The Adrenaline Vault: "Outcry tests the patience of even the most experienced adventure gamer. Load times are unnecessarily long; especially considering the entire program is installed on the hard drive. The lack of free movement throughout the game world is irksome, and the camera rotation is not always easy to control, making finding and collecting items difficult. There is a multitude of information that must be found and digested, but it's not always clear how to apply the things that you learn to help you progress, and there's no fast-travel mechanic to help you get from place to place quickly, a deficiency that becomes even more glaring during the frequent backtracking that has to be done to solve certain puzzles. You need a special kind of fortitude to get past all of this; those who don't have it are more likely to give up long before the end"
Jason Codd: "Then obviously we've moved into our first console products as well which, I think for an independent publisher to have their first [Xbox] 360 product 14 months after first set-up is pretty efficient. We've got our own IP being developed on [Nintendo] DS and Wii as well at the moment, so we're very very excited about where we're going."
Resolution writes: "Outcry is a gorgeously stylised, hugely atmospheric and occasionally thought-provoking game. But it's too clumsy in its design, so teeth-grindingly, wall-punchingly difficult, to properly recommend. It breaks just about every rule of adventure game design that you can think of. But there's the odd moment where you kind of understand why it's doing so. It thrives through its obscurity. It gains respect for that.
As is the case with many games from weirdest Mother Russia, it's plainly obvious why this found popularity in its homeland. Equally, as is the case with many games from weirdest Mother Russia, it's pretty hard to stomach if you're not."
Mamba games are continuing to build retail support for their catalogue within the UK gaming market by making sure all retail avenues within the UK are established. Following the recent launch of their official website, Mamba has signed up Advantage Distribution to help them sell into independent retailers and online stores within the UK.
lol This game sounds terrible