Dreamkiller – Review (PC)
Dreamkiller should have been called Mood Killer, because any anticipation and enthusiasm I had to play this game, based on the premise and the opening cinematic was snuffed out like a fat kid choking on a piece of Halloween candy. Dreamkiller isn’t the most horrible game I have ever played but it does have flaws.
Dreamkiller, is a first person shooter with an interesting concept, you play as a young woman named Alice Drake, who is a psychiatrist. Her special talent is to go inside the minds of her patients and do battle with the fears they are facing. Each level is a different case file for a patient, with enemies specific to that persons phobias, or so I thought. The first level has you dealing with Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. This is one of the most clichéd enemies to ever appear in a game, yet somehow, this one time, this one level it seems to makes sense.
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What doesn’t make sense is how these spiders and all of the enemies in this game just drop from thin air. This game doesn’t even bother to try to hide the enemy spawns inside of monster closets, they just let them appear in front of your face. Even that would be fine if the games frame rate didn’t drop to about 15 frames per second anytime more than 3 enemies are on the screen at once.
Oh and about the enemy choices making sense? That was thrown out the window on the second level. The second case file is the fear of over working, or as I like to call it, being lazy. As you enter this level your confronted by human enemies wearing lab coats and hard hats, and you guessed it, spiders. The developers of this game really love spiders because later in the same level, you fight half man half spider creatures, im not kidding.
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The level design is as generic as it comes, and the weapon selection is limited and bland. But there is a certain old school charm to the game, as it reminds you of some of the arcade shooters of yesteryear. The game comes with a few multiplayer variants, which will surely keep you busy once your done killing about a million spiders, and it does have a multitude of Steam achievements. If your looking to take out some frustration on arachnids, or arcade type first person shooters are your thing, you might want to check out the Dreamkiller, I give Dreamkiller a 6.5 out of 10
Dreamkiller
Publisher: Aspyr Media
Developer: Mindware Studios
MSRP: $29.99
Available Now: PC, Steam
Minimum:
OS: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 (Does not support Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT)
Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
Memory: XP – 1 GB RAM, Vista – 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 3.0 support | ATI: Radeon HD 2600 | Nvidia: Geforce 7600
DirectX®:
Hard Drive: 10.1 GB + 1 GB Swap File
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Supported Video Cards:
ATI RADEON HD 2600
ATI RADEON HD 2900
ATI RADEON HD 3850
ATI RADEON HD 3870
ATI RADEON HD 4850
ATI RADEON HD 4870
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7800
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7900
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800
NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600
NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800
NVIDIA GEFORCE 260
NVIDIA GEFORCE 280
Recommended:
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB 3D Hardware Accelerator Card | ATI: Radeon HD 3870 | Nvidia: Geforce 8800 GT
