Game review: Echo Night, Beyond

yes I know, this game is a year old, but I just bought it recently so I thought I would drop a review. I have stared at this game in Game stop for months, but I was always afraid to buy it as it is only $14.99 brand new... yikes, but I finally succumed to the allure of the beutiful packaging. The game is set in the year 2044, you and your fiancee are on a space trip when disaster strikes, and you crash into a sprawling moon base. After the haunting intro movie your character regains consciousness, only to find the shuttle empty and mangled and the residents of the moon base are all dead with only ghostly imprints of their former selves, you of course, must save the souls to find your lost love one. The best part of the game is the graphics, I mean the game is gorgious, with creepy hallways and great looking ghosts. But what is graphics without gameplay? Honestly, although not as frightening as games like RE4 and Silent Hill, the game is creepy, as you walk along you will hear a light break behind you, or a ghost hountingly calling out for a lost friend, yea, it geats unnerving. Unfortunately with all this atmosphere there is very little meat and potatoes, the game revolves around bringing items to ghosts in distress and clearing fog in rooms where evil ghosts reside to calm them. One very cool thing is the save rooms, in them there are monitors which allow you to prepare yourself for enemy encounters by looking at all the rooms in your area through cameras, the coolest part is that by finding little green areas in the rooms with the cameras you will unlock cutscenes that help you to unravel the cause of the deaths at the moonbase. In the end, this game is a bit repetitive but the fun of uncovering the secrets of the story makes you not care and the price point is incredible for this game, it gets an above average score but it is definently a buy for its price.
Final score: 7/10
The good: hearing the creaking of a monitor that was knocked loose
the bad: realizing that you have just done the same thing as you did in the last room
The ugly: running out of battery just when you are frantically running away from an enemyt ghost.

coming soon: The Matrix: Path Of Neo review