Obscure Xbox

The Breakfast Club meets Resident Evil, with this survival horror adventure set in a typical American high school, the first video game developed by the French studio Hydravision Entertainment. Players take the roles of five different students attending the rundown Leafmore High School, each representing a different socialclique stereotype. Kenny comes off as a typical BMOC jock. His sister Shannon is an "A" student with firstaid training. Kenny's friend Stan is a bit of a delinquent, always scheming, while Ashley is a promqueentype with martial arts skills and Josh is a nerdy reporter for the school paper with a good eye for important details.

At least one of the five must survive through the story to reach the game's conclusion, but each possesses distinct abilities such as Kenny's speed and strength, or Stan's thieving skills so keeping as many of them alive as possible can make it easier to overcome various obstacles and survive surprise attacks. The students' exploration of the spooky high school corridors is punctuated with fastpaced running and shooting action sequences. In good adventuregame style, players will also need to fill their inventories with whatever items they can scrounge, and figure out how to use or combine this equipment in order to solve puzzles and progress through the story.

Obscure was previously released in Europe under the title Mortifilia. Prior to development of this survival horror game, Hydravision created Zombies, a series of French language penandpaper roleplaying rulebooks. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide