Midnight Nowhere

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Summary: Another bizarre import
Review: A very strange little game indeed. It plays out like a survival horror game, except there's no way to die and the only use your character has for a gun is to shoot a locked door. The plot is odd in the extreme and only holds together by the barest thread of coincidence. You play to the end assuming All Will Be Revealed, only to find that the central mystery is not only not answered but not even mentioned. Excuse me?

That aside, game play is fairly smooth and logical, though there's an awful lot of looking for keys. It's a brain game, not a reflex game, so expect to do a lot of problem solving and no shooting. (And hours of pixel-hunting, sigh.) The walls you pass are often decorated with very funny subversive posters that seem to have been designed by a satirical comic screwing around with Photoshop (you know the type -- photos of ordinary people bulged out on one side and so on).

Incidently, you should take the Mature rating fairly seriously. There's a lot of cursing, many many many photos of nude women, and variously horribly slaughtered bodies around every corner. I mean, I've seen worse, but I'm not sure I'd be happy about seeing a 13-year-old playing this game.

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Summary: Da? Nyet!
Review: First of all, this game is NOT scary, no where near that of Silent Hill or any other in that genre. The only thing that makes it anywhere near a horror game is the creepy music. The graphics are done pretty well, a lot of attention to detail was done in this game. Second of all, this game is really short, so short that the walk thru on one web site was about a page long. The only thing that gives it any real length is by some of the 'puzzles' that you have to solve, which most are pretty easy. This game, to add to some confusion, uses lots of red herrings and different code numbers for certain doors, and they also play dirty by sometimes showing you what to do by the icon on some, not on the others. It is a point and click, and as in many of them, don't expect any fights or boss battles, Also the game was designed by Russians, and even though it was translated well for an American audience, there are still a few puzzles that has to be done that only the Ruskies know about, but for most expereinced gamers that shouldn't be much of a problem. All in all, it's an okay game if your bored and have a day to kill, but don't pay the current price, it's not worth it, wait a few weeks until the price drops and then get it.

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Summary: Immersive
Review: First off, if you are not a fan of adventure games
And don't know who gabriel knight or manuel calvera is
then drop a point on the review. But if you love adventure games
and realize how few worth playing come out then give this game
a go. It is far from perfect but it really draws you into the
game. I agree it is not scary and it is far less frustrating then Silent hill.I fell in love with the world buka had created.This is defintley a game that deserved it's mature rating. So much so that fetish magazines and web sites have even reviewed the game.So if you are over 18 and love adventure games you will find this title very worthy of a purchase.

Good but not great.

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Summary: Udder "non sense" LOL
Review: The only good computer games are First Person Shooters (FPS), because they require skill and you can play great internet players.

Buy Survivor: Borneo on DVD instead of this garbage.