Outcry (also known as Sublustrum) is the first adventure from Russian developer Phantomery Interactive. In it, your brother invites you to visit him at his apartment, but when you get there you discover that he's gone missing. Moreover, after reading some of his research journals, you learn that recently your brother had built some sort of machine, and that supposedly the machine can separate the mind from the body and allow a person to explore strange lands. Some drugs are involved in the process, and so you don't really know if your brother was onto something or if he was simply hallucinating, but you decide to find out.
Well, obviously, the machine actually works, and so you spend a lot of time in the adventure exploring unusual locations. The locations start out making some sense -- for example, the first place you visit is an alternate version of your brother's apartment -- but then they just sort of get random and bizarre, and you're not given any sort of reasoning about why they exist or what you're supposed to be doing when you get there, which makes the game confusing and frustrating.
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.
