Hi Escapists! Just wondering if anyone here has played Cryostasis, and what they think of it. I've been working my way through it over the last week or two (missing the old days of gaming all day every day =/) and so far I quite like this game. I think I'm near the end... Anyway, it has some neat aspects to it.
For starters, the graphics are quite good. Character models are a little on the cartoony side in the way of Timesplitters, but the actual scenery and items and all that stuff are very well done. Cold is a huge part of the game, and most rooms are covered in frost and icicles which looks great. Often you do something to activate a heat source, and after a short while all the frost melts, icicles break and fall... it's very neat.
The game itself is somewhat of a survival horror thriller I suppose. You don't get a gun until after 3 melee weapons, and even then it's a very slow bolt action rifle. There's also not an overabundance of enemies. Later in the game they start appearing a little more frequently, but prior to that there's only one or two here and there. Sometimes they do the whole jump out at you unexpectedly in a dark room thing, which can be creepy.
One of the more interesting points of the game is in the way it develops. Oftentimes you'll walk into a room or hallway, then suddenly the screen flashes black and white and you get a view of the past to develop the story of what happened to the ship... why it got stuck... what happened to the crew etc. Often during these you can move very slowly and the mouse/view movement is extremely sluggish. Other times there's a... danger in the vision and it has actually resulted in death, which was surprising the first time. The other cool mechanic of the game is that you often run into a corpse with a red glow at it's heart. By walking up to it you can relive the last moments of the characters life, and you try to change the past. This also develops the story as to what happened when shit hit the fan on the ship. Sometimes it's a bit dumb/simple but some of them have neat little "puzzles" or very creepy moments.
All in all I'm really liking this game, yet I hadn't even heard of it until I did research into Nvidia's PhysX. There's not many games that support accelerated PhysX and this is one of them. It adds things like more realistic ice breaking physics, water particles that are interactable and some other stuff. One of the biggest downsides of this game is that it's so highly optimized to run on Nvidia cards, it runs rather poorly on my ATI cards. And really, no games run poorly on a pair of 5850s. Metro 2033 is the only other game to have any kind of issues.
So yeah, has anyone else played this game? Like it?
For starters, the graphics are quite good. Character models are a little on the cartoony side in the way of Timesplitters, but the actual scenery and items and all that stuff are very well done. Cold is a huge part of the game, and most rooms are covered in frost and icicles which looks great. Often you do something to activate a heat source, and after a short while all the frost melts, icicles break and fall... it's very neat.
The game itself is somewhat of a survival horror thriller I suppose. You don't get a gun until after 3 melee weapons, and even then it's a very slow bolt action rifle. There's also not an overabundance of enemies. Later in the game they start appearing a little more frequently, but prior to that there's only one or two here and there. Sometimes they do the whole jump out at you unexpectedly in a dark room thing, which can be creepy.
One of the more interesting points of the game is in the way it develops. Oftentimes you'll walk into a room or hallway, then suddenly the screen flashes black and white and you get a view of the past to develop the story of what happened to the ship... why it got stuck... what happened to the crew etc. Often during these you can move very slowly and the mouse/view movement is extremely sluggish. Other times there's a... danger in the vision and it has actually resulted in death, which was surprising the first time. The other cool mechanic of the game is that you often run into a corpse with a red glow at it's heart. By walking up to it you can relive the last moments of the characters life, and you try to change the past. This also develops the story as to what happened when shit hit the fan on the ship. Sometimes it's a bit dumb/simple but some of them have neat little "puzzles" or very creepy moments.
All in all I'm really liking this game, yet I hadn't even heard of it until I did research into Nvidia's PhysX. There's not many games that support accelerated PhysX and this is one of them. It adds things like more realistic ice breaking physics, water particles that are interactable and some other stuff. One of the biggest downsides of this game is that it's so highly optimized to run on Nvidia cards, it runs rather poorly on my ATI cards. And really, no games run poorly on a pair of 5850s. Metro 2033 is the only other game to have any kind of issues.
So yeah, has anyone else played this game? Like it?
