Funny how i was just randomly on this Amiga fansite that has all these different trailers from games a lot of us have long forgotten and many more have never even heard of... Well, after i watched all the Psygnosis glory i could handle for 20 minutes or so I noticed an entry for a game called Another World... font... strangely familiar... colors... curiously nostalgic. NO WAY! Instantly i am transported back to the day that i walk into my local Egghead Software store and see the most engaging display of cinematic gameplay ever witnessed by my 16 year old eyes.... Out of this world... yeah, exactly what i was thinking...

If anybody reading this remembers playing the very early Sierra text adventures that barely had 16 colors on screen at a time and later replayed the same game with eye-popping 256 color VGA artwork... you can understand the unexpected wash of joy and renewed wonderment that i just experienced. Eric Chahi has done the completely unbelievable... updated his classic in such a way that we can not only replay the game, but relive that feeling of seeing rotoscoped animation for the first time just like all of us did at some point in front of our dinky (by today's standards) 15 inch vga monitors... Yeah, i love this game... even as mind numbingly frustrated as it made me, the game made you feel that you were that red haired polygonal version of rick astley running for his life from some undefinable mass of black racing after you with saliva flying in gobs of his elongated fangs... okay maybe there wasn't exactly that much detail but that may also be one the best parts of this game, like a great novel that keeps you turning page after page, Out of this World gave you just enough meat in story, gameplay, mood, etc that your imagination would very often take over and try to create it's own version of just what the hell was going on, and more importantly what would be lying ahead....

Polygon particle physics never looked so good! So here's the stuff... The animated portion can be rendered all the way up to 1920x1200, HA! take that 1080p HD!!! While the backgrounds are redone in full color showing off subtle details that if you played the original, more or less make you feel that you've been wearing glasses with permanent smudges. Yeah, it's subtle, but at 9 bucks it's just enough to make you wanna take another ride...

Fans will love it, noobs to the game hopefully will appreciate what a milestone this game was in the action adventure genre.

Whats next? Flashback redux? mmmmm.....