All of Our Friends are Dead (14.6Mb)
‘All of Our Friends are Dead’ is a 2D platform game with a horror theme. This game is unsuitable for children due to the graphic violence and blood and gore depicted.
Let me say to begin with the graphics and sound in All Of Our Friends Are Dead are designed at every possible point to unnerve you. The best use is made of black, white and red and it is best described as hell on earth, with raining blood, churned necks and mutilated white (and portrayed as half-naked) women cropping up very regularly, in fact, all too often. So, yes, this can be a bit of a heart-stopper, and though devoid of a storyline, it certainly isn’t devoid of meaning, with cryptic messages on billboards posted at many different points in the game. It’s a run-and-gun platformer replete with WASD/mouse combo, like, spliced with the end of the world. Yes it might look surreal and awkward throughout and the sound might seem an incoherent mess, but this is deliberate and out of the screams and garishness come animations and effects of real horror. This all adds to the sense of uneasiness the game portrays so well and leaves you feeling shaky and most ill at ease all of the time you are playing the game. Play it at the crack of midnight in the gloom on Halloween if you dare!
Gameplay is quite simple yet often difficult to accomplish accurately. You move left and right, and can jump as well. Jumping higher depends on how long you hold the button as well as whether or not you hit any accelerators to push you on even higher upwards. If you miss an aiming crosshair, just hit the backspace key and you’ll have one! The mouse controls aim, and clicking or holding the left mouse button will cause rapid fire. You have infinite ammo and can point anywhere, but this doesn't alleviate the fear at all. It only makes you feel more powerless when you are terrified, despite your seemingly overwhelming firepower. It feels quite strange that your gunfire only causes small animations and very limited sounds. For all of your firepower, you are left feeling weak and helpless against over-whelming odds, and the limited effect of your multi-shots, even though it doesn’t take that many shots to kill the enemies. But the enemies are elusive and often difficult to get a quick clean aim at. And those you don’t get first or second shot can come back and haunt you, with a vengeance !
You can quick save before pressing escape to have a quick reload from the save point, but you have to do the save manually which is a slight pain, especially as you might at the time be in all kinds of trouble! There’s a real sense of disorientation as you are never sure, apart from some vague hnts what you have to do to complete a level. The goal is to complete levels and complete the game.
Gameplay is a mix of intense platforming mixed with occasional forays of shooting. The level designs and enemies might well just freak you out! There are floating platforms with columns with human heads on top spitting out darts at you, menacing looking tentacles seething in the background from floating octopodes, and bees that will swarm around you. It looks like the very end of the Earth where your safety is anything but assured!
It pushes horror gameplay well beyond the point you might expect from retail horror games, and makes the stuff of nightmares come true, or might end up giving you nightmares afterwards as a result!
Being made with GM6, it’ll run as is in XP, but will need using a converter program from Yo-Yo games to get it to run in Vista and Win 7 found at http://wiki.yoyogames.com/index.php/Making_games_work_under_Windows_Vista
It’s a great horror platform game if you can get past the disturbing images it portrays. It may not be for everyone, but you’ll get some great (and very scary!) gameplay out of AOOFAD!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zPVAMoK-0
Video playthroughs/walkthroughs available on YouTube
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