Review: Penumbra Overture

As my first review, I have chosen Penumbra Overture.

The first thing I will say is that this game is SCARY. Compared to Penumbra, Silent Hill is as scary as Peggle.

The atmosphere in this game is just amazing. It really gives you the feeling of loneliness and abandonment. It creates that “tense” kind of scary that I personally love in my horror games, the kind where you are always on your toes and anticipating something, as opposed to the “things just jump out and surprise you” scary. You’ll be hiding from enemies ensuring that they do not get close enough to you to see you. You will need to do such things as blocking doors with heavy objects in order to prevent anyone, or anything, from following you.

This brings me to another thing that I love about this game, the physics. Imagine a simplified source engine, with much more emphasis on weight and density. You can break wood that is blocking a doorway with your hammer in order to get past, and you will be lifting and throwing many things like rocks out of your way to uncover things, after all you are in an abandoned mine.

You will be scanning your surroundings for supplies like batteries for your flashlight, painkillers for health, flares, and other useful items. Many items are scarce and hidden in file cabinets, drawers, and under rock piles. You will also find notes scattered around that will give you hints as to the disturbing past of the mine that you are trapped in.

Overall, Penumbra Overture is an amazing game, the atmosphere is amazing, the controls are solid, the setting and plot are both disturbing, and the overall design is fantastic. For the great price of a penny(or more) while the Humble Indie Bundle lasts, it is extremely worth the price.

I strongly recommend Penumbra to any horror game fan. Buy it.

Now.

Next Review

Yup, I have no idea what to do right now, It doesn't have to be a review, It could be a pre-view of a game like Red Dead: Redemption, so just leave some comments On what you would want me to do, then I will try and do them all.

New Review On The Way

Expect a new review of a much less cheerful game than World of Goo.

I will be reviewing Penumbra Overture soon.

World of Goo

Now then, My second review, and tonight it is on World of Goo, the basics of this game is to get the minimum amount of goo balls into the suction pump, how you do this?

you make the goo balls into a tower, or blocks, or make them float, there is a lot you can do in this game, yet its so simple, but it is a great game, the different styles and the comedic value of this add up to a very good game, I have not played much of this yet, and it is a bit tricky, but you will soon find a way to clear that level that you have been stuck on for 30 minutes.

Now If you act fast, you can get this and 4 other game for 1 penny at http://www.wolfire.com/humble But really, you should give them about £10 atleast, as This is a very good pack, we have reviews coming on two of the other games in this pack so stay tuned.

But for now, go get dirty with world of goo.

This has been the Second Modern Warfare 2 free weekend on steam, but this one I WILL try out.
I'm downloading as we speak. We have a few Reviews coming up soon.
Sam and Max Season 3,
The Humble Indie Pack, and much more.
I'm still trying to finish SoulSilver, I'm up to Kanto, and I'm waiting to beat the Kanto gym leaders then review it.
The next review is Beat Hazard, by our new publisher, Reece.
Stay Tuned.

Beat hazard.

Well, my first review for this blog, and what can I say, I've started with, in my eyes a winner, This game is a great indie shooter game, Imagine space invaders, but while listening to any song that you like.

You play as a space ship, simple enough, bigger beats, the better weapon you have, but also the harder the enemies are, about 4-10 times in a song, you get a ''boss'' they normally spew out bombs and laser sights, but If you pay attention, and dodge them, you will be taking them down in no time.

the first song that you complete 100%( mine was ''the divide'' by Linkin Park.) is a special one, and you immediately feel bad ass.

So my conclusion, Its £7, go mow some lawns, get some money and buy it, I'm positive that you will enjoy it.


Next review from me will be World Of Goo so stay tuned.

New review soon.

Yup, new review soon, keep a look out.