It even uses B-movie tools such as dreams and hallucinations so you can revisit areas twice to make the game seem longer. Want to get out of the dream? Not until you've shot all the monsters. Want to go to the forest? Not until you've had the dream. Everything has to be done in a certain order because it simply won't let you do anything else. It doesn't take long, though, before you realise the game's actually very linear. For half-an-hour, it seems like you've got the freedom to go where you like, talk to who you want and generally just play and get involved. This is by far the best part of the game. You book your room in Burkitsville, and after a few hints by the innkeeper you get to explore the town.
Good for cleaning teeth, you know.' I'd have punched them in the throat before they got around to 'Now you'll need an extra pair of shoes in case the ones you've got run out'.įortunately the training is soon behind you and you can get on with playing the game proper. Now if someone stood over my shoulder while I was packing and made comments like 'Ah, toothbrush, very handy. There's a comment by an in-game character watching you stuff your suitcase on every single item you pack. Another instance is when packing for the mission in Burkitsville. This leads to a disjointed mess where you follow the on-screen instructions of your commander but he keeps making comments like "When you aimed up or down, did it seem too fast or too slow?" It makes everything you do seems totally unnatural and out of place.
But in Blair Witch, Terminal Reality has tried to make it seem like you're just playing the game. In most tutorials, there is little pretence made that it is a tutorial you're playing and not really part of the game. In-game training modes are thankfully common these days, but the one in Blair Witch is just plain weird. Confused? I had to watch it through three times before I had even a rough idea of what was going on. What you think is the intro - the main character seemingly about to be executed - is the training room and you're not going to be executed. In fact it doesn't tell you anything because there isn't one. You'd think the intro would tell you what's going on: Who you are and what you're doing. If the film confused you, then you don't stand a chance with the game. Naturally, anything relating to murders, rituals, witches and ancient evil is going to be popular, and many fans of the film are going to rush out and buy the game no matter what it's like.which would probably be a mistake. You have been sent in to investigate the murder of seven children by one Rustin Parr, a loner who lives in the forest by town, which is said by local folklore to be haunted by the Blair Witch, who possessed Parr and forced him to murder the children. You play Elspeth 'Doc' Holliday, a member of Spookhouse a top-secret government agency set up to track spooky things (yes, the very same organization featured in Nocturne: expect obligatory appearances from familiar characters like the "Stranger"). The game is set in the one-horse town of Burkitsville, where all the atrocities took place in the film. It turned out to be an 'action/adventure', which completely buggered its chances with the gaming cognoscenti. Let's face it, Blair Witch could have been a FPS, RTS, RPG and just about any other acronym you could think of. Exactly what you would do in this game was not. The idea that there would be a game to follow up the film's success was inevitable. One half were on the edge of their seats the whole time, the other half wondered why everyone was getting worked up over the shake-o-vision camera work and the fact that you never actually saw anything. The Blair Witch Project was a film that divided audiences like no other.
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