A futuristic cyber-adventure with a harmonious atmosphere, a lot of action but very straight game history.

Woke up in a cell, weak and with excruciating pain in the head is reminiscent Ni'lin after asking a supervisor only your name. A new deletion of the memories is also the name be forgotten and so you follow a daze the luminous trace on the ground as well as the instructions of the flight threats. Arrived at the scene do you imagine obediently in line to observed the deletion operations of the other prisoners, waiting for your end. Suddenly the voice of Edge, a friend who wants to help you sound. It ensures distraction and creates you a way out so that you can flee to escape extinction. By hindruchzwängen under a slightly opened door your adventure begins

Graphic

To put it directly, in advance, Remember Me just looks damn good. Already at medium graphics settings you will benefit from a very beautiful appearance. The first unusual noise, which certainly should give a cinematic touch to the game, did not bother further the game progresses. In terms of character design, the French have made capable to work. With the exception of Madame all protagonists look really impressive and detailed.

The material of the outfit looks almost realistic and face individual pores, wrinkles and scars are seen. Would the hair move now more realistic, it would be perfect! Convinced Also the level design and it has been working on many places with attention to detail. Big minuses there from me regarding the cutscenes. Although they will be played as a video, the graphics look as compared to the game no longer so solid. The language is not synchronized with the lip movements. Here Dontnod should really rely on scripted cutscenes. A further deduction there when the two aircraft (spaceships), since the coarse textures make the objects look good only from wide. This would not be so bad if it were not for some sequences where the aircraft are shown up close and notice the very strong almost square textures. Fortunately this Vehicle occurs only briefly.

Gameplay

The control of Ni'lin is solid from the hand. After pressing the corresponding key you react instantly on command. The movement and combat animations are smooth and look very good. This also applies to all the others. Unfortunately, from time to time occur some clipping error and the camera leaves a short disoriented. Particularly in combat situations it is sometimes annoying. Well I also like the animation of the robots and machines. The AI ​​is also quite clever and therefore white in combat situations good to say. If you think you could run around in circles and the opponent simply run afterwards, one has very deceived. This intercept a fairly solid and circling you with several even often. The degree of difficulty is from the middle stage rather unfair and provides many entry already in the simplest level of a challenge. Especially with the boss battles the number of opponents is too high so that you can often bite the dust.

In addition, you will have virtually forced to optimize your combo variants and memorize to replenish your life energy during battle. An opponent-type in the form of a special unit ensures illogic. Fight Your Products marked with an enemy force field, so you attracts every hit from his own life. This so far as to no longer exist. Now you may wonder why you are not then death? The forcefield opponents to go out of the way is not possible and you have to fight this, so it goes on. Of these enemy types you meet in addition to the normal units in part to three of them at the same time. Additional support will be given by your opponents more forcefield Exploding flight threats. To have especially when you're happy survived it turns out, it was only the first of three waves. If you want to here about artificial hochschrauben the season? At the end of many battles we know at least what one has done. The few puzzles are very easy to solve up to one and less demanding, but provide a little variety and bring back into it some rest.

Sound

In terms of sound options Remember Me is a bit behind the times. One option for multi-channel mode (5.1 / 7.1) or EAX support in vain. The background music comes along with groovy beats and blends fit into the overall picture. Only the Main Theme, which consists only of ordinary strings, leaves no goosebumps. Especially with the flying robots that shoot energy balls at you, one falls the missing location to negative. Whether your standing with his back to them right before or much further away, the volume is firing almost equal while.

This does help in some situations, as you can imagine, at least, which was shot at you so as to respond better, but this is not over quite authentic. Particularly inappropriate and almost in low-quality felt the sound track before in the videos of the cutscenes. Here all seems dull and flat, which did not reflect the actual game it sound. Honey for discerning ears can be in Remember Me, although not expected, but an action game is the sound (apart from the videos) perfectly fine.

Atmosphere

No game does not need a good and harmonious atmosphere and in Remember Me You must in this regard compromising barely. The attention to detail has gone well with the atmosphere. You really get the feeling that the developers had to enjoy this title. The crushed and anxious cyber world is therefore very authentic, so you ask yourself: My God, this could really look like that? In the dark realm of malformed Leaper everything is gloomy, dirty and it is like a sewer. They are regarded as scum of the population and the setting will do them justice in these areas.

Further up in the slums also all looks very devastated. Cobbled together market stalls and small cottages or flats metal show the poverty and the status of the residents in relation to the more affluent population. Witzig are solely the small speaking advertising Threaten which fly about with menus and present daily specials. Some of these remain in the air and follow your way to show you the dump in question. Next in the big city St-Michel all looks much nicer and more impressive. Modern and luminous showcase advertising, robots around keep the city clean and the rich people carry their bags behind and vending machines where you can buy memories for money. All in all, therefore fits the whole setting very well to the game and you always found lots of little gimmicks and details. Remember Me offers you no open world, so that the path is always specified. You have indeed always around you look around enough time to relax and explore the levels, but except for a few a few doors that mostly only lead to a power-up, there is only one direction.

Conclusion

For me, Remember Me was a really fun and exciting adventure. I knew beforehand that I would expect a game with a closed world whose main component would be to beat people and to fight against robots. So no title, which would tie one, but rather something in between? On The Contrary. I was pleasantly surprised! Yes, it's a closed world, and yes, you thrashes through the history of the world, but the sympathetic good protagonists, the story and the setting have so captivated me personally that I could not help Remember Me in just under 10 hours within one day have played through. Of course I was also gefrusstet that I am in some martial passages died dozens of times, but as soon as it went on, I was again on fire. This is given to me which way to turn and what I have to do next, do not bother me with this action title. Sure I would have liked a bit like space, but that was not planned for the game design. The game lives on scripted elements and it shows often. You enter an area or a larger passage and know that there will be the same trouble. In this regard, it is rarely surprised. I had a lot of fun and would be glad about a sequel. Who fell on a futuristic cyber world and play as Tomb Raider finds, will be happy with Remember Me.

(Complete Review on: GamesFinest.de)