Macintosh

The Forgotten: It Begins

So with all this praise, why only a 3 out of 5? Well, like in figure skating, the The Forgotten: It Begins was penalized for lack of difficulty. Tieraney and I played this game together, and we finished it in about three hours. That's unheard of these days. DreamCatcher explained in the press release that the game is marketed towards novice gamers, but even novice gamers will get through this in a shorter amount of time than it would take to download a walkthrough.

Even though I have been grousing about The Forgotten in this review, I don't want to give up on the game entirely. It's certainly an interesting and ambitious project, and I hope that the subsequent installments--provided they appear at reasonably short intervals--will overcome the limitations of the initial episode by offering cutting-edge graphics, increased depth of play, and more firmly drawn storyline. For now, however, the first episode is not so much a fully fledged game as a teaser, and a rather underwhelming one at that.