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My word, this game is some thing I've been looking forward to play for so long. I love the time period, the atmosphere and the art style (bit of a steam punk fan).

This has already given me nightmares from the trailer and I don't expect any thing less from an Amnesia game. The game play so far is fairly similar to Amnesia: The Dark Decent but has some key differences. Checkout the vids for further details.

Both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs are horror games that combine atmosphere, a well realised world, story and sound design to create a tense atmosphere. Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs make use of jump scares to some degree but more often presents the problem to the player directly and offers many possible ways of avoiding it.

Jump scares are not the best way to make a scary game. The best way is atmosphere and the unknown. Keeping the playing of edge through a combination of these can offer a much better playing experience than throwing the monster in your face.

Also there is a face cam. I hope this improves the experience for you guys. If not let me know. Scare games often work best with a face cam. I tried to make it as subtle as possible but the recording wasn't perfect and I slowly drift out of shot a bit.

The sound design in Amnesia: The Dark Decent was excellent and so far it holds true in Amnesia:  A Machine for Pigs. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is set in a steam/industrial punk setting that is very immersive and shows the level of detail Frictional games are willing to go to.

I'm easily scared by games and was unable to complete Amnesia: The Dark Decent for this reason. Let's see how I deal with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.

The story for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is about a man who went mad with trying to achieve mechanical perfection but succeeded never the less. As always his success came at a great cost.

What I like about Amnesia: A Machine for pigs most is that it is a mash up of science fiction, alternative history and a man with the dream of the impossible. The story makes references to real history at several points and shows that the divergence from real history only took place in the last 60 or so years (around 1840).

Hope you guys enjoy and follow the series!

Steam page: http://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/239200/
GOG page: http://www.gog.com/game/amnesia_a_machine_for_pigs

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