By John Walker on May 6th, 2008.
The demo for House of Tales’ Overclocked: A History Of Violence is out. For those horribly ill-informed about it, Alec wrote a splendid preview here.
The tale of psychiatrist David McNamara, and his efforts to figure out what’s gone wrong in the brains of five young patients, is from the people who made The Moment Of Silence, both point and click adventures. More details and the trailer below.
By Alec Meer on March 28th, 2008.
I had a wee play with an early build of the English version of pointer-clickerer Overclocked yesterday. It’s from House of Tales, the German studio behind The Moment of Silence – a future-dystopia adventure game best known in Blighty for sponsoring Battlestar Galactica on Sky One, and in America for scoring 14% in PC Gamer US (our own John ‘the UK’s leading bunny-drawing adventure game critic’ Walker proffered a more forgiving 48% for The Real PC Gamer). Hopefully, though, they’re strong-like-ox for this’un.
Overclocked dials back MOS’ scattergun sci-fi in favour of modern-day psychological horror. Immediate touchstones are Max Payne – we’re in a gloomy, rain-slicked New York, in which everyone is preternaturally grumpy – and Fahrenheit/The Indigo Prophecy (or at least its first few hours) – this is a tale of murder and conspiracy, featuring an unhappy, guilt-ridden protagonist.
Your role is this dark melodrama is to play a troubled psychiatrist, previously thrown out of the military under mysteeeeeeeeerious circumstances, called in to establish why five near-catatonic yoof showed up half-naked and gun-wielding on the city streets. Read the rest of this entry »
