Another World 15th Anniversary Edition (PC)

Posted Thursday, 27 December 2007 by Andreas Zecher

Do you remember the feeling of immersion that you had when you played Half-Life for the first time? I just finished playing the 15th Anniversary Edition of Eric Chahi’s Another World (named Out of this World in the US) and I had quite a similar experience of being sucked into an atmospheric game world. In both games you play a scientist who has to learn how to self-defend against other species because of a failed scientific experiment.

While Half-Life is the effort of Valve’s great team work, Another World was almost done completely by Chahi himself – an exceptional talent in programming, art and design. The Anniversary Edition includes a highly interesting Making Of video presenting the little secrets and tricks of his game development process.

Compared to todays standards Another World is both quite short and really hard. Be assured that you will die a thousand deaths and that you’ll need to replay a bunch of levels many many times. It does not help that in theory the controls are elegant and simple, but sloppy and unforgiving in reality. Of course, Another World is one of these precious gems in gaming history well worth the struggle playing through it.