Excerpt: Survival horror can get pretty lonely at times as you make your way through often quiet and lifeless environments, so how much better it is to have another player tagging
Summary: Obscure II returns to the survival horror series, Fallcreek University is about to play host to some macabre events and Straybolt dons his hockey mask to find out what
Excerpt: Obscure is to survival horror games as Scream was to teen horror flicks. With a cool two-player co-op mode and a bargain basement price, this is one of those "sure to be...
Excerpt: With the release of Resident Evil 4 earlier this year, survival horror games were changed forever. RE4 set the bar extremely high for others that decide to step into this...
Summary: While Obscure isn’t a great title, or even really a good one, its low price point makes it an attractive offer for survival horror buffs, but with most other gamers this
Excerpt: While Dreamcatcher Interactive's Obscure does absolutely nothing to propel survival/horror gameplay to the next level (fall back to the last level, maybe), at least they
Summary: Short, predictable, and buried with survival-horror banality, Obscure also offers innovation at a pleasing price tag, yet is still doomed to fall into… obscurity.
Pros: In-game music; convincing sense of creeping terror; reasonably polished environments; two-player mode is innovative; almost-enticing extras; Dolby sound options.
Cons: Licensed musak; short length;over-reliance on survival horror traits; annoying voice-over and cast; somewhat clumsy control; Jaggy graphics compared to the Xbox.