Scenes from Pathologic #1 (Extended, with sound) - Intro
43"The essence of the game is a trap."
(Excerpt from Pathologic's official website)
Inspired as it is by the novel "The Plague" by French existent-ialist writer Albert Camus and employing startling alienation effects that would make German dramatist Bertold Brecht wet his pants, it's certainly no exaggeration to say that Russian developer Ice Pick Lodge's 2005 adventure/survival horror title "Pathologic" is one of the most cerebral and mind-bogglingly ambitious computer games ever produced.
However, the relentlessly grim atmosphere, slow pacing and repetitive, unforgiving nature of the actual gameplay is not going to charm everyone and, sadly, the game's complex Russian script (apparently very impressive in it's original form) has been butchered in an extremely poor English translation.
Nonetheless, I'm going to try to play "Pathologic" and upload a few videos now and then (by no means a complete playthrough), so that more people can find out about this intriguing and totally unique game. Please make sure to switch to YouTube's high quality mode if you want to be able to read the text (or better yet, visit my GameVee page instead).
More Pathologic videos are available at;
http://www.gamevee.com/user/Demiath/videos
A review by John Walker from Eurogamer:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=67124
A collection of well-written articles by Quintin Smith:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/10/butchering-pathologic-part-1-the-body/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/11/butchering-pathologic-part-2-the-mind/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/12/butchering-pathologic-part-3-the-soul/
Pathologic's official website:
http://www.pathologic-game.com
An interesting in-game video with developer's commentary:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/7283.html
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