Slimgamer reviews the point and click adventure game, 1953: KGB Unleashed by United Independent Entertainment.
Critically Sane: "For as much as I love gameplay heavy games like platformers and shooters, I still love a great story and no genre does storytelling better than adventure games. After all, how hard can you mess up a game where you just point and click at things to reveal exposition? Granted, I’m being a bit reductionary with that view of the genre, as some adventure games feature wonderfully thought out puzzles to go along with their rich storytelling. But at the end of the day, storytelling is the backbone of the adventure game and without a strong narrative, they are generally poor excuses for games.
Focusing on the exploration of an old Soviet bunker where paranormal experiments were being performed, the premise of 1953 – KGB Unleashed was interesting enough to capture my attention. And then the game started and it all went downhill from there."
PJ: "For whatever reason, I had gotten it into my head, after checking the promotional screenshots for KGB Unleashed that it would, gameplay-wise, be similar to Gone Home and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, where you have the ability to walk around freely like in a first person shooter. I was wrong. What we have here, is an old-school first person point & click adventure. With the recent resurgence of the genre in mind, is this one worth picking up, or should it have stayed in the dark bunker from where it came?"
While it's a quiet life to be a horror fan, we just go a bit crazy near Halloween. We like scary games, and are not ashamed to cry onto our keyboards and wake up from our beds in the middle of the night under the lights of candles flickering dimly in the cold dark room playing on your primal fears.
Let’s take a look at all the games that have us turn off the light and put those surround headphones on only to dilate your pupils and increase your heartbeat.
