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From GameWatcher: "SOMA is a truly excellent gaming experience, with the only flaws coming from your own personal expectation. If you're expecting a game as terrifying as Amnesia and without any adventure game-style puzzles to solve you might have some complaints, but SOMA is still scary, dripping with tension and heart-stopping moments, and it's easier to find the items you need to solve puzzles than in Amnesia. It's the story and world of SOMA that is the highlight though, with a compelling storyline that really digs into deep moral issues like "what makes you you" and "what does it mean to be human". In the 10 or so hours it took me to finish SOMA I was hooked for the entire experience, from shocking beginning to one of the best game endings I've seen since Portal. SOMA will destroy you emotionally, and that's a very good thing indeed."

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Push Square: "SOMA's an interesting release that succeeds and stumbles in areas that we didn't expect it to. Indeed, given the developer's track record, we'd anticipated a terrifying title but while it has its eerie moments, it's a bit of a disappointment as a horror game. Where it's more successful is in its ability to depict the moral challenges of AI, and this subject matter results in some of the tougher decisions that we've seen in a game for a while. The plot is compelling, the presentation is generally very good, and the conclusion is outstanding. But all of these achievements will be tempered if you're looking for the kind of scares that defined Amnesia: The Dark Descent."

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Frictional Games, developers of the hit horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent and its later sequel, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, are back on the scene with their latest dark reality with SOMA. A departure from their prior games, SOMA is a science-fiction tale of a derelict and terror-riddled deep-sea station called Pathos-II. As one of the only remaining sentient inhabitants of the station, players must scour their way through ruined hallways, sunken ships, and even the depths of the oceans abyss to uncover the truth behind the mysterious projects underway.

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The survival horror genre experienced a slump of sorts last gen, with classic IPs struggling to find their footing on the newly released consoles. Standout newcomers to the genre were few and far between, and on PC, it was a similar case. That was until Amnesia: The Dark Descent released. Developed by Frictional Games, known prior for their Penumbra series, The Dark Descent was a huge success for the independent developer and sparked a fire in the survival horror genre for years to come. With that, Frictional Games has a lot to live up to with their first new game since The Dark Descent. Having their most successful title looming over their head and A Machine For Pigs as a fickle reminder of how unreceptive fans may be to change, will SOMA be the next champion in the genre? Queue the review.

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From GameWatcher: "SOMA is a truly excellent gaming experience, with the only flaws coming from your own personal expectation. If you're expecting a game as terrifying as Amnesia and without any adventure game-style puzzles to solve you might have some complaints, but SOMA is still scary, dripping with tension and heart-stopping moments, and it's easier to find the items you need to solve puzzles than in Amnesia. It's the story and world of SOMA that is the highlight though, with a compelling storyline that really digs into deep moral issues like "what makes you you" and "what does it mean to be human". In the 10 or so hours it took me to finish SOMA I was hooked for the entire experience, from shocking beginning to one of the best game endings I've seen since Portal. SOMA will destroy you emotionally, and that's a very good thing indeed."

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SOMA is an ambitious work of science fiction which grapples with fundamental questions of consciousness, identity, and the relationship between the mind and the body. It feels weighty but never dry or ponderous thanks to an engaging and surprising story. But SOMA is also a work of survival horror, and in this regard slightly less successful. While the scares are unquestionably intense and terrifying Id expect nothing less from the developer behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent the puzzle-solving and exploration elements are much less memorable and produce some unfortunate pacing problems.

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Ive never played a game thats affected me as much as SOMA, and to be honest Im not sure I want to ever again, although Im very glad I did. It has the DNA of movies like Alien, 2001, Sunlight, and Event Horizon, with a splash of the original Dead Space and Bioshock, but brings plenty of new ideas to the table. It makes you think about what it means to be alive, and indeed how you classify life, and is a brilliant example of just how far video games have evolved.

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DTOID: What makes us human? Is it our physical body, our intellect, our spirit -- or all of the above? These questions permeate an underwater world where everythings gone mad. The machines have lost it, taking over all that was once run by mankind -- including the very nature of being human.

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TSA: SOMA is the latest title from Frictional Games, creators of the Amnesia and Penumbra series, so expectations are high for their first game on PlayStation 4. Admittedly, the first impressions arent all that great as your character wakes up in a modern day apartment and heads off to the doctors for a brain scan, with its simplistic graphics and poor facial animations. That all changes as, one brain scan later, Simon is transported hundreds of years in to the future to a research base deep under the sea. With some superb lighting and particle effects, any graphical rough edges are hidden and some of the underwater sections are particularly stunning and atmospheric to explore.

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Emily at GameSpew writes: "Initially it was all about sparkling vampires, then werewolves and now zombies but Zombie Vikings? Those are two words I never thought Id hear together, especially when theyre included in the same game as Odin and his cheeky not-so-nipper, Loki. Sadly were not faced with Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hiddleston (mmm), but instead were given a fair performance by plenty of multi-skilled voice actors. Does it work as a whole though? This is the main question I asked."