Graphics are simplistic, animations stiff, and controls feel unwieldy. Poorly voice acted, though to admittedly humorous degrees, Afterfall‘s plot really does feel like that of a straight-to-video horror flick, with production values to boot. Before long, spooky things start happening and all hell breaks loose, as denizens of the shelter turn into mutated, enraged monsters. Borrowing heavily from Dead Space, Fallout, and Silent Hill, the story centers on one of humanity’s few remaining survivors in the wake of a nuclear attack, eking out his existence as a psychologist in a claustrophobic, heavily governed shelter. To say Afterfall: InSanity owes a debt to several of its interactive peers is to put it in the most diplomatic way possible. Rig: Intel i7-2600k GHz, with 8GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 580 GPU (SLI) It is, indeed, the Hardware of videogames.Īfterfall: InSanity Extended Edition (PC) Then it all goes wrong, and never gets better.

It’s certainly unique, and even does manage to be enjoyable for a considerable portion of the adventure.

Having played the Extended Edition thanks to Steam Greenlight, I can report it was not the buried treasure I’d hoped for, though it had every opportunity to escape its restrictions and be something uniquely enjoyable. The promise of treasure hidden under the dirt is hard to resist. A game like Afterfall: InSanity seems right up my alley. To that end, I’ve lived through such atrocities as I Am Omega, and once really tried to like Hardware. I’ll suffer through many things if the promise of a post-apocalyptic horror is on the cards. Dead Space meets Fallout meets Silent Hill meets being awful

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