Chasing Static is a brief horror story with an early 2000s low-budget film really feel. Going down within the rural components of Wales, you play as a person named Chris Selwood who, throughout his travels, discovers a small city with massive secrets and techniques.
The sport opens with Chris driving by means of a thunderstorm when he decides to tug over right into a small cafe to attend out the climate.
Inside, he meets the one particular person working there, a younger waitress whom he asks about his vacation spot. The lady tells him he missed a flip, however to not fear as a result of she was heading there after her shift and would present him the best way. Whereas she finishes closing down the cafe, Chris waits for her.
After a pair minutes of having the ability to discover the cafe and discuss to the waitress, the ability goes out. The waitress says this occurs on a regular basis, and asks Chris to repair the fuse field, which is within the backrooms of the cafe. That is the sport’s first puzzle, and it’s a must to discover the appropriate fuses and put them again in the appropriate spot. After you full this, Chris walks again to the principle seating space just for the lights to exit once more. Worse, the waitress is being held by a darkish determine with glowing eyes. Chris passes out from shock and wakes up alone within the cafe. This begins the precise gameplay, as Chris then units out to discover the world round him.
Chasing Static has a first-person point-of-view and really primary controls for exploring. You begin this in a wooded space through which you’ll discover a secret, underground analysis facility with just one scientist left. You talk together with her by means of a radio, and she or he explains how you’re in peril of an vitality discipline that may take management of somebody’s thoughts. Fortunately, she additionally is aware of how one can assist repair it. She tells you there are three areas through which you’ll find containment gear to make use of to cease the vitality discipline: the cafe store, the village close to it, and the open moors, additionally close by.
The remainder of the sport follows you enjoying as Chris to retrieve this gear to assist save the analysis facility and the areas surrounding it. Chris finds a Frequency Displacement Monitoring Machine to assist support him on his journey. The FDMD is a expertise that helps to seek out echos across the areas, that are visions that assist remedy puzzles to seek out the gear you want. They aid you to uncover the story of what occurred to the analysis facility and why what’s occurring is occurring.
The early 2000s visuals of Chasing Static are actually dated, however in a captivating approach that helps add to the sport’s general uneasiness. All the recreation is performed principally outdoors in the dead of night, and because of the state of affairs of possibly shedding your thoughts, the sport has a really creepy vibe. The music helps add to this as effectively, in addition to the anonymity of the antagonist within the recreation. As a result of the story is unveiled little by little, it permits the sport to stay scary as you aren’t 100% certain what’s going on. Even when you begin to get an concept, there isn’t a actual reply as to whether it’s actual.
Whereas enjoying I discovered no interface troubles, however I did discover myself getting misplaced a few instances, or confused on what to do subsequent. That is the sport’s most important drawback, because the areas are too giant for the scant duties you want to full in them. There’s an excessive amount of time and distance between puzzles and occasions, inflicting you (and, subsequently, the sport) to meander. Maybe this can be a good factor, as Chasing Static can nonetheless be accomplished in just a few hours. It might probably very a lot be skilled in a single night like a creepy horror film.
The truth is, Chasing Static’s old-style visuals and gameplay actually trigger it to really feel such as you’re watching a superb psychological horror out of your dad and mom’ boxed up DVDs. It’s a brief play, however positively a enjoyable one. The graphics and storyline are literally fairly cool, the voice appearing is effectively finished, and the sport does a superb job at being scary, even previous the bounce scares.