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SOMA
Released On: Sep 21, 2015
84
8.5
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 Critic Reviews
84
90% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
6% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 Critic Reviews
84
90% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
6% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
As with any thoughtful storytelling, Soma works on multiple levels.
One of the best games I've played this year and my favorite from Frictional to date.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,480 User Ratings
8.5
83% Positive
1233 Ratings
1233 Ratings
10% Mixed
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
7% Negative
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,480 User Ratings
8.5
83% Positive
1233 Ratings
1233 Ratings
10% Mixed
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
7% Negative
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
It may not stir the hordes of wailing YouTubers looking for the next best haunted house, but SOMA succeeds at crafting something much more meaningful in a genre that’s deserving of more than just simple jump scares.
Soma’s impressively realized underwater ordeal challenges even the coldest robot-slayers to consider a world where making such snap moral decisions is anything but automatic.
What it may lack in gameplay elements, it more than makes up with a deep philosophical story that will make the player think as deeply as few games have ever managed before.
A masterpiece of audio and visual design, SOMA is atmospheric, cerebral, and occasionally frustrating.
The only thing SOMA does well is monsters. If Frictional took a lesson from Alien: Isolation and let them roam the entire map, the game would’ve had a chance to shine. Alas, every encounter is totally predictable, so they fail to sufficiently spice SOMA’s totally bland and predictable story. [Issue#203, p.77]
Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»
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It has some very good moments, but overall the game was a dissapointment for me. The story and even the ending was extremely forseeable. The game is very clearly divided into scary moments and story moments to a point where you just swing from running to reading. Yes the atmosphere is very good but overall it just falls short of what it could have been.
I would have prefered to make it either as scary as Amnesia which would have been awesome in this underwater setting. Or a better story with some twists. It feels like the devs couldn't really decide where to go.
For me the Ending was the biggest disappointment as I was really sitting in my chair and thought
"Did they really just go for the most obvious ending possible? ****
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Summary Strange occurrences are disrupting the routines of the PATHOS-2 research facility. The radio is silent. Behavioral anomalies of the machines are increasingly dangerous, if not... malevolent. The facility is devolving into chaos. No weapons, and the only escape is practically unthinkable. From Frictional Games, creators of the Amnesia and...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PC
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Sep 21, 2015
Developer:
- Frictional Games
Publisher: Frictional Games
Genres:
