The 10 Scariest Adventure Games of All Time: #6 – Article
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Nazi doctor performing unethical operations on unwilling patients? I hope not, but this is a game that will force you into that uncomfortable position. Based on a Harlan Ellison short story of the same name, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is one of the ten most-reprinted stories in the English language. You must assume the roles of five very different characters as you are plunged into their tortured and hidden pasts. Five souls who are trapped in the depths of an insane computer known as AM–as in I AM. A deranged AM has carried out the Prime Directive and started the Final War. These last five damned souls alive have been imprisoned in AM’s underground domain for 109 years. Now they must outwit their captor in one last attempt to escape. But even if they do escape, the Earth was destroyed in the Final War. Or is that merely another one of AM’s lies? Featuring adult-oriented themes and provocative psychological plotlines, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is not for those timid few who demand a positive conclusion to their gaming experience. There is no winning in Mouth, only ways to lose either heroically, at the peak of one’s humanity, or ignominiously–in a selfish, cowardly frightened manner. A must-play for the adventure gamer who demands intellectual confrontation. JA reviewer Ray Ivey described I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream “as dark, grim, perhaps even sick.” Publisher: Cyberdreams
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6. I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM
