Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition

Y'know how some games are like "so bad it's good"? Crap like Blood on the Sand, Deadly Premonition or that one where the President of the USA pilots a mech? Yeah, this is nothing like it. It's complete garbage. It's Cry of Fear with a vaguely racist Eastern European sense of humour. If you're as dumb as me to drop ten bucks on this then you want your head looking at. Are you thinking of buying it and making funny videos laughing over it? Don't bother, pick a game that isn't painful to play. If you want to experience it just wait until Lowtax or slowbeef put it on YouTube. I wouldn't even recommend this try-hard crap to someone I hated.

I was suckered. I was curious as to whether this game would be the B-movie trash fest the makers claim it to be.... It's not. Let's start with the voice actiing... Oh god, the voice acting. Not only is it obvious the actors recorded their lines over a cheap microphone setup, but you also don't understand what they're saying half the time. Sometimes their accents become too thick to decypher (the main character's especially) or for some baffling reason the volume drops to a whisper. And why must my character freeze in place every time he starts talking with a person? Must he devote all his intellectual and physical prowess just to hold a simple conversation? The AI isn't bad so much as very simple. Enemies just come running at you, spawning in from out of nowhere. (Think Aliens: Colonial Marines... better yet, don't) A few bright spots is that the gun play is all right, if nothing new, and the price isn't outrageous, although I'm probably not going to finish this game. Buyer beware. T...

I'm a huge fan of B-movies and cult media experiences - generally, the trashier the better. I was super excited about this game because it sounded like it was tailor-made for someone like me. That much is true for the content of the game (at least the half hour or so that I saw of it). The problem is that the game is almost unplayable. The sound quality is ridiculous; it sounds like the voices were recorded in one day over Skype. The soundtrack consists of one Midnight Syndicate track on a loop and a never-ending shuffle of footsteps, regardless of whether or not you're moving. There is no way to adjust settings in-game; you have to edit a file in order to re-map controls and the like. Most of the puzzles are solved by pressing up against random objects in the room until you pick up the one you're looking for. Overall, the mechanics foiled what was probably otherwise a funny, kitschy game.

I brought INTO THE DARK today and played for thirty three minutes after watching b-movies all morning and it was an eerie transition as i played INTO THE DARK feeling as i had gone from watching to being inside a b-movie. Love the atmosphere with the mix of seriousness and campy adult humor. The voice acting is great to hear because of its authentic natural sound instead of something that feels too polished and scripted. Kind of like the difference between raw VHS and shiny clean BLU-RAY quality. Music grabbed me by the throat and has not let go as soon as I heard the first notes at the intro scene. The amount of interaction with the environment was a welcomed unexpected surprise. Love the amount of detail of use with the health kits :D Thank you for INTO THE DARK and looking forward to your future work. Paying this little for something so great is a bit guilt inducing ha ha.

If Troma Studios were in the game making business, Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition would be a highlight of their oeuvre. Into the Dark encompasses everything a 'B' movie fan adores. If I had one wish, it would be that Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz experience a playthrough of this game and adapt it to the biggest small screen they could.

I got pretty far into the game. I really enjoyed the fps mechanics, it reminded me of the old doom games. Unfortanetly, that is all that really is working here. There is still some glitches, lighting issues, and some parts of the game just isn't quite working like they should. I did enjoy myself, but I don't think this game will be for everyone. If your looking for a game that will have some classic snes doom feel, with some light hearted humor, and a variety of monsters to unload clips on, then this could be something you would like. If none of the above interests you, then look elsewhere for money well spent.

I got the game on desura based on a let's play video, where the two guys just wanted to make fun of the game but then got so fascinated that they made a full series and played through the whole game. I know exactly what it is, I understand the spirit behind this sub genre and I enjoyed the game more than 90% of the games in my steam library. thats why I just bought it again and will give it another run asap, since I am sure I missed so many references and jokes during the first time. If you are not a fan of satire, black humor and bad taste jokes, you should probably stay away from this as you woulnd´t get the special charm. If you liked first person shooters that where a little rough around the edges back in the good old days and you can appreciate well made cheesyness and tons of funny little details you should give it a try!

really good scary game 10/10

Worst game ever. Love it. 10/10 would never play again.

Even with my limited time within the hands of Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition, I knew that I'd made a bad choice. Like B-Movies, some B-Tier games come in a couple of flavours - The first is a product made with heart. It's flawed, but you have fun because it's a pleasure to watch. The second is a cash in piece of nonsense, made by people who take one look at a genre of horror and want a piece of that pie. This game falls into the second catagory. Oh, how we chuckled as an image of a developer told me 'read the f***ing manual'. Oh, we giggled as I had to change any settings within the .ini file. Oh, how quickly I uninstalled the game as I tired of trying to navigate pitch black rooms with little to no sense as to where I was going. The voice acting is dreadful (more dreadful than my own), and sounds like it was recorded on a Nokia 3210. Avoid like the Plague.