REVIEW: Overblood (1997)

I played the demo of this on release, and then spent years searching for it, and finally on a visit to Canada twelve years later, there it was, sitting on the shelf all smug. It was one of the few times where I've instantly scooped up a game without even considering the price.

Overblood is a fully 3D survival horror game featuring a fully grown man in an ever so slightly tight one-sie called Raz Karcy, a man awaking from a cryogenic freeze with no memory. He befriends a little robot along the way called Pipo and the two work together to try and escape from the abandoned facility and also recover Raz's memories.

The game plays well, but the movement of the models is laughable at times; watching Raz run kept me entertained for ages, not to mention his hilarious falling death animation, and sometimes I saved it right before a crevice just so I could watch and hear Raz plummet screaming "BAAW!" several times. The voice acting is beyond bad and incredibly funny, but forgivable considering how old this game actually is.

The story is pretty bland, but it's not a major issue. I enjoyed playing the game a lot, and even though the script and the animations of the characters just topped off the experience as one of the so-bad-it's-good games ever, it's a challenging, interesting game and I'd definitely play it again.