Penumbra: Overture

K. Fields
2014-01-26T16:04:39-05:00
Video Games

I started playing The Penumbra Collection from Frictional Games. The first chapter in the series is Penumbra: Overture. After playing for a couple of weeks, I just finished it last Friday. Penumbra is a survival horror game with a physics engine that affects both puzzles and combat. The best part of the game was the creepy atmosphere. It made good use of sound and music to set a mood of suspense and even fright. The combat, on the other hand, was not my favorite part of the game. My first encounter with a rabid dog was terrifying. After killing many of them, it became tedious and not very frightening. As expected, Overture ended on a cliffhanger, which sets up chapter two, Penumbra: Black Plague. Instead of taking a break from Penumbra, I decided to begin playing Black Plague immediately.