Don't know if any you are aware of this game, but I think it's one that could turn out to be quite good. It first got my attention when I saw a demonstration of the game in this year's E3 Access DVDs, and now that I've had the chance to play the demo, I think I'll be picking it up.

Here's Gamespot's take on the game;

Personally I think it sounds like a winner.
As for my hands-on with the (very) short demo - I found it intriguing. As the game starts, you're inside a dinner's toilet where you've just stabbed a man to death. You don't know why you've done it and can't remember doing it... Now here's where it gets interesting. You have quite a few options and depending on which one you take, that's the way the story will unfold. The character is covered in blood and the body is in the middle of the toilets - what to do? Run out? Clean the place up?
First thing I did was to hide the body and clean myself up, which makes Lucas' "sane metre" go up. As I'm about to walk out the dinner lady, who's standing next to a Cop, calls out to me. At this point I think there's something on me that gave me away - but lucky she's just reminding me about paying my bill. I walked out of the dinner with no problems... until the Cop gets up to go to the toilet. As he walks in he sees the blood stains and knife I forgot to clean up. He then comes out and tells everyone to stay where they are as there's been a crime commited. How do I know this if I've left the dinner? The game goes into a 24-esque screen split that shows both your screen and what's happening elsewhere. Very cool! After that, you need to get out of the area before police arrive.

On my 2nd try I decided to leave everything as it was and walk out of the toilet. Not smart. Everyone sees I'm covered in blood so I bolt out the fire exit. The cop finds the body and the police is called in. I decided to hang around the area to see what happens - which ended in the police finding me and arresting me. Duh.

There's other things you can do, so if you can play the demo I highly recommend it. I seriously believe this game has potential, so keep an eye out.

Been chatting to David Wildgoose about this. For those who don't read PCPP he was editor up until the most recent issue where he left work for Atari's press PA department so its important to realise he has a vested interest in selling this game but here is what he said to me when I emailed him bugging him for a release date...

David is yet to steer me wrong in a game and despite our occasional disagreements (Metroid Prime being the biggest bone of contention between us) I trust his word when it comes to games.

So this is on my must have list, especially after playing the incredibly moody demo.

Is this game also called Fahrenheit? It looks and sounds very similar to the previews I was reading on Eurogamer.

EDIT: Uh... I just saw the subtitle of the thread... :whistling:

So there is a name change for PAL regions, (hate it when that happens), I'll be keeping my eye on this one, looks interesting.

I prefer Indigo Prophecy as "Fahrenheit" reminds me of "Fahrenheit 9/11".... ;)

Just reading that is making me go download the demo now.

Also pretty interested in all the consequences that can occur.

Off Topic: Sad to hear Wildgoose go from PCPP, so who's editor now... haven't been able to get copy of PCPP in a while

Timothy C Best is the new PCPP editor and has done a great job with the most recent issue. PC Powerplay is in good hands.

Just played the demo, awsome stuff. None of metioned that this is being made by quantic dream creator of the awsome "The Nomad Soul" you know the game with David Bowie in it. Knowing that would of made giddy like a school girl before hand but thats okay cause I am now.

And "good hands" means you've still got a job doesn't it?

Puh-lease... real fans call it by its real name... Omnikron :P

Pointless info about that game... Bowie was so impressed with his soundtrack work on that game he would eventually release the game soundtrack as a standalone album called "The Hours".

And yes... good hands means I still write for PCPP ;)

Incidently fantastic choice of sig image... I wont go so hardcore as to name the page number but I will say I own the Doll's House and I know that exact panel... it was the page that panel appears on that made me make use of the phrase 'peachy keen' as part of my dialect. :D

Everyone loves Sandman. :D

I've seen some footage on BBC (of all places! :P ) the other day. It looked great, there was this demo of a guy running through an office with huge giant parasite-looking monsters chasing him and blocking his path. Looked awesome.

I need a decent plot driven game now that Snake Eater is completed and GTA:SA is no longer as fun as it used to be. :( Nice thread btw Civ. Keep us updated. :thumbsup:

Will do.

I'm now deciding whether to get the game on PC or Xbox. The graphics aren't crash hot, so I'm thinking the console version will look worse than the PC one.

There is a definate attractive style to the graphics even though the engine is hardly what one would call bleeding edge. Cranked up as high as it will go with FSAA and AF on max it is quite appealing visually.

Having said that the control set up has obviously been designed with a console in mind. I might still go with the PC version but play it with the Xbox controller plugged into my USB port. I've yet to try that on the demo but that will be the deciding factor, if my gamepad works with the PC version of the game well enough then its PC for me... otherwise I may be looking at the Xbox version.

Yeah the game looks best played with a controller.

Shit. I wanted to play the game with my shoe.

PLEASE explain!

:P

So there's three characters. Two detectives and Lucas. And the point is you are forced to hunt yourself. As the detectives must find evidence Lucas left behind and as Lucas you must besure to leave no trace for the detectives?

It will certainly make for a confusing game - if you are doing it right you will collect the clues, but if you are doing it wrong, the murderer will escape - in which case you are doing it right. It's still is going to be one hell of a ride though. Can't wait.

Game Informer scans:

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Wait, why is it called Farenheit in Europe? Shouldn't it be Celcius? :P

I was refering to elprez's statement about the PC version, i.e. he mentioned playing the PC version using an Xbox controller :P .

It does sound very good. I saw the demo on the E3 access dvd which goes through the diner/bathroom scene and 2 alternative scenarios.

I'm hoping that the level of interaction, choice and consequence remains as high as in the demo throughout the whole game. I don't want there to be too much "filler" to make the game feel as long as we expect these days. I think it should stay short and allow for you to play through it numerous times without thinking "oh not this crappy ice skaing/basketball/guitar playing scene again."

I'm pretty sure that any fight scenes are going to feel a bit weak as well. The key seems to be the scenarios where you either leave clues or search for clues. Maybe there'll be a decent sized cast of characters who can help you with their expertise, whether it be friends of the suspected murder, or forensic scientists, or specialist cops, whatever. Hopefully you won't be forced to gain acceptance from contacts by running fetch quests for them. As few videogame conventions as possible would be great.

It sounds about as interactive and non linear as anything I've seen before. I really can't stand going through different dialogue choices with people a lot of the time as you find in morrowind and jade empire, so I don't mind if they leave that sort of thing out. The ideal for me would be meet the right person, tell them what you know automatically, and get the best response first time. The choice should be in what you do rather than what you say.

Definately something to keep an eye on.

Reviews are starting to come in, which is surprising because I thought it'd be a few more months before the game was complete :S

The things being criticised are the action sequences, a few minor plot holes and some minor camera issues. Apparently they've adopted the shenmue style of hitting the right button at the right time for action sequences, in lue of going for a combat engine. Much of the gameplay is selecting a response to an NPC, and rather than select a full sentance like in KOTOR or Jade Empire, you simply choose "lie," "truth," and so on. You have some control over conversation pathways but unfortunately they do not affect the story as much as I was hoping for.

Seems like not all of the choices you make will have a bearing on the story pathways, but people will still like to restart at a save point and try things differently just to see what happens. Going for branching stories at every scene from the 50 or so available would have been impossible, especially given that they had to change publisher part way through development.

I think theres going to be enough problems with it to make me sure that I won't be buying it. Limited budget and development time means that action sequences had to be streamlined, and the level of consequence sounds like its not as high as I was expecting.

A lot of people will like it though. Its not so much role playing as it is a choose your own adventure game, and people looking for something new with a great story might like it.

You're spot on. It isn't an RPG. It is an adventure game nothing more.

Well Wildgoose gave me the thumbs up on the build he is playing so I'm there.

I'm not going to trust reviews that are out, considering the game isn't finished yet...
But I'll buy it regardless of reviews methinks.

I installled the demo last night and it's blown me away. I just wish the demo were longer. It's great, the first time I spent too long seeing what I could do in the bathroom, I checked the window, had a look at myself in the mirror, washed my hands, dried them, hid the body, mopped up the blood and just as I was about to ditch the weapon the cop got up from his seat. So I bolted, and as I ran out the door the woman complained that I hadn't paid my bill (this was after I was already out the door) I then quickly ran around like a goose with my head cut off trying to figure out where to go, tried running down a street only to be told that I couldn't walk home. Finally I found a taxi and got away.

Then, on my next play through I hid the body, mopped up the blood, washed my hands and hid the weapon (and the camera moved away from the scene while I was doing it, which I can only assume is for the benefit of when you're playing the game with one of the detectives), then left the bathroom, and tried to figure out how I pay my bill. I sat at the bench, spoke to the woman who commented on how white I looked and then watched the weather report, finding this wasn't the solution I got back up and decided to see what would happen if I spoke to a couple of randoms, I even decided to push my luck and talk to the cop, who commented that I should refresh myself in the bathroom because I look shaken up after I mumbled about how 'it wasn't me' and that I'm 'innocent'. I got enough time in to turn on the jukebox which was beneficial to my mental stability and decided to leave, at which point I had the same thing happen to me as Civ mentioned, so I apologised and went and payed the bill, now realising how. The cop got up and I quickly got out of the diner and grabbed the taxi again, figuring it was my only way out of the area.

I then decided to try again, I did the same sequences of things in the bathroom and then went out into the diner and sat at my table, paid the bill, ate some food and had a drink, which helped bring my status to 'tense'. I then went out the backway, exited the alley and noticed a subway entrance, which I decided to see if I could take, and yup, it was yet another way out. :D

Finally I tried again, this time wanting to see what would happen if I just bolted out of the place, I exited the bathroom and immediately a sequence opened up where I bumped straight into the waitress who screamed, the cop got up and asked what was wrong as I quickly rushed out the back. With the cop checking the crime scene after he had been told I'd just come out of the men's room I took my time to see if that mysterious bum was in the alley, sure enough there he was. I got enough time in to take a look at him which merely brought forth the comment from the character 'hmm, he looks homeless' and I then took the subway out again.

Bottom line. Fahrenheit looks brilliant and I'll definitely be picking it up, it's released this Friday. :D

I'd love to get this game and F.E.A.R. but my computer has these issues where it won't play games and just crashes to desktop. The graphics card probably isn't good enough anyway.

You have a PS2, don't you Suity? You could always get Fahrenheit for that. :D

I cant believe its coming out so soon? Especially since there hasnt been any reviews, except for one I think. So is this one of those PAL release before NTSC games?

Wow, I'm very keen for this after reading what you guys have been saying about it. I remember reading about it ages ago and thinking it would be cool. But I had forgotten all about it until reading Hyper's review. So this Friday ey? There goes my weekend :D

Only concern I have is the PS2 loading times. I found Broken Sword almost unplayable having to wait a minute and a half for each scene to load. Drove me insane. Hope this is better.

Oh it's coming out on PS2 is it? I thought it was only Xbox and PC. Well I may have to pick it up, perhaps at a later date though, I've got to many other games I already want.

How will the PS2 handle this game though? Any reviews of it on that format?

The average score on MetaCritic has been 90 out of 100. Though this is only based on 3 reviews so far. All of which gave the same score, Hyper gave it 93 if anyone's interested.

If the PC/PS2 price is anywhere around the $50 mark (PC games usually go quite low quickly). I'll surely be picking this up

Some various comments from MetaCritic:

"Probably the most enjoyable, forward-looking and thoughtful piece of videogaming we've played in this or in any year. We never thought we'd say this, but it's a real step forward for the adventure game genre."

"Easily a contender for game of the year and, potentially, the last great piece of original gaming left for current-gen Xbox owners to discover."

"Fahrenheit heralds the renaissance in adventure games. The puzzles are logical and use common sense. The cinematic feeling, excellent voice acting, gripping action sequences and excellent audiovisual elements complement the tightly woven plot. The story and scene’s change according to the players choices and actions, which has often been talked about, but rarely implemented as well as in Fahrenheit. The game proves that adventure games are not dead, they just needed to find a way to adjust."

edit: Hmm, the american NTSC PS2 version is only $52. Though it'd cost me $12 to ship it over here.

So if the NTSC version is coming out now as well, where is Gamespot's review? or IGN's?

I'm sure the game will be reviewed this week, or shortly there after. I'm also still debating whether to get this on PC or Xbox... I heard the game's controls are mosre suited to consoles.

I'd imagine so, walking around with the keyboard is an absolute pain. The context sensitive mouse movements are fine though.

I'll probably be getting the PS2 version of the game but for all of you who prefer playing on PC I've got one word for you: SmartJoy.

Keyboard & Mouse > Gamepads

I've got a Smartjoy and a Xbox>USB converter, and the only thing I've used them for is playing old SNES and N64 games. :P

Take your stupidity elsewhere. Fahrenheit does not play well with others when given a mouse and keyboard.

I find that playing 3rd person action/adventure games (excluding RPG's) on PC with the M/KB is not fun. A pad is the way to go play for me.
For everything else of course (FPS, RTS etc), the M/KB combination is best.

We have already had this discussion :P

Well mouse control owns over joystick, and most 3rd person games(unless they are lame ones that use locking systems) I find to be significantly easier with a mouse.

Play well with others?

You have got to stop that "i am l33+" thing you have going on. It's a lame excuse. Imagine playing a 3rd person platformer WHERE YOU DON'T ALWAYS SHOOT THINGS! with a KB/M combination. Like play Mario with a mouse! Thats impossible. And from what I've read, Farhenheit is not all shooting.

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It can definetely vary from title to title.

For instance, Max Payne would be better with keyboard and mouse, but a game like Splinter Cell would be better with controller.