Obscure The Aftermath
What is the mystery of strange black flowers that have sprung up everywhere on campus? While experimenting with these flowers, you discover a dangerous substance that causes you to experience strange and vivid dreams. On a bad school trip, when the seeds finally germinate, you find out the horrible reality of the flowers. You have to stop a contagion while fighting a horde of mutants before it’s too late. This game takes place two years after the gruesome events of the first game. You can choose from among six characters and one AI controlled sidekick, with each character having their own unique abilities. You can switch at different points in the game, and a friend can even join you at any time. Among the many available weapons, light is probably your best ally to keep the monsters at bay.
Vast variety of weapons and horrifying monsters Weapons include – a flashlight, baseball bat, flaregun, pistol, submachine gun, chainsaw, and dynamite Immersive soundtrack performed by the Boston Symphonic Orchestra and the Paris Opera Children’s Choir
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Obscure but fun
Graphics: I thought the graphics were good. I firmly align myself as a retro gamer, but the graphics in horror games are one place where I can easily concede a point or two. I thought that the backgrounds were pretty slick; creepy too.
Music: I don’t put a lot of stock in my game music (which I feel bad about because someone’s hard work goes into it, but it’s not one of my big focuses). I vaguely remember thinking that the music was genre appropriate though.
Story (& voice): I feel voice work in games tends to be lacking. My only problem with it was that the script was a passable Sci-fi/horror flick but the voicing was 1 or 2 grades below. Let’s face it, they don’t get a lot of the super voice talents for video games (think Roger Bumpass or Venus Terzo).
Replay: The puzzles won’t give you much trouble on successive runs, but I’ll probably go through it again just because I really like all of the other aspects of the game.
Fun: Amazing if you like Sci-fi/horror. If you don’t, you may not take a shine to the zombies and blood & creep smeared decor (so why are you looking at getting it anyway?)
I think I may have paid the FULL retail price, roughly to the tune of $30-40, but I adore this game and consider it money well spent.
5 Stars how many good games does the wii have
now some say this game isnt that good others love it let me just say its better then most wii games. given its a ps2 port with wii controls it a pretty good game the 2-player co op is good the story is broken/I have the first one some of the stuff they say in the Aftermath is incorrect but I overlooked that because the game is fun
pros
2-player co-op
move and shoot(can walk and shoot at the same time)
good cutsence design
easy for new gamers
good price
cons
even with the 480p c. cables it only displays at 480i
broken storyline
the graphic where not upgrade for the wii
4 Stars I had tons of fun
I’m no video game connoisseur, but I had a lot of fun with this game. It was challenging enough that I couldn’t speed right through it, but I also didn’t get stuck anywhere. I enojyed the graphics and don’t have any complaints on the controls. I’m a big Resident Evil fan and while it’s not as good, it definitely had enough similarities that I really enjoyed it.
3 Stars Meh kinda in the middle
The plot is kinda murky. I expect a decent plot out of games in this genre. Maybe I’m too used to Resident Evil and Silent Hill. However , the puzzles are fun to get through. I feel the battle system is weak however. So it cancels out. The atmosphere is good nut then the character acting is pretty miserable.
Basically, this game should be better than it is.
1 Star Hands down, worst ever
OK, so I’ve been playing Res Evil 4, so I’m a little biased. But I’ve also been playing House of Dead and Res Evil Umbrella Chronicles, so I know a little bit about survival horror games that aren’t so great. But Obscure is awful. It starts out so dark you can’t even see what is there. I walked arond in circles for ten minutes trying to find a way out. Then you are suddenly flashed back to college and the whole scene becomes a drug induced blur. If you get motion sick from games at all, forget this one!
Lousy controls, horrible voice acting (made me feel like I was watching one of those teeny bop horror remakes), no fun.
