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Phobos: 1953 PC

Phobos: 1953 is a prequel to a Russian thriller entitled Phobos, which was released in May. A psychological adventure game takes us to a mysterious bunker, where KGB companions conducted experiments on the limitations of the human mind.

Adventure | singleplayer

Phobos: 1953 Release Date PC

04March2010

developer: Phantomery Interactive publisher: CP Digital Official website

Russian language game language: Russian

Phantomery Interactive, developer of Sublustrum (Outcry), in cooperation with CP Digital and cinema company Art-Pictures announces a new psychological adventure project. The first episode of the game under the title Phobos: 1953 is prequel for a Russian thriller Phobos, which is going to be on the screen in May, 2009. The action of the film takes place in nowadays, at a night club located in the former military underground shelter. The characters of the film turn out to be in the closed space deep underground, where they are to face different manifestations of irrational phobias.

The plot of the game is based on real developments of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR (the former KGB) in the field of researches of possibilities limitations of human beings, telepathy, and scare impact on the human organism. The gamer turns out to be in the underground shelter where there is laboratory that used prisoners as materials in its researches. He is to learn the truth about scaring events, that took place in 1953 and that were the course of personnel liquidation and the whole complex preservation.

A photorealistic visual style of Phobos 1953 project brings the gamer back into the USSR of the fifties: the underground shelter's interior is reconstructed on the basis of a real military objectives, text materials used historically valid documents.

The atmosphere of isolation and suspense surrounds the gamer throughout the whole of the game, leaving him face to face with his phobias. The voice of an invisible observer broadcasting over the system of inner communication accompanies us. But whose voice is it – a friend's or an enemy's one?

Last updated on 24 July 2009

Game mode: single player  

User score: 7.1 / 10 based on 26 votes.

Pre-release expectations: 8.2 / 10 based on 20 votes.

Age restrictions Phobos: 1953: 12+

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