The Experiment is released in the US today, having come out in French late last year. And I’m rather excited about it. Developers, Lexis Numérique, have just started shipping copies of their new game (called Experience 112 in Europe), to US stores, and there’s a demo available (at 43.4 Peggles). But first, an anecdote.
Every now and then, this job affords you an opportunity to do something nice. Too often we games critics are responsible for letting people know the game they were looking forward to, or worse, pre-ordered, is going to be a pile of stinky poo. But occasionally, it works the other way around. One of my favourite examples was In Memoriam. A French adventure game published by Ubisoft, who were too ashamed to send out review copies. PC Gamer’s Ross Atherton had to walk to the shops and buy it himself, and it was given to me to review in half a page, because, well, they gave me all the crappy French adventures.
