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Obscure: The Aftermath | 
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| From: Ignition Entertainment Ltd
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 8923
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 00040
UPC: 893384000403
EAN: 0893384000403
ASIN: B000XPJ026
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Six different characters to play - each needing to contribute their unique abilities | | • | Survival horror game heavily influenced by teen horror movies | | • | Unique co-op mode where a friend can join in anytime | | • | Highly detailed, creepy environments | | • | Immersive soundtrack performed by the Boston Symphonic Orchestra and the Paris Opera Children's Choir |
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Product Description
What is the mystery of strange black flowers that have sprung up everywhere on campus? While experimenting with these flowers, you discover a dangerous substance that causes you to experience strange and vivid dreams. On a bad school trip, when the seeds finally germinate, you find out the horrible reality of the flowers. You have to stop a contagion while fighting a horde of mutants before it's too late. This game takes place two years after the gruesome events of the first game. You can choose from among six characters and one AI controlled sidekick, with each character having their own unique abilities. You can switch at different points in the game, and a friend can even join you at any time. Among the many available weapons, light is probably your best ally to keep the monsters at bay.
Vast variety of weapons and horrifying monsters Weapons include - a flashlight, baseball bat, flaregun, pistol, submachine gun, chainsaw, and dynamite Immersive soundtrack performed by the Boston Symphonic Orchestra and the Paris Opera Children's Choir
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Recommended for survival-horror fans and younger players October 29, 2008
The other reviews here are all accurate -- it's a decent game, and worth $10-$20, but that's about it. My first couple hours with the game were great. It looks good, sounds good, and had a promising set-up. I was psyched with what I saw and excited to find out where it was going. Unfortunately, it wasn't going anywhere. By the end of the first Boss battle, I thought I'd seen all there was to see, and I was right. The game doesn't get much more difficult or creepy, and there is no character development. The AI is surprisingly bad considering you MUST have two characters with you at all times. I had a horrible experience with weapon selection -- I can't count the number of times I armed my sidekick with a gun, only to see them whacking away with a golf club.
Still, I have to admit I enjoyed playing it to the end! It's an easy game. You will never throw your controller down in frustration, and the save points are well-placed and frequent. Although I didn't give a hoot about the overarching plot, I was always compelled to finish the chapter. It keeps you going in little spurts, which may be a blessing in disguise for this title... it's a great game to put down for awhile and pick back up again.
I recommend this to any survival-horror fan who wants a game to tide them over between Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Fatal Frame releases. Also recommended to anyone who may find those titles too scary or gory -- this is horror that would be appropriate for younger players.
Pros: Pacing, Ease, Save-Point Locations, Music, Graphics
Cons: Horrible Camera, Bad AI, Boring Story
 RESIDENT EVIL MEETS TEEN HORROR 7.75 OUT OF 10 October 27, 2008
When I played this game for the first twenty minutes, my impression of it wasn't exactly glowing. Crappy aiming, stupid camera, and incredibly awful dialogue threatened to spoil the whole experience. Then a miracle happened. The game became good and interesting. It was still frustrating, but it became fun. I think critics were a little quick to give this game crappy reviews. This isn't exactly a flawless game, and does its damndest to be like its fellow PS2 contemporary survival-horror game Resident Evil 4 (A game that's the definition of a flawless game). It certainly doesn't succeed in being like Resident Evil, but it's a decent game nonetheless.
WHAT THE GAME IS: A survival-horror title and the second entry of the Obscure games. The game's story is incredibly stupid along with the dialogue. It makes the old Resident Evil games look like Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Nomination material in comparison. A group of college kids are trying to forget their past memories during High School after it was massacred by a mysterious organism. Now everyone in the dorms of Fallcreek University is getting high on a new substance made from a black flower that causes horrific nightmares for hallucinations. When the group of kids decides to go to a party at another university the flowers bloom and kill or turn the college students into monsters. Now they have to escape and kill these monsters that are now invading the town. Great. A story about stoners saving their town from a flower. Brilliant!
GRAPHICS: Bleh. This game only came out this year, what the hell is this? A PS2 game shouldn't look like this! It looks like the original Obscure that I have for my old Xbox, and that game was made in 2004! Texture problems, the environments are too dark to see sometimes (It's like watching AVP: Requiem all over again), and the fact the environments get a little repetitive at times. This darkness problem gets annoying and can get you lost. I also noticed animation stutters and weird little glitches during gameplay.
MUSIC: This is the one area this game does better than Resident Evil 4. The music is fantastic and has a rather awesome haunting melody to it which adds to the creepy environments.
SOUND: Oh God, you're gonna want to strangle these people the moment you hear them speak. The dialogue is incredibly crappy. The actors suck, and don't make the plot sound serious at all (Even during tragic death scenes). They're disastrous, but then again they're trying to imitate stoners so they do kind of sound like them.
GAMEPLAY: This area is a mixed bag. I despised the shooting controls. Why the hell would you even bother implementing an over-the-shoulder view if you can only hope your dumbass character knows how to aim, because you can't aim for yourself. The bash-enemies-to-death gameplay worked fine and proved to be of more use most of the time. The chainsaw should only be used to cut logs apart, don't use it in combat. As much as I would have loved to go Doom-style on these ***holes, you can't. The stun gun also sucks too and is pointless. The gameplay is also hampered by the stupid camera because it can get in your way. I also didn't the fact you can't just go forward if your team member dies. You get six playable character with their own unique skills (Well, actually only three have special skills, the others just suck). When your team member dies you have to go back to your last save point. I got pissed at this because only need three of these people: The guy with strength, the guy who can jump high, and the Asian chick who can hack computers. After all these complaints how did this game receive a 7.75? Eventually you get used to some of these problems and I enjoyed solving the puzzles and finding things. Those are what managed to save the experience from the depths of disaster.
OVERALL: I'd recommend a rental first because this game is frustrating. But the puzzles, the music, the three interesting characters, the gore, and certain parts of the gameplay salvage the experience. As the psychologist character from South Park would say, "Drugs are bad, m'kay?"
THE GOOD: The fantastic music, the puzzles, the gore, the three characters with unique abilities, the creature designs, and other aspects of the gameplay.
THE BAD: Stupid camera, crappy gun controls, frustrating missions and deaths, and incredibly crappy dialogue and storyline.
Grand fun O.O September 23, 2008
I'm a huge fan of the survival horror genre, but it's very hard to find a good one because most seem to be so wrapped up in making things pop out at you they forget to put an ending or an actual storyline. Then when the ending is there, many times they try to cliffhang it and leave so many loose ends or just something entirely missing. Also many times the co-op is more like Player 1 and the disposable tag-along.
I'll start by saying that any Survival Horror Duo (like my friend and i, we usually switch off controllers, but in this case we could both play) or trio or quartet will likely enjoy the co-op mode in this. All the characters you play have their own special skills, so no ones useless or just fighting to move things around or open things for the most part. You can also change the camera to follow the other character with the R2 button, so if you need whoevers skill to open whatever high up off screen thing, you dont have to blind feel around for it even if the skill owner is player 2.
The characters themselves are a bit video game stereotypey, where the girls are all the smart hot college kids who have lots of sex and the majority of the guys are all the jock-ish athletics who are giving it to them. They gradually grow on you.
On the game itself, there are a few references and reminders of what happened in the first one, including survivors, but if you hadn't read up on the first one, it's a bit hazy. But the graphics are good, the music is very upbeat in some parts and spooky when it needs to be. The story itself is pretty clear throughout. Theres very few types of monsters though.
Neet!! September 22, 2008
This game was some what short but I got everything that I wanted out of it and I would not mind playing it again.
another fun trip with flower power at fallcreek university August 5, 2008
This is not as fun as the original but still glad they made it and hope for another one.
The game is fairly quick and can be completed within the span of a week or less.
Still very fun, I had a good time playing it. I only played the one for PS2 and I am sure that the one for WII was even funner than this.
This is good for a summer game and like the other reviewers said surprisenly good.
each game obscure one and obscure the aftermath, have a resident evil feel to them that is high school/college based which makes kind of interesting and fun
if you are either at leafmore high or fallcreek university you are sure to be in session for a good time
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