Obscure: The Aftermath
- Six different characters to play – each needing to contribute their unique abilities
- Survival horror game heavily influenced by teen horror movies
- Unique co-op mode where a friend can join in anytime
- Highly detailed, creepy environments
- Immersive soundtrack performed by the Boston Symphonic Orchestra and the Paris Opera Children’s Choir
Product Description
Two years ago at Leafmore High, a group of young teenagers were trapped inside their school and hunted by monsters that had been released by the maniac principal. Some of them survived that terrible night, while most others perished. The survivors have since selected up their lives and joined college. But all is not right at Fallcreek University… Weird black flowers have suddenly sprung up everywhere on campus. While experimenting with these flowers in class, a perilous substance was learned that induces weird but plain dreams. A handful of students soon find out that there is more to the flowers than anyone could have expected. When the seeds finally germinate, a terrible trip suddenly turns into a horrible reality…
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I played owing to the first Obscure but never really got into the game. I wanted to get my cash’s worth, though, and finished it. Surprisingly I read excellent reviews of the follow up “The Aftermath.” I chose to try it since I really delight in some of the other survival/horror sports meeting and can’t find enough quality titles. The Aftermath was NOT what I was looking for: it was NOT a quality title, and in my opinion worse than the original, which was terrible enough. For one, the characters are college kids and their behavior and language are suppose to mirror that of “real” college kids, I guess. It didn’t, and I in fact wanted to kill them off myself they were so absurdly irritating. The characters are idiots. The game play is dull with a lot of walking around searching for clues what to do next. In a way, it reminded me a lot of a Silent Hill game in that respect- all atmosphere with no real substance and lots walking around. I traded this one in without finishing it, which is rare for me. I couldn’t take it. I swear I won’t buy a third- if there is one.
Rating: 1 / 5
First off let me say I’m really into puzzle/mystery sports meeting and was wanting to start playing other sports meeting from different genres.
My boyfriend and I found Obscure: The Aftermath at game trading store for about $15 and were shocked to see that it was able to have 2 players. We got it thinking it can’t be that terrible. From the start it reminded me of Resident Evil but a small bit softer version. The storyline is okay. Not anything really special. The backgrounds are splendid and have plenty of detail. I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were so many puzzle like parts in the game.
The few things I didn’t like is the slow save and load times (forever) and the fact that if you don’t grab the right partner to come with you, you have to back track to get the right one and sometimes more than once for the same mission thing.
By and large. Excellent game for what I spent. A small too small. You could end it in one day if you wanted too. It was exact game for both me and my boyfriend. I got the puzzles and he got the monsters and all the shooting.
Rating: 4 / 5
Just finished this one after an inspired 23 hours of gaming with a friend (no we didn’t play this the whole time-it only took us about 7 hours to complete it), and I have to say I was by and large pretty satisfied here. But there are some minor issues that keep this one from being splendid. See not more than:
Tale-3/5: The basics-stereotypical college students-one dimensional caricatures really-try to survive the horrible events that happen at their home institution stemming from the newest natural high. If you played the first one, no real surprises here. From there, we got real confused, but here’s our best guess. So, it starts out as an homage to films like The Faculty, but in college? Okay, I’m in. Then, about midway owing to, we start treading into Incorrect Turn/Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory? Alright…I’m still in. Finally, we take a major u-turn, start watching The Order or The Skulls, only to have an even weirder (nearly Resident Evil) twist at the end (I won’t spoil it for you)? By the end I was done trying to figure this one out. The tale is drawing from way too much material, and it barely holds together. Still worth the play, in my opinion, though…let’s go on.
Gameplay-5/5: This is where it hooks you. Co-op, multiplayer survival horror, smartly place together. Rather than have one character stay stationary while the other goes off and pushes the one button that will let player one go forward, you are mandatory to work on puzzles and situations together. My favorite part? Strategizing for combating the mutants-who gets what weapon, which enemy is priority-we had an resolution blast at that. Combat is pretty gut, too, with baseball bats, golf clubs, and we even found a nail bat. There is also a plethora of firearms, and tools-made-into-weapons, so it rarely gets beating up baddies. Unless you are small on ammo, but that’s what these sports meeting are about. But that is only part of it. The next major component is that each playable character has a special ability-strength (to go heavy stuff), hacking, cryptography, etc. You may have to do some backtracking when you grabbed the incorrect character, but it’s okay. It is a clean concept that plays out pretty well. I hope you don’t despise the lockpicking as much as I did, though….that takes some patience.
Graphics-4/5:Given that the focus was on the Wii version, I was pretty pleased with the graphics from this multiplatform game. Too often nowadays, the excellent ol’ PS2 gets the small end of the graphics stick because developers don’t want to spend the time to optimize the sports meeting for the system. But anyway, the monster models and character models look brilliant, locations are sufficiently creepy (Favorite area? The hospital-one hallway does the lights on lights off trick expertly-really chance stuff for a blinking light!) and only rarely will you find a major graphical hiccup (once during a cut scene, I noticed that the engine loaded fog after the scene had started…no biggie). It looks pretty excellent here. A couple of really excellent camera angles during early cutscenes caught my eye, too. Lots of gore, just for the record.
By and large-4/5: Though there is really no replay regard here, save for unlocking one box that we couldn’t get to work the first go-round, I fully be going to to hang on to this one, as it is a FUN party game. It wouldn’t have been half as fun without someone to smash heads with, solve puzzles (and argue over the right way to go about it), and genuinely get into this game. There were some moments where we got a excellent scare out of it and BOTH started blasting away like madmen trying to take out a monster. You could spend your cash on much much worse; it’s cheap enough that you really won’t get burned for trying it out. We should really reward certain (Canadian) publishers that will take a chance to make such innovative sports meeting on an aging system.
Go order it right now.
Rating: 4 / 5
The game started off promising. The backgrounds and scenes are excellent. It’s just the game play is impossible. I had to stop at one point because I couldn’t get the character to in fact walk up to the roof. Might be a glitch.
I found Resident Evil 1 to be way more entertaining. This game is trying to be that game, but it fails miserably. Not for me. I’m glad to see some people got it. lol.
Rating: 5 / 5
This horror takes place in a college in Fall Creek. There are characters Corey, Amy, Sven, Mei, and Jun. Also joining are a few survivors from the previous Obscure from Leafmore Highschool. There are weird flowers that produce dark mist cause ill effects in people turning them into mutants.
In this game you can switch out your characters for another one, partnering with the AI or a friend. Each of the characters has a special attribute, like acrobatics, computers, strength, etc. It does get irritating when you don’t have the right character and have to go all the way back to where your group is to switch out.
The combat is a small better than the first Obscure, the enemies seem to in fact get stunned with hits. They can hurt you a splendid deal, but not as crazy as Obscure 1. You use blunt weapons from hockey sticks, bats, gold clubs, and chain saws. You do get some guns in this game from
pistols, shotguns, flare guns, and stun guns. A bit more variety of weaponary this time around. Combat is more satisfying here.
The characters themselves, there are alot of them that are not very likable. There are maybe 2 or 3 I like out of the bunch. They all tell alot of jokes, or insult eachother during your survival. Their reaction should be a bit more when killer monsters are hunting after them throughout the campus.
Throught the game there will be a excellent number of puzzles to get owing to to the next room. This can be fun at times and challenging. You cannot use the same save point twice, so you have to be careful not to dissipate it.
This is a decent game, and sequel which I reflect is better than 1.
The game is only $20. If your really into survival horrors, and have beaten Resident Evils, Silent Hills, and Fatal Frames you might want to pick this up for the excellent price it’s selling at.
Rating: 3 / 5