Everything takes place in a very Resident Evil-like fashion, with the game jumping from camera to camera as you move outside of the boundaries of each one’s field of vision. Though in deference to the writing team, I should state that the reason the story feels overly long is mainly because of the amount of poorly executed gameplay that Syberia 3 delivers. In some ways, that adds a little bit of mystery and interest to the story which is a long and winding mess of tales, involving some which never even come close to resolving themselves, mixed in with a couple of better realized efforts. Right off the bat, the writer throws the middle finger up to new players by failing to provide any sort of recap or lead-in, instead opting to assume that everyone has already played and completed the first two games in the series. Even the title screen – just the static game logo over a snow and fog background – jumps and stutters.īut Syberia 3 doesn’t fail just because the game’s technical performance isn’t up to scratch. There’s barely a single second where Syberia 3 runs at the framerate that it intends to. Unfortunately, the development team don’t appear to have kept up with the times. That clearly isn’t the case though, with the flat, uninspired, dated, and occasionally ugly game world looking like it would have been relatively easy to get running on the original target platform back in the last generation.
Lead character Kate Walker shuffles unconvincingly through a game engine that constantly wheezes and groans as if it was running on a system that doesn’t have the power to keep up with it. It was always going to be a bit of a challenge to bring Sokal’s beautiful artwork into the 3D space, but it would have been hard to imagine how it could have been carried off any worse than this. After being stuck in what appears to have been some sort of contractual and development hell, Benoît Sokal’s game has finally staggered across the finish line here in 2017.
Syberia 3 raging series#
Back in 2009 – some eight years ago – French developer Microïds announced that they were working on pulling their popular graphical adventure series Syberia into a real-time 3D world and that the new game – Syberia 3 – was set to launch in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and PC.
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