You don't want the bunker's light bulbs to go out. It has replaced the insanity meter feature from Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I mentioned on an earlier occasion that there is a generator. It happens painlessly without intrusive user interfaces, warning lights, texts and arrows. You turn on your lamp, it illuminates the environment so you can see, the monster happens to be close, hears the sound and starts chasing you. It is also a master of interactions between you, environment and objects. The studio is great at creating interactions with the world and its objects. You need to open the barrel of the revolver with one button and reload cartridges in the different chambers with another. The idea is that even the items require some work from you. You will quickly learn that you are not alone, so you grab a revolver and a loud bad light you start like an old boat engine. The first staggered steps out of a sickbed to wander the corridors of the bunker and find your starting items is evocative. They're not perfect and the war sequences feel a bit low-budget, but when the hand-holding section is over and the game really hands over the reins to you, the experience finds its niche. The intro and prologue offer good framing and presentation. It's your problem to survive the developers will not help you. After that, you're pretty much on your own. It is clearly visible that I'm in an abandoned bunker complex along the trenches. When I get out of the infirmary, I begin to understand the extent of my problems. When I wake up in the game, alone, near death, my first thought is to try to get a handle on where I am. Therefore, it is a bit of a shame that the genre as such, both film and game, does not use World War I as its backdrop very often. I personally think the trenches are well suited for psychological horror, thrillers and the like. It is very noticeable in the horror genre. Our interactive media has an ability to put us in the shoes of the person we control. Even though you're alone here rather than in a group like the movies often show, I felt the same fear, desperation and stress that a group of characters would do. I wouldn't be surprised if Frictional Games was inspired by low budget horrors on the same theme as Trench 11, Bunker and the underrated Deathwatch. There is no mistaking that we are on the Western Front somewhere. Although the nations seem fictional, the uniforms are distinctly French and German. Alien Isolation seems from what I've played to have been a clear inspiration for Amnesia: The Bunker.Īs the name suggests, this horror gem takes place during the First World War. The fact that it also learned from your actions gave the genre a big step forward as a whole.
The xenomorph chasing you through the ship and reacting to you was awesome. It built on already established concepts and managed to captivate me with its incredibly accurately-rendered interpretation of the franchise. Alien Isolation stands as one of my all-time favourites. There are tons of interesting design ideas for horror games.
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