I must say I’m not much of a PC game player. Having recently jumped onto the XBOX 360 bandwagon and finding myself preoccupied with games like Rainbow Six Tom Clancy’s Vegas and Call of Duty 4, I’ve pretty much left my PC games to rot in the shelves (save for my collection of The Sims 2 and its expansions, which are perpetually displayed on my desk).

Then along came The Experiment. I was intrigued when a friend of mine showed off his latest Amazon.com purchase, and I thought, “Heck, why not, I can afford to take a break out of the usual FPS games and try this one.” And so, full of anticipation, I popped in the CD.

I quickly found out that while the game play IS rather different from the usual adventure games that I’m accustomed to, The Experiment (a.k.a Experience 112) is indeed your typical “I-woke-up-with-a-bad-case-of-amnesia-so-WTF-am-I-now?” game. You wake up in this high-tech boat with a slew of innovations at your disposal, and this scientist chick called Lea Nichols just happened to be in the same predicament as you are. No worries, just let her take the lead and after countless puzzles, problem-solving and password-digging, you eventually find out where and who you are, but at the expense of your own sanity, IMHO. I have no love for the erratic controls, bad in-game language translations and choppy SFX. Plus, no one likes being stuck with no direct control over your very own character.

Looks like it’s back to killing tangos in R6V for me.