as fast as he freaking can. Jumping into a nearby room, the light flickers on and off. He jumps under a filthy bed and cowers like anybody scared for their soul would do. Lying there you see the creature run past the doorway a few times, then all the lights go out. Just when you think the coast is clear, you turn on your night vision, look around a little, ooooo a chair, then you look right and OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!! IMA EAT YOUR FACE!!!!!! I literally jumped at this part because it was so sudden and so fast. Creepy shit.
The graphics look beautiful, and the setting is what you'd expect, creepy castle style asylum on the edge of some undisclosed cliffs and mountains and such. The creators of the game are a lot of ex Ubisoft developers and they did a sadistically great job of setting the tone. The halls are reminiscent of what the asylum used to look like before the devil used it as his private bathroom. Some of the rooms are at least 80% intact and only have a few dead bodies in them. I swear this place has a lifetime supply of electricity just because nearly every room had a light on and that wouldn't be cheap at all. "Hello Mr. Ieatbabies, your electric bill is 4.2 million dollars for the haunted house, i mean asylum." All in all this game looks disturbing and terrifying, i most likely wont be playing it just because im not too much of a horror person. Fans of Slender and Amnesia will absolutely love this game though.
My Rating: Some new undies, and some sleepless nights.
The game comes out some time in 2013 on Steam and according to the developers, other consoles and gaming devices are soon to follow.
--Scott--