You wake up in a filthy room, your hands and feet bound with duct tape. You have no idea how you got there. No clue as to who took you. All you know is that you need to escape before they come back to something unthinkable to you — something that involves an axe. That’s the opening of Hysteria Project, a new choose-your-own-adventure game for the iDevice, shot entirely on digital video. It’s a creepy set-up, to be sure. But does the game have the mileage to back up its intriguing premise? Or is this just a retread of those full-motion video games that helped doom the SEGA CD to the dustbin of history?
Hysteria Project gets a few things correct right away.Unless you make every wrong move in your escape attempt, you will likely get to the end of Hysteria Project in about an hour. It’s doubtful you’ll replay the game, too, since there seems to be just one correct path through the game. Once you know the choices to make to get out alive, there’s no reason to restart Hysteria Project unless you absolutely have a scene or two you want to replay.
Nobody wants to wake up like this.
The progression of the game is very straightforward. Every couple minutes, you have a choice to make. The screen fades to a decision tree. You tap the desired choice and then watch the next segment to see if you made the right or wrong move. If you pick a literal dead end, you go back anywhere between one to three choices in the decision tree. This may frustrate you much like it did me, especially when you’re bumped back the full three and have to watch the same sequences over again with no way to skip ahead.
Occasionally, you must interact with the video by tapping specific spots on the screen as bloody handprints appear. For example, when weaving through a tricky set of tripwires, you must touch the hands quickly before you accidentally trigger an explosion. Timing is everything on these scenes and the required response time gets tighter as you close in on the end of the game. There are a couple puzzles, too. One involves a strange tattoo on your arm. The other is a shred of paper discovered that holds the key to escaping a forest. I’ll spoil neither here, but I liked the paper puzzle quite a bit. Pretty clever.
My chief complaint with Hysteria Project is that it seems to lose focus as it goes on. The game opens strong. But then it wanders. It employs a somewhat cheap mechanic to kick off the back half of the game that I didn’t buy at all. That said, the ending shows a lot of promise for a future sequel.
The video sequences themselves are nicely done. The whole game is seen through the eyes of the kidnapped person — you — and so from time to time, you see your hands or feet in the frame. The feet work looks a touch awkward, though. The locations were well chosen. The forest is suitably creepy, especially when you turn back and see the hatchet man moving through the mist after you. There are a few digital elements that appear from time to time, such as the enhancement of the lights on the tripwire explosives or this “thing” that occasionally appears in the forest but is never fully explained. (Chapter two of Hysteria project, perhaps?) The compression results in a lot of artifacting, but it doesn’t really interfere with the narrative. The music is very good, too. It drones on and on, working overtime to create a palpable sense of dread.
Languages: English, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, Español.
New in this version
Unavailable
Languages
English
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
This cracked iPhone Game just for ggiphone.com members only, You should free register to be an member, then login with your account, can download this game for free, Enjoy it!
Hysteria Project gets a few things correct right away.Unless you make every wrong move in your escape attempt, you will likely get to the end of Hysteria Project in about an hour. It’s doubtful you’ll replay the game, too, since there seems to be just one correct path through the game. Once you know the choices to make to get out alive, there’s no reason to restart Hysteria Project unless you absolutely have a scene or two you want to replay.
Nobody wants to wake up like this.
The progression of the game is very straightforward. Every couple minutes, you have a choice to make. The screen fades to a decision tree. You tap the desired choice and then watch the next segment to see if you made the right or wrong move. If you pick a literal dead end, you go back anywhere between one to three choices in the decision tree. This may frustrate you much like it did me, especially when you’re bumped back the full three and have to watch the same sequences over again with no way to skip ahead.
Occasionally, you must interact with the video by tapping specific spots on the screen as bloody handprints appear. For example, when weaving through a tricky set of tripwires, you must touch the hands quickly before you accidentally trigger an explosion. Timing is everything on these scenes and the required response time gets tighter as you close in on the end of the game. There are a couple puzzles, too. One involves a strange tattoo on your arm. The other is a shred of paper discovered that holds the key to escaping a forest. I’ll spoil neither here, but I liked the paper puzzle quite a bit. Pretty clever.
My chief complaint with Hysteria Project is that it seems to lose focus as it goes on. The game opens strong. But then it wanders. It employs a somewhat cheap mechanic to kick off the back half of the game that I didn’t buy at all. That said, the ending shows a lot of promise for a future sequel.
The video sequences themselves are nicely done. The whole game is seen through the eyes of the kidnapped person — you — and so from time to time, you see your hands or feet in the frame. The feet work looks a touch awkward, though. The locations were well chosen. The forest is suitably creepy, especially when you turn back and see the hatchet man moving through the mist after you. There are a few digital elements that appear from time to time, such as the enhancement of the lights on the tripwire explosives or this “thing” that occasionally appears in the forest but is never fully explained. (Chapter two of Hysteria project, perhaps?) The compression results in a lot of artifacting, but it doesn’t really interfere with the narrative. The music is very good, too. It drones on and on, working overtime to create a palpable sense of dread.
Languages: English, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, Español.
New in this version
Unavailable
Languages
English
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
This cracked iPhone Game just for ggiphone.com members only, You should free register to be an member, then login with your account, can download this game for free, Enjoy it!
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