Stephen King’s F13
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Stephen King’s F13 decks out your computer with a horror aesthetic, offering “deathtop” images, “screamsavers,” and a trio of minigames. The capper is a perfectly presented novella, Everything’s Eventual, a tale that brings King’s usual themes into a high-tech context.
The program is largely disappointing. It has been argued that the most critical element of horror media is sound, and F13 does have a abundance of chilling and ominous noises. But, everything else is carefully honed to a PG level of taste–rather than being scary, or even creepy, most aspects of F13 fall into the category of horror camp. Two of the three minigames are unadorned twitch sports meeting. In Bug Splat, you flatten insects untidily before they can overwhelm your screen; in Whack-A-Android, you dispatch the undead with a shovel. The third game, No Swimming, lets you feed various animals to a school of piranha. The sports meeting are hilarious, especially Whack-A-Android. They’re not very challenging, though, and certainly not dread-inspiring.
As for the novella, while its interface is gorgeous, it is also weak when compared to Stephen King’s other work. It has a simplistic moral, a predictable ending, and offers small in the way of edge.
Still, hard-core King fans who want a complete pool may delight in F13, as will younger horror aficionados who cut their teeth on the watered-down terrors of R. L. Stine. For everyone else, if you want truly scary wallpaper and other trappings for your PC, you will probably have to look elsewhere. –Alyx Dellamonica
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I loved “Everything’s Eventual” and the entire three stars are for the small tale. The Screen Savers and sports meeting are mediocre at best. My 8 year ancient nephew was not impressed. Would have preferred the book all by itself.
Rating: 3 / 5
this is only a couple of screen savers, and 3 mediocre sports meeting. the sports meeting are not even desktop worthy. this truely is not worth anyones cash. it really should be freeware.
Rating: 2 / 5
Very small, sports meeting looks like they are from about 10 years ago, the only thing that makes it somewhat worthwhile is the tale. One word…. STUPID.
Rating: 1 / 5
I agree with another reviewer, this should have been freeware. Not only is this a TOTAL dissipate of cash, but a lot of it is really unsettling, AND the graphics and sports meeting are so lame! The “sounds” are really sick, I mean how often can you listen to someone being stabbed or strangled? Why would you want to? The only excellent screensaver is a demented clown, but again, the graphics left me wanting SO much more! And the screensavers–forget it. They range from crappy animation to again, really queasy and mysoginist! What kind of person wants to see a woman stabbed over and over agian as she struggles for help? And you can see this scene played out in every room of the house! Yech! Don’t get uppity, I AM a King fan, but this pool of sickness, plus a TOTALLY mediocre tale are a huge time and cash dissipate!
Rating: 1 / 5
Well, so far, I’ve played the sports meeting associated with this piece of software. I must say this: Wow! A small yucky in the bug department, but that’s what the first “Creepshow” was all about. I must say the Pirahna game is a bit cruel at times to look at, but still excellent.
The small tale, “Everything’s Eventual”, is something I’m reduction myself for. I like King’s small tales, but with what I spent on this game, I want to wait a small while. I’ll get back to everyone later on with my review. Maybe I’ll give it five stars by then.
Rating: 4 / 5