Indulge Your Taste For Horror!

Alive's BIGGEST ever game is coming....
Be prepared to be scared out of your mind because the master of interactive
horror - Roberta Williams - is coming to the Amiga in style.
So be prepared for a terrifying tale of a womans fight against the forces
of evil.... An unparalleled mixture of Hollywood techniques, combining
digital sound effects, computer rendered worlds and interactivity.
The whole game unfolds in chapters, like a novel, to reveal a frighteningly
realistic nightmare, from which you may never awaken.


As the Alive team are hard at work on the new Phantasmagoria web site,
I thought it best if we gave you some questions and answers.

What are the Requirements for Phantasm?
No definate answer as yet, but I can confirm it will be no less than '040.
If you have a look at pic6 you'll see that you can reduce the screen size
when the game goes into full motion video, then when you go back into the
actual game it will automatically default back to full-screen. We will
support PPC and all graphics cards.

Is this an Interactive Video game?
No.  The entire game is a mixture of 3d and hand-drawn graphics, with a
healthy dose of video footage incorporated into the graphics. For example,
you may be in a 3d rendered room, with computer animations, and a video
footage sequence of the actors laid over the graphics. At the beginning
and end of each of the seven chapters, you watch a breathtaking sequence
giving you the next stage in the story. Again, these are not just film
sequences, they are high quality graphics incorporated with realtime full
motion video.

The actual game plays in a point and click fashion similar to the likes of
Simon the Sorceror.  You have an inventory box on view, and you move your
pointer over certain objects in the room, some of which you can examine,
collect or use.

Are the sreen shots from the actual game?
Yes, all of the screen shots previewed  in this email are taken from the
game, except Pic6, which is from a cut sequence.

How many CDs is Phant on and when will it be out?
This is a tricky one.  We are considering releasing Phantasmagoria in
chapters over 7 months.  The game itself is on 7 cd's.
We may well just release the whole thing at once, but if the demand is
anywhere near the response we've had so far, then we may well not be able
to cope with the duplication - we'll just have to wait and see. The good
news is, we are not too far from completion now - 95% complete.

Is this game as big as Alive are making out?
NO.  In fact it's even bigger - we're just being modest! To give you an
idea of the scale of the game,  consider this... Several months in a
hollywood studio were spent in filming the actors. The soundtracks was
composed and procuded with a full orchaestra, and a complete operatic
choir were enlisted for the ghostly singing. The script for the actors
was over 500 pages long, and the writers spent 6 months doing historical
research to ensure that everything about the game was from the correct
period and fitted in with the ancient Carnovasch mansion.  Many
artifacts seen in the game were actually on lone from various museums
in America, to ensure that Phantasmagoria is perfect in  every way
possible - even historically.
More details of the making of this game will be out soon, but you will
already be building a picture for yourselves of the enourmosity of this
game. This truely is the biggest budget game the Amiga has ever seen.

Doesthis game really deserve the 18 rating or is this just hype?
Right lets get one thing staight.  We're not messing around when we
stress that this is an adult game - and neither were Australia when
they banned it outright, or America when they cut many scenes from it
to bring it down to their 18 certificate. This is the computer game
version of The Exorcist. If your stomachs strong enough then you'll be
glad to hear that the Amiga version is the complete directors cut of
the game with all scenes left in tact.
The box features a huge warning, which we strongly suggest you take
seriously.

What to look out for....

February will see the next issue of The Pulse hitting your doorsteps
(issue 11).
This exciting issue features an exclusive interview with the best selling
author and creator or Phantasmagoria - Roberta Williams.

There will also be a colour glossy flyers out soon giving Pulse
subscribers the opportunity to pre-order.

On the CDcatalogue 1.6 there is a world exclusive trailer of the game.
Alive are currently working  on a demo.

Price is yet to be confirmed, but you will be kept posted.


Just click on entire thumbnails to obtain bigger images. Enjoy.

      

      

    


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