Darkstar, a game that remembers a time when 650MB of data was huge and the disks were filled up en mass with all the video they could hold. Why? Well back then photo-realistic meant either a picture or a movie and interactive movie is so much cooler than interactive picture. Darkstar: The Interactive Movie is an adventure game that takes you back to those simpler times but don’t think it hasn’t learned a thing or two. If comes packed with more than 13 hours of video and two dozen endings to allow multiple play-through’s. On top of all this it is the final work of Peter Graves who is the narrator for the story. Darkstar: The Interactive Movie is rated PEGI 16 and should be hitting UK and Irish Retailers December 2011 for PC and Mac.
Source Link: Darkstar: The Interactive Movie Website
DARKSTAR FINALLY SEES RELEASE DATE CONFIRMATION: PC/MAC HYBRID VERSION TO HIT UK/IRISH RETAIL STILL IN DECEMBER 2011
Brighton, November 14th, 2011 – Darkstar is now scheduled to start appearing on the shelves of UK and Irish retailers by December 09th, 2011. Darkstar just received a PEGI age clearance for people aged 16 years or older.
Darkstar is set in the post-apocalyptic future in the year 2499. Captain John O’Neil awakens from cryogenic sleep aboard the lost and damaged starship Westwick. The ships’ computer voice informs O’Neil that he has been asleep for over 312 years, such a long time that his memories are gone—a side effect of being in hibernation centuries too long.
A breath-taking journey through space and time begins as the player explores the haunted starship searching for answers and clues as to what the true mission is. Backstory cinema is unlocked as areas are unlocked and made accessible, and the epic story unfolds on this drifting and broken starship somewhere on the other side of the Galaxy as it orbits a strange, alien planet. Players must utilize their wits and ingenuity to discover what has happened to the Earth, the starship, and its crew. They must find out what has happened to O’Neil’s partner Ross Perryman, why Pilot Paige Palmer still slumbers in her cryo-chamber and who savagely murdered Navigator Alan Burk during his long session in suspended animation. O’Neil soon discovers that the Earth has been destroyed and the crew of the Westwick are the sole surviving members of the human race…or are they?
Darkstar, both an adventure game and an interactive movie, features more than 13 hours of Full Motion Video sequences to tell its amazing story. More animated footage than any other game in history is packed into this adventure with over two-dozen exhilarating alternate endings. The cast of live actors features Clive Robertson starring Captain John O’Neil (Sunset Beach/StarHunter), as well as the original cast of the American cult television comedy series “Mystery Science Theater 3000”, including Trace Beaulieu, Beth “Beez” McKeever, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff and J. Elvis Weinstein. Darkstar is narrated by the late, great Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible/Airplane/A&E’s Biography Series), his final performance.
Darkstar combines the best of the adventure game genre with science fiction filmmaking in this ground-breaking production. With elements of dark humor, horror, and classic sci-fi, Darkstar introduces you to live-action characters in a pre-rendered, fully animated storytelling tool that allows you to wander, search, discover, and enjoy this refreshing and strange world at your own pace.
