Overclocked

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $19.99

Features:

• Experience Overclocked from various perspectives as you play as six different characters throughout the game
• Explore 45 diverse locations with densely animated pre-rendered settings
• Innovative storytelling techniques create a unique gameplay experience
• Meet and interact with a cast of intriguing characters, each with their own distinct personalities
• Characters come to life with fluid movements and realistic facial expressions created with Emotion FX 2 technology

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful!!! [Posted on 2008-04-29]
I'm a huge adventure game fan. I love the games where you get to meet characters, have a mystery to solve and get to use your mind to get to the end of the game, rather then gunplay. What I found different about this game is the character development and backstories. Very well thought out and the characters have depth to them. The plot was a lot of fun and you wanted to see what came next, but like I said the characters are what really drew me into this one! It was like reading a good book you couldn't put down! Highly recommended for any adventure player!

Ok, could have been better [Posted on 2008-06-05]
This game started out with an interesting and mysterious premise as to why several young adults seemingly went crazy and ended up in a sanitarium. But the middle of the game then became bogged down with alot of repetative interviewing of the patients. Part of the puzzle solving was to figure out which recordings to replay on the PDA in order to trigger each patient to have flashbacks. While some may find this process challenging, I found it became repetative and tedious after awhile. The flashbacks themselves were more interesting since they take place in other locations and added some variety to the gameplay. There was also an interesting side story involving the main character's spouse. While the main mystery does get solved, there were some loose ends that did not get explained, and the final cutscene was also vague. It's an ok game to pass the time but I've played much better.

Good game with a few flaws [Posted on 2008-06-08]
This is a straightforward point and click game with an initially interesting premise that kind of gets bogged down and leaves an unsatisfying ending - like many other adventure games.

Gameplay is easy and intuitive for anyone who has played classic point and click games. Graphics are nice, ran smoothly even on a laptop with a 1.4ghz celeron processor and an ATI Radeon Express 200M integrated graphics card. (If you aren't particualrly hardware savvy that means I played it with no problems on a fairly low spec machine)

The central character is very interesting, a psychiatrist who is brilliant with his patients but almost totally dysfunctional when interacting with amyone else. He isn't entirely sympathetic which is unusual for the 'hero'in a game like this but unfortunately you don't get to find out exactly why he is the way he is, just one of the loose ends that were mentioned in another review.

The backstory progresses by means of triggering memories in each of the 5 patients by playing them recordings of what other patients have revealed. This can get pretty tedious once you have built up a store of recordings and sometimes you just have to go through all of them to get a response. The backstory however IS intriguing, right up until you actually solve the final puzzle where the game just kind of fizzles out and leaves you hanging as to what you have actually achieved.

Despite my reservations I actually enjoyed this game which is why it gets 4 stars. The character of Macnamara is one of the best created in recent years and the plot draws you along as it is revealed in tiny increments after each flashback. The missing star is due to the ending and also the fact that there is one point in the game where you cannot progress if you have not performed a very minor action earlier on in the game - dead ends should be a thing of the past in these kind of games.

Really lacking in "game-play" [Posted on 2008-06-08]
I have some really mixed feelings about this game and reviewing it. I can't give it a thumbs up, because frankly it was boring. There was nothing to "play". However, it is a beautiful and has a great storyline.
I finished the game just to finish the "story". Because that is all there is...a story. You go from one cut scene to another over and over and over. The gameplay is only in triggering the next cutscene.
I also had some problems with lock ups. Apparently my laptop and this game just didn't like each other.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz [Posted on 2008-06-21]
First thing first. i did not finish the game, not a great sign.the game was actually very interesting and had good graphics, the controls were easy, the puzzles were fun....except....the dreaded voice recordings. The straw that broke the camels back. I must say i love a good story, but the back and forth with voice recordings was not fun at all..it bored me into wanting to play something else.Everything else was fine and fun, but once again..it only takes 1 bad thing in an adventure game to tick you off.

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