Entertaining and darkly gripping story in silhouette optic: Limbo

Anyone looking for fresh and unused game ideas instead of already known after the umpteenth rehash title, will always find it in small Independence game forging. In the case of not only graphically sensational Games Limbo Play Dead / Headup Games were responsible. And the special edition in slipcase with the Mac / PC hybrid CD-ROM has failed to also very pretty. While the CD-ROM inserted scratch protected on a plastic spindle, still stuck in digipack a set of cards, a sticker with the boy's head and a cardboard 3D glasses. The soundtrack is also stored on the CD-ROM and could be easily imported into iTunes.

The plot of Limbo is quickly told in one sentence: A little, nameless, voiceless boy looking in the outermost ring of hell, which the game its name giver limbo, according to his sister. But the road by this designed in black and white silhouette optics game is dangerous and full of obstacles. The Tot must shimmy on dangerous mines, escape the giant spider and save themselves from wild guys.

Controls the Special Edition on the Mac (and even on the PC, where I played it on the iMac) via keyboard. More than arrow keys and the Alt key are not required. Thus, while the boy is controlled in this 2D sidescrolling adventure from left to right and up and down, it can interact with the Alt key with some objects. He cruises for example on a boat on a for him as a non-swimmer otherwise insurmountable lake or water it opens locks, so freely give him the obstructed path.

Limbo lives of his gloomy setting and the equally sinister plot. The boy dies reach the end in the truest sense of the word a thousand deaths before he. Limbo is so relentlessly thrilling staged that you are sitting in front of the screen with a beating heart and want to experience the action necessarily (IIb). This hopping and puzzle game fascinates unfortunately only "three to four hours - and thus provides quantitative manageable gruesome game Graphically, it is designed for outstanding (very) adult players in the indie-tip...