Comments on: Indigo Prophecy

By: Patrick_91

Patrick_91 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:38:38 +0000

Indigo Prophecy starts in a bathroom at a sleazy diner in NYC. A man named Lucas Kane murders another man for no apparent reason. Fortunately he is innocent, he was somehow temporally possessed and had no control of his body. Unfortunately only Lucas and the player know this. To prove his innocence Lucas will have to go to great lengths and ultimately end up saving the world.

Indigo Prophecy is told through the eyes of 3 main characters, Lucas Kane and 2 detectives Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles. Tyler and Carla cover the investigation parts,while Lucas get the interactive scenes/evasive scenes. The story of IP is well told in the first 3/4′s,but after that it seems to feel rushed and you never really find much out about the Indigo child,you only know marginally more about her at the end then you did at the start. I do feel that the ending was done good,just that the last quarter of the game leading up to the ending could have been done better.

The voices of IP are well done,possibly some of the best of the Xbox era,everything in the game is voiced over,not one lick of text to read. The music is good and features 4 songs from Theory of a Dead Man as well as a few classic tunes as well as some love making music . This game mimics almost every aspect of every day life, including bathroom breaks! The graphics in IP are of typical 2005 Xbox/PS2 quality,the slight edge might go to the Xbox as it was made for PC/Xbox first then ported over to PS2. Anyway bottom line is its really just average looking Xbox graphics.

One complaint I do have is that IP is short,I beat it in 5hr 5min and some odd seconds. To its benefit it does have a second replay in it,you can choose different answers and end up with a slightly different ending,depending on what answers you know to choose. I personally didn’t play it a second time as I didn’t feel it warranted one, I was happy with the ending I got. At the end of the game you are given some bonus points to purchase songs,scenes,images,and behind the scenes content,it’s a nice touch but nothing special. Overall if you see it cheap somewhere ($10-$15) I’d give it a try, don’t pay too much for it as it might be a rather short experience for some people….
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Wendy Thomas

Wendy Thomas — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:01:31 +0000

The game controls were not as hard as I thought it would be. The story line was great and the characters are very life like. Good buy.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:10:03 +0000

Excellent product! I can manage surround sound, Xbox, TV, DVD, Everything all in one. Excellent
Rating: 5 / 5

By: C. Meyer "C2Tolo"

C. Meyer "C2Tolo" — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:23:20 +0000

This game is an interesting concept but I think it fell short on actually being fun. More a movie then a video game the graphics and the cinematography are great. I played the whole game through simply to find out how it ends.

The problem with the game, was there really wasn’t much playing to it. You steer the character around until you see an action option, then you click it. The only real ‘thinking’ you do is to try to quickly read the conversation options and pick one, before your time runs.

The action sequences are simply following the on-screen prompts of moving the directional pads left-right/top-bottom. I found this to be the worst part of the game as you miss all the action going in the background as you try to follow these prompts.

I give them an A for effort, but I think they need to try again.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: David Giltinan "Logically Dashing"

David Giltinan "Logically Dashing" — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:24:12 +0000

I actually just recently sold my copy when I got this invitation to review. Indigo Prophecy was a pretty fun and interesting game. The story was what sold me and the “choices that affect the game” approach. Much of the gameplay is similar in a way to Shenmue. There’s a lot of exploring and minigame sequences for action scenes and forth. Most of these mini games are done like Simon Says and the ever so grueling L and R tappings. These give you somewhat of a sense of realism while playing the game but that doesn’t make it too much fun. The fun really comes in having a variety of choices and seeing what happens when you do this or do that. The characters you play as have a mental state meter that goes up or down depending on what happens. Why yawning knocks off 20 points to this is beyond me but overall a neat feature. The story starts off intense and gripping at first but then starts to get strange and seems a bit rushed. I don’t want to spoil it for you but you’ll see what I mean once certain deaths occur. In any case I’d give this game a rental. It’s fun for what it is but the L and R sequences and the storyline at the end doesn’t make it a keeper. You should be able to finish it relatively quickly.
Rating: 3 / 5