A room with a missing lever and sliding shelves is a near-perfect copy of a chamber that puzzled Leon S.
That experience really comes in handy, too, as some situations here precisely mimic those found in earlier Capcom games. You can reach the ending in six or seven hours, depending on your survival-horror experience. Gameplay is structured around scrounging through rooms for items that can be combined into tools and weapons, collecting keys, pushing bookshelves, and saving progress with collectible CDs (space-age technology compared to Resident Evil's typewriter ribbons). Lovecraft's nightmarish creations and mutated human zombies replacing the movie's aliens.Īt any rate, these creatures smash through walls and doors just like similar beasties did way back when. The story, however, is more of a ripoff of Robert Rodriguez's 1998 high-school horror flick, The Faculty, with tentacled monstrosities reminiscent of H.P. Hydravision has designed Obscure as a veritable reproduction of the Resident Evil series, including a "greatest hits" package of story, atmosphere, and even architecture (hmm, we've seen that double-staircase foyer before). The only addition to the mix is the Leafdale High School setting and a cast of five teen protagonists who are grungy versions of the kids from The OC.
If you've ever played a survival-horror game, you've seen all of this stuff before. Unlike Doom 3, here's a game that knows what to do with duct tape and a gun. While this textbook copy of the Capcom classic is a competent regurgitation of the genre's clichés, your patience will be tested by déjà vu from the moment that the first monster bursts out of the walls. Judging by Obscure, a survival-horror throwback best described as Resident Evil in a high school, French developer Hydravision is stuck in 1996. Some people, however, aren't getting the hint that gaming has moved on. This groundbreaking release set a new standard in action-horror, mirroring the accomplishment registered by its classic predecessor nine years ago. The developer ditched the franchise's tired survival-horror conventions, said goodbye to Raccoon City, and wound up with one of the best games so far this year in Resident Evil 4.
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While the Resident Evil series might have overstayed its welcome, you can give Capcom credit for finally realizing that enough was enough.
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