Разработчик: Homegrown Games
Описание
Expect the ultimate B-Movie Trash experience!
Don´t even dare to hope for state-of the art graphics, a proper balancing, professional voice acting or breathtaking script-writing. This here is 100% pure trash, an adventure / shooter hybrid with gazillions of bad jokes, dozens of pop culture references and a hidden, dense net of subversive, intelligent messages related to post-WWII-politics. Oh yes, you need a basic knowledge of pop culture to enjoy the game, and quite some education on politics to really love it, but who cares?
Far more important is:
We got boobies.
We got hookers.
We got Zombies.
We got Nazis.
We got even Nazi-Zombies!
You`re Peter "Pete" O`Brannon, a Private Eye. Sounds fascinating? It isn`t, trust me - unless you find it exciting to hunt down cheating husbands and lost dogs while living of cheap Chinese food in shabby motels. THAT would be what Petes job is all about - but luckily for him, he has a good customer paying his bills. It`s GlobalSecure Inc., one of the biggest insurance companies on the East Coast. More exactly, it`s Samantha "Sam" Miller who runs their investigation department on insurance fraud. She`s tough, she`s intelligent, she`s better than Pete. By far better. But due to the companies Code of Conduct and some very nasty ethic rules, she`s prevented from taking, erm, "semi-legal" steps to gain essential information and proofs. That`s where Pete steps in - for 500 bucks per day + expenses + a nice 20% share of the money the company saves with whatever Pete finds out.
Into the Dark is a playable B-Movie, a trash experience composed out of 60% humor, 30% horror and 10% technical flaws. Enjoy!
- 11 Levels of pure madness
- 15 different guns & weaponized items
- Soundtrack featuring Nox Arcana
- 67 puzzles
- 238 lovely clipping errors ²
- 35 sophisticated AI bugs ²
- Guaranteed minimum of 10 crashes when playing through the game! ²
- 168 additional glitches ²
- Play it as adventure, as shooter or as both!
- Explore the levels with your Oculus Rift Kit in VR!
- Optional Controller support (XboX and 360 Controllers work fine)
- Watch the full movie "Night of the living dead" ingame!
- Free Halloween Minigame - a new one each year!!
² just kidding. and trolling. and partially true.
Attention:
Windows 8 users: As Windows 8 treats DarkBasic applications quite strange upon demanding large chunks of memory, we officially don´t support it. We have ran through the game on several Windows 8 systems, we have reports of many players beating the game on Windows 8, but we CANNOT guarantee it works on your side. Buy on own risk and RUN THE INTOTHEDARK EXE AS ADMINISTRATOR WITH COMPATIBILITY MODE WINDOWS 7
Memory Issues:[/b] Into the Dark calls large chunks of your primary 1.85Gig memory block. You may have to turn off FRAPS and Skype to have a proper trash experience, and sometimes you will have to reload an autosave to clear the memory. Refer to the troubleshooting guide for more information!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 - Attention: Windows 8 MAY cause problems
- Processor: AMD Phenom 9550
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon 4800 or better (of course also NIVIDA)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 7 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible
- Additional Notes: At least 120 IQ points, full DirectX 9, .NET and ogg / wmv codecs
- OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 - Attention: Windows 8 may cause problems
- Processor: intel core i5 or better @3GHZ
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon 6800 or better (of course also NIVIDA)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Sound Card: DX9 compatible
- Additional Notes: At least 120 IQ points, full DirectX 9, .NET and ogg / wmv codecs
Отзывы пользователей
to say this game sucked is an understatement. Little to no comedy here, no options menu to change the controls, the sound. Not worth the $5 better off it was at least .99 cents.
Well, I guess it is my first time I had to score NOT RECOMMENDED, playing similar things for decades but this one just is Mission Impossible. I would like to have played it so as the story makes fun and there are some unique things but no. It starts with the bad key config, some functions I can change, some others not so have it hard coded and don't give semi options, useless! Then endless loading times on a mid end rig, caused by thousands of files instead of throwing all these into a GPR or similar. Quick save and load is available but not from the main menu so one has to reload the fixed save and go quick load and sure that the thing crashes so best ahead of becoming dead to quick load but quickly. The foes are unnatural hard to beat, some less some more but the difficulty along with the clumsy behavior of the player is all but not fair. Lotsa bug, lotsa obstacles be it software or ingame related. Final version is not good as still improvement is possible, trash edition is the right word and that fits well to this one may expect. Well, a few mispaid bucks for something what could be a good B Movie but this one does not reach it at all.
Game crashed more times than I could count, plenty of glitches and very bad hit detection (some things just instant kill you). In the end I just wanted to finish the game bc I paid for it.
I'm no stranger to bad games, but more often than not, I can enjoy a bad game because, at the very least, it's earnest in it's attempt to make something good. Even if it's a stuttering, rambling mess of ideas, I can appreciate that someone out there put in long, thankless hours to realise their vision.
Into The Dark hands you a buggy, ugly, frustrating mess, then slyly winks and says "Hey, what a piece of shit, huh?" It's not ingratiating, it's insulting.
This game is ugly, confusing, riddled with bugs and more besides. It plays like wading through thick sewage with no boots on, looks like the designer was actively TRYING to make your eyes bleed, and conducts itself with all the decorum of a drunk coal miner taking a dump on your coffee table. It's a bad joke, told for too long, costing too much, to an audience that deserved better.
Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
First things first. This game was meant as a B-game. Just like you would watch a B-movie and still enjoy it.
That out of the way I think the dev did a great job on a rather shitty engine. Even one of the most polished games I have seen on the GamerGuru engine.
Now the problem is , the game is mostly full of 80's jokes. People who are born after 90 won't even get the humor and jokes.
On another note, the voice acting is suited for this game, after all it's supposed to be trash and exploitation anyway. Hell, the guy even sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his early days :p
That leaves me with the conclusion that this game delivered what it promised. Maybe not at full price, but I had some fun with it. My only gripe would be that I couldn't see the cutscenes sometimes(but thats an engine issue). Same for the long loading times and occasional crashes.
Recommended.
I truly wanted to enjoy this game. I tried from the start no less than 15 times. There is little ammo, it takes 10 or so shots to kill creatures and appears there is no mapping to increase kills for headshots etc. The close in combat is slow and cumbersome and not worth trying. All in all it looks like a funny game and well done if you can run away from everything and avoid shooting or hitting anything at all costs. Not my cup of tea, I have retried the first 5 minutes too many times.
I enjoyed this game. Ya it crahes here an there. Got some glitches but nothing that could stop me from finishing the game. Found it quite funny an cool. Now just go back an collect the ach's I missed. Definitely Worth a play, grab it onsale :)
To be honest, I don't WANT to recommend this game, I will, mostly due to pride, but I really don't wanna. It's not worth the price tag, it's not that great. As a fellow FPSC developer, I loved the idea that a game made in my engine got some manner of "success" on steam. It's really funny, and really kitschy and indie, but that's about all this game has going for it. The graphics are bad in comparison to most other games (even most games in the price range), and the gameplay is nothing special besides a few semi-interesting puzzles. I recommend this only for those looking to see the technical limits of the FPSC engine in the "graphical" sense.
@the developer: You can be proud of squeezing so much out of such an underpowered rag, and creating a believable, well thought out tale, but when it comes to the artistic side of things (aesthetics of scenery, custom non-model pack media), or the actual "funness" of the game (number of moments where I'm smiling, unconcerned that I am playing a video game), it's nowhere near worth the price tag. Had this game been free, it would have been compared to all the other free games i've played, and I would've loved it, but being a 7$ game, It gets compared to other AWESOME games that I've payed 7$ for like chaser or E.Y.E. or Hover: Revolt of Gamers, thus shining a bad light on this game.
tl;dr: ok game, technically amazing for the game engine you used, but I would have preferred it to be free, even if it meant it was 1/4 the length. you could've definitely squeezed just as much humour and told the same story.
I have absolutly no idea what you lot are complaining about? The game is funny as f*%^ lots of interation, read the posters!!!! = funny lots of funny cometary really good story layout, this is actaually the hard part, being able to do voice overs isnt an easy job, im currently on level 2 and its already got me logging back in. thing is about games we always expect something like skyrim or ARK or eq2 you have to remember the amount of work a small or solo developer has to do to produce this kind of game. think what you like the game is funny and entetaining and sometimes makes you crap yourself ...gets my vote ! :)
The best jokes in this game are Ivan's Hints and the texts in the loading screens (imo).
I actually like the fact that it's this B-Movie kind of game, because, for a change, I feel like I could make a game myself. That's not a bad thing.
It basically has all a game needs:
- Levels
- Progression
- Puzzles
- A Start
- An End
- Purpose [more or less? :)]
- It even has a story even though games don't necessarily always need a story
[*]Jokes as an added BONUS (not all games have these)
All in all: boobs/10 would recommend
Can't wait for Into The Ice to get released
This was a most unfortunate impulse buy I made after taking the game's supposed hilarity at face value. The game, when it works, plays like a very hastily and poorly modded fps from saaaaaaaaaaaaay ten years ago? Twenty? I dunno. It's bad. But they have my money as well as the cash of all the poor peeps above and below me on the review list. So, at least someone somewhere is happy because of this game.
Pros:
-Short download time?
-You always hear your footsteps. This may not seem like a pro, but I list it here because the game a) doesn't have many/any pros and b) because I would like to attribute the never ending clunking boot on wood floor sound to the protagonist constantly dancing in place off screen. I'm choosing to imagine that this is the case rather than that it is just another example of horrible programming. Because I'm a glass half full kinda guy. And I have a massive imagination.
-Maybe the creator's finished off a house payment cause bought their game? Maybe they had a nice lunch? For two if they're supes a' dupes frugal? Maybe that cheapo twofer lunch turned in to a fruitful, marital relationship for them? Maybe you would have gotten into a car wreck or died horribly if you'd gone out and tried to do something worthwhile instead of taking the time to buy and download this game. That's right. It's a possiblity. If that was the case, this turd sandwich just saved your balogna grubbin' life. Totally plausible. I'm going to imagine that's the case so I can sleep at night with this still residing in my Steam library, mocking me with its existence, a constant reminder that I paid for it.
Cons:
-After purchasing it, you have to get someone else to buy it too or you'll die in seven days. Luckily, for you at least, this game has sucked out my will to live.
-Suuuuuuuupah buggy. And not in a funny or enjoyable way with craptacular renderings, objects comically going through walls due to poodoo collision, and other crazy visual effects that you can document and laugh at so much as an, "Oh, there's my desktop and an error message. Again." kinda way.
-Some settings require adjusting an .ini and the game tells you as much. Lollios in a box of lols, true believers.
-You pay for it. Like, this would be an okay game that somebody pops out for free as a means of getting their career up n' runnin' but ten daru is pricey for what plays like a buggy mod of 007: Goldeneye with improved graphics. Feel free to put quotation marks on "improved" if you're feelin' picky.
-Think of a con. Flip a coin. If it's heads, it has it. And my money. It totes has my monies regardless of which side of the coin you see.
-You feel like a failure after buying this game. A rube and a failure. With ten fewer dollars in your bank account. That you'll never have back. You coulda got a value meal at Wendy's, large and with all the fixin's, but nay. NAY! You fell for paltry advertising, you skimmed over descriptions, and totally failed to look up the background of an unknown game. You instead went all Fry meme style and said, "Take my money!" And they took it. Oh, they took it. And now you feel ashamed everytime you see this game listed in your library. Mocking you with it's lame achievements. You don't want your Steam friends to know you have it. Heck, you can't even complete the game just to feel like you used what you bought because it's a crashtacular crashmo with extra crash gravy on the side and crunchy crash chips on top. So, instead, you describe your failure in a review, putting your own purchasing experience in the third person so you don't have to consciously own what ya did.
-You waste, like, five minutes writing the game a bad review because it totes took ten dollars from you that you'll never get back and you're all butthurt over it.
Latest patches have improved game greatly, given us an options menu. Also, a friendly mutant taught me Latin.
Enemies are quite tough, but there isn't that many of them. (yet, anyway) There are enough health packs in the game, this is handled quite well by the game. It's different, quirky, and a heck of a lot of fun. If you're looking for another run and gun shooter, this isn't it. Very hard to categorize, a bit of adventure game, rpg, and of course FPS. Don't know why my time played is so low, it should be more like 5 -6 hours. I had some CTD problems with early version, latest seems rock solid. I did have one crash when changing levels, but it saved just before exiting level before, no problem.
Really, if you did have a crash and lost some progress, that would be a feature, as it would had to game replayability. ;)
This game is an odd little fellow: On the one hand, "Ultimate Trash" quite hits the mark, and expecting deep and extensive game mechanics is beyond its point. But on the other hand, you will find yourself having fun with all the side blows, hidden remarks and strange events you will be facing that it lets you discover. But be warned, half the fun is finding everything there is to find, and it certainly won't present all its beauty on a silver platter for the lazy CoD-Player to be consumed. And be to look up a *lot* of stuff on wikipedia when it comes to historical and/or political references. At least I had to, and the depth of several findings in there only revealed itself after getting to know the details of e.g. McCarthy era America or "Project Paperclip".
Don't expect a lot in graphics, it is sufficient and functional, no more. But the attention to detail the Devs put into every single room, every single table, yes even every single rack standing around is just astounding, and makes the world more alive in your head than any stunning graphics dazzler puts in their levels.
All in all, definitely not a game for everybody, but recommended nonetheless!
I'm a huge fan of B-movies and cult media experiences - generally, the trashier the better. I was super excited about this game because it sounded like it was tailor-made for someone like me. That much is true for the content of the game (at least the half hour or so that I saw of it). The problem is that the game is almost unplayable. The sound quality is ridiculous; it sounds like the voices were recorded in one day over Skype. The soundtrack consists of one Midnight Syndicate track on a loop and a never-ending shuffle of footsteps, regardless of whether or not you're moving. There is no way to adjust settings in-game; you have to edit a file in order to re-map controls and the like. Most of the puzzles are solved by pressing up against random objects in the room until you pick up the one you're looking for. Overall, the mechanics foiled what was probably otherwise a funny, kitschy game.
Blessed be Based-Ivan, I can now run this game at 175 fps.
This game isin't everyone's cup of tea. It dosen't have the best voice acting, the best graphics, the best level design, the best hit detection (for the player's weapons anyway), and it has a very particular sense of humor.
And that's it's biggest selling point, in my opinion too. It's dark, it's dirty, it resorts to obscure historical facts to try to maintain some sort of ground in science. I love it. I really-really do. And I'm also aware most other people will hate it. And they're justified in hating it, because it's not a product with alot of overall quality for the general consumer.
It's a niche game, for niche gamers, who have niche tastes in humor and don't mind being shot through walls on occasion*, who like to just stop playing and watch an easter egg (not about to spoil it) out of the blue and can enjoy a developer who actually cares about his game, to the point where he's offered save files to people on the community who complain about bugs and other issues.
*( I mean make no mistake, the game is functional and stable for the overwhleming majority. You've played AAA games with worse bug issues)
In short, this is not the best, might not even be a good game. But I fucking love it. And I know others who do too. Recommending this game to anyone I don't know is a gamble, but you know what they say: those who don't play, don't get to chainsaw zombie strippers, and don't get to look at victorian porn.
Even with my limited time within the hands of Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition, I knew that I'd made a bad choice. Like B-Movies, some B-Tier games come in a couple of flavours - The first is a product made with heart. It's flawed, but you have fun because it's a pleasure to watch. The second is a cash in piece of nonsense, made by people who take one look at a genre of horror and want a piece of that pie.
This game falls into the second catagory. Oh, how we chuckled as an image of a developer told me 'read the f***ing manual'. Oh, we giggled as I had to change any settings within the .ini file. Oh, how quickly I uninstalled the game as I tired of trying to navigate pitch black rooms with little to no sense as to where I was going.
The voice acting is dreadful (more dreadful than my own), and sounds like it was recorded on a Nokia 3210.
Avoid like the Plague.
If Troma Studios were in the game making business, Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition would be a highlight of their oeuvre. Into the Dark encompasses everything a 'B' movie fan adores. If I had one wish, it would be that Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz experience a playthrough of this game and adapt it to the biggest small screen they could.
I brought INTO THE DARK today and played for thirty three minutes after watching b-movies all morning and it was an eerie transition as i played INTO THE DARK feeling as i had gone from watching to being inside a b-movie.
Love the atmosphere with the mix of seriousness and campy adult humor. The voice acting is great to hear because of its authentic natural sound instead of something that feels too polished and scripted. Kind of like the difference between raw VHS and shiny clean BLU-RAY quality.
Music grabbed me by the throat and has not let go as soon as I heard the first notes at the intro scene.
The amount of interaction with the environment was a welcomed unexpected surprise. Love the amount of detail of use with the health kits :D
Thank you for INTO THE DARK and looking forward to your future work. Paying this little for something so great is a bit guilt inducing ha ha.
I was suckered. I was curious as to whether this game would be the B-movie trash fest the makers claim it to be.... It's not. Let's start with the voice actiing... Oh god, the voice acting. Not only is it obvious the actors recorded their lines over a cheap microphone setup, but you also don't understand what they're saying half the time. Sometimes their accents become too thick to decypher (the main character's especially) or for some baffling reason the volume drops to a whisper. And why must my character freeze in place every time he starts talking with a person? Must he devote all his intellectual and physical prowess just to hold a simple conversation?
The AI isn't bad so much as very simple. Enemies just come running at you, spawning in from out of nowhere. (Think Aliens: Colonial Marines... better yet, don't) A few bright spots is that the gun play is all right, if nothing new, and the price isn't outrageous, although I'm probably not going to finish this game.
Buyer beware. The makers of this game try to hide the flaws in their work under a paper-thin veneer of poor humor and an 'Oh, you're not meant to take it so seriously' frontage. Do not expect much from this product. Don't even expect an options menu (cause there is none, seriously).
Y'know how some games are like "so bad it's good"? Crap like Blood on the Sand, Deadly Premonition or that one where the President of the USA pilots a mech? Yeah, this is nothing like it.
It's complete garbage. It's Cry of Fear with a vaguely racist Eastern European sense of humour. If you're as dumb as me to drop ten bucks on this then you want your head looking at. Are you thinking of buying it and making funny videos laughing over it? Don't bother, pick a game that isn't painful to play. If you want to experience it just wait until Lowtax or slowbeef put it on YouTube.
I wouldn't even recommend this try-hard crap to someone I hated.
I got the game on desura based on a let's play video, where the two guys just wanted to make fun of the game but then got so fascinated that they made a full series and played through the whole game.
I know exactly what it is, I understand the spirit behind this sub genre and I enjoyed the game more than 90% of the games in my steam library.
thats why I just bought it again and will give it another run asap, since I am sure I missed so many references and jokes during the first time.
If you are not a fan of satire, black humor and bad taste jokes, you should probably stay away from this as you woulnd´t get the special charm.
If you liked first person shooters that where a little rough around the edges back in the good old days and you can appreciate well made cheesyness and tons of funny little details you should give it a try!
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| Разработчик | Homegrown Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 54% положительных (48) |