![]() Yes, this is that game written by Jessica Chobot, starring, basically, Jessica Chobot, and yes, it takes place in a mental asylum (aka "It was that or a mansion"). As of now, the game is slated for later this year on PC and early 2014 for PS4. Red Barrels, as a group, has quite the impressive pedigree with developers who worked on the Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and Uncharted. ![]() The devs took particular glee in explaining how well they are crafting Outlast to impose a sense of danger and uncertainty as well as the need to survive. The developers, knowing I was an old survival horror fan, regaled me with tales of people screaming, dropping the controller and one gentleman whose knees gave out, he was so startled by part of the demo. It called to mind the old Clock Tower games, which is something that resonates particularly well with me. Squeezing through corridors and climbing through air ducts had a genuinely foreboding feel to it, as you know any trouble will result in your desperate need to run and hide. It's rare to find a game which invokes the flight or fight response so early in gameplay. Scratching, whispering and voices all come through the headphones, making each step more difficult. The atmosphere has a nice creepiness to it, but it's the sound design that stands out in the game. In the hands-on demo, I needed to find a way into the asylum and begin my search for clues. Every few months yet another survival horror game was announced and after awhile the scariest thing about the genre was how similar the characters and plots were becoming. The funny thing is, as much as we lambast the shooter genre, there was a time when survival horror games reproduced like rabbits. ![]() The survival horror genre, as we all remember and love it, was launched into popularity by Shinji Mikami's Resident Evil franchise. With the prevalence of regenerating health, ammo supplies that would make Tony Montana jealous, and the general handholding of most games, many older gamers pine for the good old days of survival horror - not the action horror genre that has permeated the landscape but real survival horror. The FPS market is, in a word "crowded," leaving many gamers clamoring for something different. Some of his other recent projects and clients have included Huffington Post, Intel, GE, Harley Davidson, Simon and Schuster, Readers Digest, Time, Inc., ACC and various music videos including “Hooked Up” by James Wesley and “Strangest Christmas Yet” with the legendary Steve Martin. Since 2015, James has served on the Cinematography faculty at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts with an emphasis on digital cinematography and post workflow integration in production.These days, you can't swing a dead cat inside the Los Angeles Convention Center without hitting at least five or six competitive, online, first-person-shooters. He also served as Director of Photography on the Academy Award nominated feature film “Alone Yet Not Alone”, along with “Touched by Grace”, “For the Glory” and the film “Red Dirt Rising” (that he also Producer, Co-Directed and edited). Some of his recent projects included serving as Producer/Director on the feature film “Seven Days Till Midnight″ along with serving as the Director of Photography on the feature films “Shifting Gears” and “Rave Party Massacre”. James Suttles is a Producer, Director & Cinematographer striving to explore & contribute to the art of story telling through motion pictures with an emphasis on strong visual content and unique story structure. ![]() His equally varied television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect, as well as recurring roles on the NBC drama Heroes and the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as well as Saved by the Light, the legal drama Suits, and Fox’s The Finder. Demented (2000), National Security (2003), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Expendables (2010) and Inherent Vice (2014). In a career spanning over forty years, Roberts has amassed more than 400 credits, including Raggedy Man (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Specialist (1994), Cecil B. ![]() Roberts’ performance in Runaway Train (1985), as prison escapee Buck McGeehy, earned him a nomination for a third Golden Globe and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The Golden Globes again recognized him for his interpretation of Paul Snider in Bob Fosse’s Star 80 (1983). ERIC ROBERTS’ career began with a leading role in King of the Gypsies (1978), for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. ![]()
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