![]() ![]() Gathered around a towering structure affectionately referred to as ‘The Hate Pillar’, the five characters are offered a chance to end their torment by completing a scenario AM has prepared for each of them. Such is the setting we’re left with when we first meet our five hapless protagonists, who have spent the past 109 years trapped within the bowels of an insane machine with a sadistic streak and a serious megalomaniacal complex. Joining forces to merge into a single consciousness calling itself AM (as in “I think, therefore I AM”) this unholy marriage of modern technology and malevolence directed its prime directive of death and destruction at mankind, waging war against the entire human race and eventually rendering the entire earth devoid of any life whatsoever, but not before kidnapping five unsuspecting souls and dragging them to down into the depths of the earth to subject them to all manners of physical and psychological torment. Based on a short story by acclaimed author Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth provides a stark contrast to the typically saccharine offerings of the genre.ĭuring the glory days of the Cold War, in an attempt to bring modern world efficiency to the thankless task of genocide, the Chinese, Russian, and American governments each took it upon themselves to construct mammoth subterranean supercomputers tasked with plotting the destruction of one another (how all three superpowers managed to come upon the exact same idea at the exact same time can only attributed to an amazing coincidence or horrible lack of security).Īs is inevitable with all supercomputers in science-fiction stories, eventually these computers became self-aware and subsequently pissed-off with the human race. However, what sets this game apart from its brethren is perhaps one of the most dark and disturbing stories ever committed to the medium. ![]() In terms of sheer gameplay mechanics, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream resembles your typical point-and-click adventure fare. ![]()
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