Review and evaluation The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Studio Supermassive Games brings us a new experience with the interactive horror game The Dark Pictures Anthology, which we will get through several separate episodes events. The first of these episodes is Man of Medan.

Man of Medan is a dramatic horror game about a number of curious teens (or you will determine it) who are preparing to go on a recreational expedition in a spot in the Pacific Ocean, but as the saying goes, winds do not crave ships and this is what happened Indeed, with this group of young men who were driven by the winds of their ship to the Pacific Ocean to find themselves in front of a deserted warship in the ocean is inhabited only by the ghosts.

The style of play will be similar to the style of the game until Dawn, where the game will put you in front of the system of options will affect the course of events, but the system here differed Bhadh something where it became like a compass that will put you in front of two options only and you have to choose one before the end of the time, which may vary with the type of choice, some of them You will have to choose perhaps without thinking and some will give you enough time to decide which to choose, but remember may be based on this decision different dramatic events.

The game is cinematic in its style, although it will give you a chance to control the characters and direct them, but it focuses heavily on the moments that put you either choose the answer besides the presence of many cinematic moments require you to focus heavily in it, because you may fall into ambush QTE movements that require you to press several buttons At the right moment, it will cause a small mistake, but it will dramatically change the course of events.

The game offers an interactive cinematic gaming experience so you may find some boredom during your control by moving one of the characters that will move between them depending on the course of events, but unfortunately faced a lot of difficulty in controlling them, especially the changes in the camera's continuous angle, which will change with the way of guidance and moving the character and frankly were One of the most annoying things in the game.

Also you will notice that the game depends on the element of surprise during the control of any of the characters and frankly I see that this style has become exposed and vulgar, but unfortunately the game focused on it clearly, where you put in front of the awesome short moments during which the loud music is exploited to show you one of the ghost that disappears without any Interact with you, something very annoying ..

The possibility of playing the game with a different characters after you finish for the first time is a relatively new and beautiful idea of ​​this type of games, but the game should have provided fewer characters and more vivid because each character was lacking human sense to some extent the story was not as distinctive as I expected and was rather traditional . As a player who is afraid of horror games, the game did not make me tremble, not even once, except in those short surprise moments that frighten you even if you know its existence.

The game has a repetition factor and you will be able to play it several times but this will do if you really like the game and want to explore the story completely, sometimes when you get to the stage of excitement and the music begins to interact with you the game takes you to another place altogether and here the adrenaline comes back to the starting point and this It's a pity.

Fortunately the game was well supported Arabic and this will contribute to your enjoyment in the game significantly, especially since it depends on the decision system where you will be able to recognize your decision and choice in a wise way.

The graphics of the game are good and give a great cinematic experience as we are used to in Supermassive studio games where characters and animation system were presented, but I noticed the presence of technical problems, especially at the moment of transition between the scenes and the style of play, although the quality of the graphics does not change, but there were moments Like cutting or falling frame rate and this problem was found in the version of the PlayStation 4 and I do not know whether they exist in the version of other platforms, but they were very annoying and frequent too much.

Man of Medan will also provide you with the opportunity to see the characteristics of each character and how to develop with your decisions and also develop the relationship with other characters and through which you can build your decisions on them and this helps you a lot in determining your decisions with each character according to this relationship and will contribute perhaps In your arrival to the best end so I advise you to look at these lists and identify the indicators and the relationship that links the characters together and also there are secrets you will discover will contribute to facilitate you to know some of the events of the game.

Positives

• An interactive experience full of drama

• The world of the game is dark and very suitable to enter you in the atmosphere of the game

• The use of sounds in the game in a terrifying way will make you jump sometimes from your seat

• The chance to re-play and try other high choices

• Good game graphics make you feel cinematic

Negatives

• The control and movement of the camera is very annoying

• Technical problems, especially in cinematic scenes

• The story of the game is consumed

Final evaluation

Story - 6

Play style - 7

Graphics - 8

Sounds - 7

7.5

very good

In the end Man of Medan provided an interesting experience and all fans of this type of interactive cinema games should have a chance to try this game, but compared to the previous studio game Until Dawn, I think it did not outweigh them.