I would class this as a well written game which is somewhere between a point and click adventure and interactive story. I would prefer it having more puzzles and fewer passive plot triggers (by that I mean walking to a particular location or talking to someone without good reason to make progress).

Despite some gameplay issues, this is a really interesting and engaging story with some well thought out characters. It will provide a good 8-10 hours of entertainment.

The premise is that you a\re a psychiatrist who is called on to investigate 5 unusual and possibly related cases in an isolated asylum on Staten Island. The background of your patients soon appears suspicicious and at the same time the main character has complications in his personal life that make things very difficult to handle.


The downside is that there aren't any real puzzles. You have an inventory much like a traditional point and click but any puzzles involving that are really easy.The game is somewhat artificially drawn out by the mechanic of interviewing patients- you need to play audio clips at your patients and the choice of clip and/or which patient you'e supposed to be interviewing at a particular time doesn't really make a lot of sense. So you end u wandering back and forth until something happens. It gets tedious after the second chapter of the game.

Fortunately the story, voice acting and graphics keep it interesting and enjoyable.


In short, an intriguing story with good acting and excellent atmosphere only mildly hampered by a clunky mechanic.

Overclocked A History Of Violence =19.7 Hours of pure fun! 4.9 out of 5 Stars
Played it again..
A story with so many twists and turns that you'll keep guessing right up to the..
Big Surprise's in the Ending!

This game truly is the ultimate psychological mind bender..

The Cast:
Dave McNamara-Psychiatrist from Washington DC
Five Patients -All aged 18-20 Three Male - Two Female all go by their Cell number’s 1-5 at first!
Kim-Dave’s wife is a phone contact -And...
Terry Ingram-Lawyer Best Friend Phone contact
Detective Moretti, NYPD
Dr. Young. Psychiatrist on staff
Tamara: Nurse on staff
Ryker- Guy at the Bar
Bartender at the Nighthawk
Miller-Guard by Hospital
Mr. ( I forgot) - Hotel Desk Clerk
Mysterious Man
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Inventory:
Wallet
Pendulum
PDA/Phone/Recorder/Email
Credit Card
Change
Map - I really don’t know why.. You never use it!
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Story:
Dave McNamara a DC psychiatrist was sent to a New York Psychiatric Hospital to try and find out what caused 5 young adults to end up patient’s under nearly the same circumstances.
Dave/You will interact with them all recording the sessions and re-playing them for each other to spark memories that become Flashbacks. Flashback’s start with a Cut Scene then you control each patient through their many memory sessions.. (quite fun)

As you keep playing and record sessions with them everyone’s lives begin to intertwine and the pieces start to unravel.. Dave’s own life unravels as well!
Edge of your seat stuff here people..
I’M NOT KIDDING!!
This would have been a great movie!

The storyline was fantastic! Had me fooled so many times..
I thought I had the ending all figured out by Chapter II--Not even close!
I had every single person as the “Bad Guy” at some point..
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Casual 3rd person point and click maneuvering and easier to use inventory item’s .
Most of the game required a lot of thinking, listening trial and error! And then there were the WTH moments where I had to save the game and look up what to do, or how to do it often!
One puzzle entering a code in the last chapter really required memory from hours past and that still didn‘t work for me.. Had to cheat-more then once!
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Con’s, Sort Of:
We should have had some way to re-call dialogues (like a diary) when Dave loses his PDA permanently.. Otherwise you need a Steele trap or photographic memory for the ending!

They did such a good job on graphics for an older game except when Dave’s glass at the bar doesn’t come anywhere near his mouth it looks like he dumps all his whiskey in his lap.
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Tid Bit’s:
I noticed something right away that I thought was a clue.. In the patient files everyone was sent there by a Judge. It say’s Hon- for Honorable so and so on everyone’s chart except for Cell #1 it just had a name. Either the developers did that on purpose to fool gullible people like me, or it was a blooper!

This game reminded me of some Nancy Drew games in that you might want to take some notes.. I did..

As with the last 3 games I’ve played by Adventure Company they inserted playing computer game’s into this one, made references to playing and put some of their own work in this one as well. The Poster by the bus stop is an ad for "The Moment Of Silence" by House Of Cards..

1. Funny thing I missed the first play through.. Keep an eye on the car in front of Dave's hotel!

I really wish there were 100’s that play like This one..

Overclocked is a point and click adventure game from 2008, and a great example of how a good story cannot save a game. It has a decent, if predictable, plot and some excellent writing in spots. It even has an interesting stab at an achronological narrative. All of which is ruined by tedious, repetitive gameplay.

I won't spend much time summarizing the plot to avoid spoilers, it builds logically on the hook given above. It's predictable but well done, and would probably have made a good movie or novel or really anything other than a video game. The gimmick to the story is that it is told out of order through flashbacks by a group of mental patients, and from a storytelling perspective that is done well. The flashbacks build on each other and occasionally reveal different perspectives on events or answer questions raised by earlier flashbacks. What you wouldn't guess from the product summary is that the characterization is, within the limits of the terrible graphics and voice acting, surprisingly good at times. David McNamara, the player proxy and best match for a protagonist, is not a pleasant person, or the person he is initially presented as, and his character is revealed over the course of the game in a way that plays off the main plot. If the person who did the script for this game wrote a novel, I'd probably give it a look.

But none of that really matters, because the game part of this game is mostly, I'd say roughly 70-80% of what you do, is moving between five rooms with unmoving patients and playing sound clips to them in order to unlock a flashback section. The problem with this is that you have to do it over and over again, and in every case you've already heard everything you're playing back. This could have been a clever mechanic, but the poor signposting and the repetitive nature of the "puzzle" just kills the momenutm of the game unless you're using a walkthrough, and even then you spend far too much time jogging back and forth.

The flashback sections themselves are mostly alright. Those that have gameplay, a lot are only cutscenes, are typical point and click adventure game puzzles. Most of these are fine within the limits of the occasionally annoying camera system, and the occasional "stealth" puzzle that requires you to assume that someone turning their head slight becomes suddenly unable to see something that is still happening right in front of them.

If you like the idea of the story, and you can get it cheap, you may want to pick this up and go through it with a walkthrough, but otherwise you're better off finding a better point and click adventure elsewhere.

This was a riveting story; I would say that the game play was minimal but in my opinion, this didn't detract.
The characters were all believable and well rounded...they didn't seem like run of the mill game characters.
That is, except for the female characters whose physical figures were totally ridiculous.
In this respect, the age of the game shows .
However, the voice acting was fantastic.
The graphics were very good too; not just the incessant rain, but other details, such as the water at the ferry dock and the landscapes....
I recommend this game....

different concept to other games like none ive played before. Im going to say I recommend this game but only just. theres only ONE major fault with this game and its this: theres no way of knowing what to do next. frustrating. you do various things like ringing your ex wife up on your mobile or your lawyer just to see if youve"triggered" something that will forward you in the game. besides this its a good game. its a good story you want to find out more . and I like how you play different characters.

This is an pretty solid, above average point and click game that I think any fan of the genre will enjoy. It suffers from many of the same flaws games in this category face (awkward, blocky animations, clunky mechanics, and the story definitely grips you but kind of falls flat at the end), but nothing so horrible that I would say avoid it. It definitely introduced some interesting story telling devices and provided a solid challenge that outside of a few weird puzzles didn't have me running for hints.

A neat little adventure game. The actual point and click aspects are quite barebones and the game falls into the trap where it is often hard to know what you need to do to advance the plot.

But the plot is good, very good. It is a linear story so don't expect anything else but the story is good on many levels although the pacing can be a bit slot at times. I don't want to go into any spoilers but the main character is very interesting and both his personal story as well as the main mystery is very interesting.

The game looks ok i guess but it certainly shows its age even though it wasn't a looker for its time either. There are only a handful locations in the game but i liked the ones that exist.

All in all a ok point & click game which is elevated by its good story.

The game is not bad, but it has lots of shortcomings. Although the story has some inconsistencies and the mechanics are riddled with artificial limitations, I would still commend "Overclocked: A History of Violence" for the style and the effort the developers put in it.

It's creepy, it's immersive, it's not crashing (too much). The characters are believable (considering most are mentally unstable), and the mafia/politicians/businessmen mix is so spot-on, I would think they made it politically correct for at least one country I have lived in :shocked:

Honestly, the story has a good buildup, the mystery is solvable and it just flows nicely into the gameplay. It's one of those hidden treasures I have ignored for far too long obviously.

pros

+ great looking and detailed 3D graphics and beautiful pre-rendered scenes
+ highly detailed and well made character models and animations
+ believable characters with realistic characterizations
+ well made cinematic cut scenes
+ gloomy atmosphere
+ suspenseful musics
+ a intriguing, mature and suspenseful story which slowy unravels
+ puzzles are enjoyable and not too difficult.
+ there are a total of six playable characters.

cons

- there are no Steam achievements
- game doesn't drop cards
- the voice acting varies in quality

Overall, this is an pretty good psychological thriller adventure game. i think game is verging more towards interactive movie than a old school p'n'c adventure game so i really enjoyed and recommended!