Sanitarium

Rating:
Summary: A bizarre, twisted, and wonderful experience.
Review: This is not so much a game as an interactive horror story. It unfolds like a Clive Barker tale except with more humor. If you find chatting with kids with nightmarish deformities and walking on surfaces made of flesh your odd cup of tea, then you are in for a treat. I loved it, and introduced it to many of my friends. I didn't find it scary, but horrific, imaginative, and intriguing, filled with atmosphere through its carefully wrought graphics and sound. Especially atmospheric are the music and sound effects. It is a game like The Longest Journey in which you don't want the journey to end. --Incidently I've recently reinstalled my 4-year-old Sanitarium on Windows XP Pro (with SP1) and it seemed to work fine. The Level 2 bug patch (sanipatch1.exe) is still available on the net.