Midnight Nowhere

by Buka

Product Features

• Immersive 3-D murder mystery
• More then 60 environments to explore
• Numerous puzzles to solve and characters to encounter
• Stunning 3D graphics and animation
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001DLLYA
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 15, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,475 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Murders... Dozens of horrific murders. People are leaving the town in panic. The police are bending over backwards to catch the criminal; the military are putting cordons round the town... but nothing can stop the maniac. New people are found dead every day. Horror and death reign over the town...

You wake up and find yourself in a mortuary. The room, which you are in, is in a mess. Dead bodies lie scattered all around you... What am I doing here? What happened in the room? You cannot remember... The answers await you at the end of your journey...

Midnight Nowhere will immerse you in a world rich in atmosphere. In this suspenseful, story-driven adventure you will solve numerous puzzles and battle creatures of the dark to reveal the ultimate mystery. Prepare yourself for the most thrilling experience in a stunningly beautiful 3D world of suspense and horror!

Product Description

Midnight Nowhere - Horror and death reign over a small town. Police can't catch the killer, who's taking a life each day. Cordons have been placed around the town - no one gets in, no one gets out. You're thrown into the middle of this nightmare scenario, and to survive you'll have to solve a terrible mystery.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another bizarre import, May 2, 2004

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Lynn S. Hendricks "Wordmama" (Carson City, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midnight Nowhere (CD-ROM)

A very strange little game indeed. It plays out like a survival horror game, except there's no way to die and the only use your character has for a gun is to shoot a locked door. The plot is odd in the extreme and only holds together by the barest thread of coincidence. You play to the end assuming All Will Be Revealed, only to find that the central mystery is not only not answered but not even mentioned. Excuse me?

That aside, game play is fairly smooth and logical, though there's an awful lot of looking for keys. It's a brain game, not a reflex game, so expect to do a lot of problem solving and no shooting. (And hours of pixel-hunting, sigh.) The walls you pass are often decorated with very funny subversive posters that seem to have been designed by a satirical comic screwing around with Photoshop (you know the type -- photos of ordinary people bulged out on one side and so on).

Incidently, you should take the Mature rating fairly seriously. There's a lot of cursing, many many many photos of nude women, and variously horribly slaughtered bodies around every corner. I mean, I've seen worse, but I'm not sure I'd be happy about seeing a 13-year-old playing this game.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Immersive, May 15, 2004

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Kevin G. Pitchford (Augusta,Ga) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midnight Nowhere (CD-ROM)

First off, if you are not a fan of adventure games
And don't know who gabriel knight or manuel calvera is
then drop a point on the review. But if you love adventure games
and realize how few worth playing come out then give this game
a go. It is far from perfect but it really draws you into the
game. I agree it is not scary and it is far less frustrating then Silent hill.I fell in love with the world buka had created.This is defintley a game that deserved it's mature rating. So much so that fetish magazines and web sites have even reviewed the game.So if you are over 18 and love adventure games you will find this title very worthy of a purchase.

Good but not great.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Da? Nyet!, April 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Midnight Nowhere (CD-ROM)

First of all, this game is NOT scary, no where near that of Silent Hill or any other in that genre. The only thing that makes it anywhere near a horror game is the creepy music. The graphics are done pretty well, a lot of attention to detail was done in this game. Second of all, this game is really short, so short that the walk thru on one web site was about a page long. The only thing that gives it any real length is by some of the 'puzzles' that you have to solve, which most are pretty easy. This game, to add to some confusion, uses lots of red herrings and different code numbers for certain doors, and they also play dirty by sometimes showing you what to do by the icon on some, not on the others. It is a point and click, and as in many of them, don't expect any fights or boss battles, Also the game was designed by Russians, and even though it was translated well for an American audience, there are still a few puzzles that has to be done that only the Ruskies know about, but for most expereinced gamers that shouldn't be much of a problem. All in all, it's an okay game if your bored and have a day to kill, but don't pay the current price, it's not worth it, wait a few weeks until the price drops and then get it.