Game Review: Obscure

I recently purchased the game Obscure for the Xbox. Why buy such an obscure title that you and most gamers have never heard of? Well the only reason why I purchased said title was it came recommend from EGM as a good game on a budget. Not that I listen to EGM on the likes of budget games that don't get reviewed, but for the fact that this game was a Resident Evil esque survival horror game. Now I know this will instantly turn some people off, especially reader Eric, who despises the RE series. But his game has a little twist ion the RE formula, that is it is two player simultaneous and has a story strangely similar to Alone In The Dark for the Dreamcast. Now that I think about it it has a lot more in common with Alone In The Dark than any RE title.

The game starts with a mysterious happenings at the local highschool. One of your friends goes missing and the rest of your gang gets locked in the school. So this is where you can choose from one of four players each with their own unique ability's. Well their ability's aint that special, as a matter of fact they don't really help out that much. It was definitely a something that should have been developed further.

The over all game play is the same as any other survival horror game. It consist of find item, conserve ammo, and repeat. But with the two player co-op it makes it a little more fun. Although the co-op suffers from the crappy stagnant camera angles. If player 2 walks out of player one's path then he is a goner. This can become very annoying during enemy engagements.

All in all I would give this game a 6 out of 10. It was definitely worth $20. The story is passable and unfortunately this game would have been a hell of a lot better had it just gone under some minor tweaking and refinement. Its obvious playing through the game a lot of effort was put into it. And the whole two player thing was great idea that could have come off a little better. Still nothing beets sitting down with my bro and kicking ass!