Afterfall: InSanity - Extended Edition

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  1. AlienSpaceBats
    Oct 6, 2013
    7
    Considering Afterfall is a game that I had never heard of and had zero expectations for I can't help being impressed. Despite some animation/voice acting shortcomings (visual/sound design are excellent) I loved the the first half of the game; a mix of Dead Space (gameplay and sound design) with the visual aesthetics of Fallout, Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc. There's lots of nice littleConsidering Afterfall is a game that I had never heard of and had zero expectations for I can't help being impressed. Despite some animation/voice acting shortcomings (visual/sound design are excellent) I loved the the first half of the game; a mix of Dead Space (gameplay and sound design) with the visual aesthetics of Fallout, Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc. There's lots of nice little details but atmosphere is missing; the game is very easy and all enemies (even bosses) are entirely non-threatening. I found the second half to be a bit of a patchy affair, but thanks to some reveals and twists, found it worth sticking around to the end for (6 hours total).… Expand
  2. hellcat5
    Dec 27, 2013
    7
    I'm going to bash the negative critiques by by saying they apparently don't have the brains to communicate clearly why this game fails. I'm going to give you a very direct statement regarding this game's failures, and this game's rather shocking successes.

    If we look at the camera control for the character, when using keyboard, we might feel the control operates imprecisely. However,    I'm going to bash the negative critiques by by saying they apparently don't have the brains to communicate clearly why this game fails. I'm going to give you a very direct statement regarding this game's failures, and this game's rather shocking successes.

    If we look at the camera control for the character, when using keyboard, we might feel the control operates imprecisely. However, if we compare how this game's camera works, it works at least as well as Mass Effect camera. The camera was created with the controller in mind, which makes it very smooth when playing with a controller. I've experienced this issue with other games similarly designed.

    While animations don't always match up with the combat, I can think of other games that have, again, a similar issue, yet received a higher rating. Sure, you can tell they didn't have a mo cap suit for the actors. I get a sense that these were all hand animated, which are quite good for that.

    The voice overs aren't the best, but they work. Some of it is cheesy, some of it doesn't capture the right vibe in expression for what's going on. But, overall it works, and I got into the game without feeling interrupted from the environment by the voice acting. The only distracting aspect of the voice acting lies with the running voice over for breathing. It starts too soon, and doesn't sound like a winded runner.

    I have a blast with the puzzles in game, as small as they are. They remind me of some of the good ones from Resident Evil 4. I enjoy the combat, chopping heads off with my preferred weapon, an axe. I enjoy listening to the recordings the doctor makes to himself, and reading the notes he finds related to the story. I enjoy using the PDA, which is their user interface.

    If I could compare this game to another, I'd say it's like Resident Evil 4 & 5, and it's like Mass Effect series, and it's like Dead Space.

    If they spent a little more time looking for voice actors out there to help them, they could have an expressive voice over casting. I can tell they put time into the assets, and coding. I think they could have used the same effort with the voice acting and animation.

    Sure, there are things in this game that tell game developers what to avoid, but the developers did many things right. If you like games like dead space, or resident evil 4 and 5, or the first mass effect, check this game out. If this game came out around the same time of the original mass effect, or before it, they'd have gotten a score in the 80s here on metacritique.

    There's three reasons they didn't get a higher score. There's only one "official" critique. The timing for release, and no one paid a critic for a good critique.

    Play the game without comparing it to other games, but as it's own entity. I enjoy it, you might too. Destructoid go to hell with your overly subjective critique with no examples.    … Expand
  3. ThePCGamer101
    Jul 19, 2014
    5
    The game is... meh. It's not terrible, nor is it unplayable. The story is not bad, the enviromental backgrounds and graphics are actually pretty good and the music is very well done. The atmosphere is okay, but it is not a true horror game to what I have played, there are some scary scenes but not a game like Amnesia: The Dark Descent or OUTLAST which you will get some good scares, butThe game is... meh. It's not terrible, nor is it unplayable. The story is not bad, the enviromental backgrounds and graphics are actually pretty good and the music is very well done. The atmosphere is okay, but it is not a true horror game to what I have played, there are some scary scenes but not a game like Amnesia: The Dark Descent or OUTLAST which you will get some good scares, but reminds me like I am playing Alan Wake or Eternal Darkness with their pyschological horror. But, there are some flaws, the sound effects are terrible, they sound like they were taken from a cheap sound website or from a cheap B-Movie, the voice acting is not bad, the main character's voice is awful, it's like the voice actor who voiced the main character was not bothered or was bored when recording, as it sounds pretty boring. The other actors voices are not bad, but still not up to good quality standards. The combat is awful, it looks like everyone has problems like the exorcist having spasims (if that's how you write it) and I have encountered some glitches and bugs, like doors won't open and I have to reload to the last checkpoint, and sometimes the game freezes momentarily which bugs me, but overall the game is not terrible and is quite a good game if you are bored from other games and feel like playing a game that has a mediocre gameplay and story. Afterfall Insanity is the game for you, Afterfall Insanity: Extended Edition includes the DLC with it. The DLC honestly is a waste, why on earth would you call it DLC if there is only two modes, Dirty Arena (in which you use melee weapons, and as you progress you use guns) and Second Strike (in which you use guns), which the gameplay just consists of wave after wave of enemies, then when you reach the fifth wave you get the boss. What a waste. Now I can understand if it was in Co-Op or Multiplayer, but not on your own! I understand the story focuses on just one guy, but on the DLC, the player and his friends or other players could of played as the main character, Karolina, the colonel, anyone of the characters mentioned, but nope, just you all by yourself, hitting and shooting your way through five waves over and over again, boring. What a waste on a good idea for DLC. Don't try the DLC, unless you are interested in what the DLC holds (like me), then by all means, try it... just don't expect anything good out of it! And if this is what DLC should be, then thank god I don't waste my money of this type of "downloadable content"… Expand
  4. ClassicSuperman
    Oct 28, 2014
    7
    For an obscure developer this is a pretty nice game in the good old genre of post-apocalyptical world. The commands are simple and the storyline is pretty straightforward, so it's nearly impossible to get lost on the stages.

    The game presents good puzzles, some of them you must solve in a determined time to make things more challenging, lots of gore (yay, right?) with an arsenal of    For an obscure developer this is a pretty nice game in the good old genre of post-apocalyptical world. The commands are simple and the storyline is pretty straightforward, so it's nearly impossible to get lost on the stages.

    The game presents good puzzles, some of them you must solve in a determined time to make things more challenging, lots of gore (yay, right?) with an arsenal of melee weapons.

    Good catch for the game to use a psychiatrist as the main character, it's sort of unusual. Thumbs down for the cliché storyline. All cards on the table, this game is worth a shot if you like the genre.    … Expand
  5. PortalToH3LL
    Dec 16, 2018
    6
    Post-apocalyptic game developed by the Polish company Intoxicate Studios, Game looks like a son of Dead Space and Fallout. Story is interesting, graphics are average, animation is clumsy, there are a lot of technical problems. Mid-level game.

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  1. Destructoid
    Apr 9, 2013
    30
    InSanity was never going to be a great game. It would have struggled to be considered a good one. It did, however, have that certain special something, possessed of enough charisma to at least make me debate whether or not it was a bad game. That is, until the gear shift and rapid decline, at which point I gave up trying to be nice and settled in for an absolutely terrible time.
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