And I’m saddened by the absence of the signature sanity meter, one of the original Amnesia's most memorable elements. Your trusty lantern no longer requires a constant supply of oil, though having it lit will still attract the various beasts which roam the world. Gone is your item inventory and resource management, replaced with a newfound emphasis on environment exploration. I can understand the reasoning behind striping away a lot of the features that made the original a unique, if slightly cumbersome experience. For that, I blame an across-the-board simplification of many of its systems and mechanics. But in creating this atmosphere, it loses many of the jump-scares that make the original Amnesia: The Dark Descent such a memorable haunted house, and Machine for Pigs never really capitalizes on the feeling of vulnerability it creates. During the course of its six-hour campaign, I was immersed in an ever-growing sense of sheer dread the likes of which few games have ever been able to accomplish.
Where something like Outlast plays on real, tangible fears, that of those people and otherworldly things who mean to do us harm, Amnesia seems to psychoanalyze us and prey on the fears and regrets that cause restless nights of sleep. As always, you're more than welcome (encouraged, even) to hit the comments and tell us what we've missed and why you think it's important – just make sure it's a PC game coming out in 2013 or be ready to take your lumps.Of what I consider to be the two major, equally powerful pillars of horror, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs expertly delivers one.
Assuming Microsoft and/or Sony ship their updated hardware by the holidays, we could see some major launch titles shown at E3 in June, which might render our collection of 35 games (and 10 bonus mentions we're lukewarm about) incomplete.Īnd with that, we need to smack you with this obvious disclaimer: many interesting upcoming titles were excluded from our list, which is admittedly subjective and impossible to complete without adding everything due in 2013, but that would totally defeat the purpose of a "most anticipated" compilation.
It's an exciting year for gamers – not just because the industry has whipped up an appetizing menu of fresh releases, but because we're approaching the next console generation, which will inevitably come with interesting new software projects, and many of them are bound to hit PC.
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