A Machine for Pigs

Fricitonal Games on Wednesday released  a new trailer for the upcoming horror game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.

Unlike the stifling, stone castle corridors of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, it looks from the trailer that fans of the original game can look forward to creeping through the dark, foreboding halls, streets, and lonely basement refineries of a Victorian-era London. (check out the scary for yourself in the trailer below)

The Machine for Pigs official website sets the year in 1899, sixty years after the first game. Players will take on the unfortunate role of "industrialist Oswald Mandus," who "has returned from a disastrous expedition from Mexico, which has ended in tragedy. Wrecked by fever, haunted by dreams of a dark machine, he recovers consciousness in his own bed, with no idea of how much time has passed since his last memory. As he struggles to his feet, somewhere beneath him, an engine splutters, coughs, roars into life..."

Looks like a fun time.

In a PC Gamer interview with The Chinese Room, the company in charge of developing Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, David Pinchbeck said, "It's fairly true to the spirit of the original game. There's a definite case of 'don't fix what isn't broken.' We're not going to be arming the player up at all - you're still going to to be hiding for most of it and running and peaking and not wanting to open doors and things like that."

The atmosphere definitely mirrors The Dark Descent. Just discovering this game, I am already both excited and scared for its release. I have not yet seen what exactly stalks Oswald Mandus through these horrific, ill-lit halls, so my anticipation of seeing these other-worldly monsters is through the roof.

This new title in the Amnesia franchise is not a direct sequel, but rather another tale in the same universe.

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is set to release in early 2013. In the meantime, The Chinese Room developers want your fear! Yes, they want recorded screams, shrieks and whimpers of your terror and anguish. The recorded files, in formats of Wavs, Oggs, and MP3s, may be sent to piggies@thechineseroom.co.uk

For more information, visit www.aamfp.com.

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