Released back in 2005, Fahrenheit is a game made by Quantic Studios and published by Atari. Quantic Studios is also the maker of the PS 3 exclusive "Heavy Rain". If you've been asking yourselves what's with all the PS 3 exclusives coming out recently.. well.. Sony has to sell their consoles somehow, right? And if the console sucks at least the games should be good enough to get us to buy it.
OK, I'll talk more about Sony in another post. Right now, my concern is Fahrenheit. The game is about a man who murdered someone in the bathroom of a restaurant. OK, so what's with that?, you'd ask, but wait, there's more. Apparently the killer was in some sort of trance and didn't commit the murder voluntarily. So he becomes a fugitive from the police and he tries to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, two detectives are trying to catch him and make him pay for his crimes. Of course, things will change as the story progresses, but I won't say anymore because I really don't want to spoil the story. It's a great game and it's worth playing it, so go ahead and play it if you haven't yet. I've got one little problem though. Indigo Prophecy?! That's the american title. Of course there's an Indigo child involved and the colors Orange and Purple as well.. wait.. Orange + Purple = Indigo? Now that's some logic!!
OK, onto serious things now. Graphics. Well, for 2005, the game has decent graphics. The characters are well designed, as well as the backgrounds and the rest of the surroundings.
The gameplay. Well, this is where things get fucked up. I suggest changing the controls because I personally can't beat the key pressing sequences (and the game IS FULL OF THEM) by pressing the arrow keys and the keys on the numpad. It's just impossible. I guess the W,A,S,D scheme for controlling your character wasn't popular back then. Oh, well, I replaced the arrow keys with W,A,S,D and the numpad keys with the arrow keys and I managed to do the sequences properly.
OK, I got heated up again, so let's get things straight. First of all, you control four different characters in this game. Two of them only a bit and two of them in the most part of the game. The controls are simple. You move around using the arrow keys (or W,A,S,D if you change your keys like I did). A few actions appear on top of the screen when available and you have to drag your mouse accordingly in order to select them. So far so good. The game consists of a lot of action sequences which involve... pressing the right keys at the right time and sometimes really fast. They're fun for a while, but then they get annoying.
Watch the picture above. 1 and 2 are the circles that show which keys to press. The first circle means the arrow keys (or in my case WASD). The second one means the numpad (or in my case the arrow keys). When one of those rectangles light up you need to press the corresponding key. In this case, the left rectangle from the left circle lightened up, so I would press A and you, provided you didn't change the keys, the LEFT arrow. Of course, these rectangles will light up real fast and thus you'll have to train your fingers really hard to get all the sequences right. Oh, yes, and number 3 on the picture is your life bar. You can find lives through the game, so no problem with that. There are other sequences as well, where you have to tap the left and right keys alternatively in order to keep balance or, when playing as the female detective, to breathe in order to avoid getting scared (she's claustrophobic).
I almost forgot. If you get your hands on the uncensored version, get ready 'cause there's a sex scene in which YOU control the character. You know, for the kids. Thanks David Cage. We really needed that.
The soundtrack is amazing. I liked the epic music they played while I had to concentrate on what keys to press. Overall, the whole soundtrack is great and it blends really well with the game.
My overall opinion is that, besides a few cliffhangers and the game getting repetitive with its action sequences, Fahrenheit is a great game. Even if it was released in 2005, it's way better than some of the games released nowadays. Fahrenheit also has that bit of Sci-Fi that you can't get rid of in games released recently. But that's not an impediment, because the way the Sci-Fi is integrated in the game makes it up for it.
GRAPHICS: 9/10
STORY: 9/10
GAMEPLAY: 8.5/10
SOUNDTRACK: 9.5/10
OVERALL: 9/10
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