INDIGO PROPHECY

directed/designed by David De Gruttola (David Cage)

published by Atari

platforms: Xbox, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360

reviewed by Adam Armstrong

5.21.09

A video game that is fun to watch anybody play.

You are a killer, Lucas Kane (David Gasman). But you don’t know why you did it. At the same time you are the cops, Detective Carla Valenti (Barbara Scaff) and Detective Tyler Miles (also voiced by David Gasman). As Lucas you are starting to find that you are seeing things and being hunted by the police and people who are not so human. As Carla and Tyler you are finding that there is a lot more here than a random homicide. All the while the temperature just keeps dropping.

I happened upon this quite by accident. Indigo Prophecy (known as Fahrenheit outside the U.S. and Canada) isn’t a video game as such but more like an interactive movie. There are so many different things that you can do as both sets of characters it really allows for replay, which most video games lack. An example: After you kill the man at the beginning of the game, you can clean up the scene and hide everything or you can run out of the bathroom covered in blood right past the cops. You can leave lots of clues for the cops or almost none. There are multiple endings and cinematic scenes that had me playing through it a few times. The only complaint others and I have had is the past sequence. Getting across the road, without being seen, is a real pain in the butt.

Crossing fingers and hoping for a sequel: 5 out of 5