Comments on: Cryostasis Gallery

By: Valentin Galea

Valentin Galea — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:48:51 +0000

I trust the ruskies with everything except making a decent gun fire and recoil animation!:)

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:01:30 +0000

For all the things Bioshock got wrong, there’s a whole lot of things it got right; it would be difficult to top that, and given what we have been shown so far, I don’t see it happening. Hoping for the best, though.

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:02:21 +0000

This looks creepier and creepier, I like. Definitely looking forward to it.

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:12:43 +0000

@Deuteronomy:

Even if it’s not *technically* better than BioShock, I have the distinct feeling I’m going to *enjoy* it more.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:59:07 +0000

Hopefully it’s going to be better than Bioshock.

By: greenbunny45

greenbunny45 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:22:47 +0000

Reminds me of Bioshock…

By: Erlam

Erlam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:39:49 +0000

I’m intrigued by this game. To parrot myself, I’m hoping for another ‘Stalker’-like round-around-the-edges-but-awesome game.

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:15:24 +0000

Oops ;) That’s what happens when you stay away from the computer for two months…

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:12:26 +0000

Yeah we posted it back here http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/06/10/cryostasis-trailer/

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:05:54 +0000

Thanks Jim! Well, I’m a big fan of Russian FPSs, so I can take a big of dodgy animation or general roughness around the edges… and yeah, the survival aspect is most intriguing, in this one.

Oh, by the way, awesome new trailer for the game here (scroll to the bottom of the page):
Cryostasis trailer

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:01:19 +0000

I think “played the game” is a bit strong. I stumbled through the opening ten minutes at KRI in Moscow. It wasn’t finished by any means, and I don’t think the demo they showed was the *actual* opening ten minutes.

I didn’t see much of the mental echo stuff, but the defrosting environments and general heat-hunting survival stuff is interesting. It gets to the point where even a warm light-bulb can help you avoid freezing to death, which amused me in that ultra-harsh way.

The monster design seemed a bit rough – animations a little clumsy and so on. It was actually hard to tell quite what it’ll be like from that short bit of play.

All in: looks intriguing. I think it’ll be a mediocre FPS with some really interesting alternative elements. There’s an outside chance that the survival and story weirdness might make it masterpiece, but we’ll see.

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:49:50 +0000

There are definitely guns in it, because I’ve fired them. Whether they’ll be a rare commodity however…

So you’ve played the game, Jim? I’m extremely jealous. Would you care to give us a few brief words on what you thought of it?

Looking forward to the game’s release. ‘Vivisector’ (Action Forms’ previous game) was a rather nice and different FPS and Cryostasis looks fantastic.