Outlast

[Adrianis]

Thanks Alex, that was a helpful review, pretty much confirmed what I was afraid of. I think I'll get it much later on, only really to see how well they did the 'first person body model', as another review talked about how well they did that, I'm interested to see it. Like you I really don't care for asylum/hospital horror with medical experiments etc etc etc, its such a burned out concept.

Sounds like they had a great team of artists & programmers but no one with creative control that had any interesting ideas, such a shame.



As a side note, have to disagree with this

Surely, most of such a big visual impression was provided by engine alone

The engine alone can't just make stuff look good, it can only define a kind of 'capacity' for how good something can look, i.e. how good it's lighting model is, how it performs when using dynamic lights & complex shaders etc. Its totally up to the artists to make it look good, they deserve all the credit