Obscure II takes place two years after the gruesome events of the first game. The survivors have gone on to college and try to return to their normal lives. After the discovery of a beautiful but strange plant on school campus, events take a turn for the worse. Soon, the college students have to battle for survival once again.   Obscure 2: The Aftermath (PC PS2 Wii) Game Strategy Guide, Obscure 2: The Aftermath Strategy Walkthrough

Just think how awesome the world would be if everybody got fed up halfway through trying to invent something more exciting than we already had - it'd be a massive free-for-all, with bodice-wearing cavemen strapping horses to blimps and chucking powdered eggs at passers-by, frantically winding up their gramophones before the telegram man arrived. Just like the Survival Horror genre then.  GUIDES: Obscure II: The Aftermath (PC PS2 Wii) Game Walkthrough Guide, Obscure II: The Aftermath Walkthru Strategy

Aside from that one particular game which shall remain nameless, we've not seen much action on the innovation front since Infogrames let Edward Carnby lose in that dodgy old mansion 15 years ago. Sure, we've managed to ditch the wonky controls and modern day monsters tend to be, well, a lot less boxy, but it's still the same old stream-lined slog through spooky sewers and hospitals, complete with tenuous puzzles, ineffectual combat and depressing dead-time between set-pieces.

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