Echochrome

Remember those flip books full of optical illusions? Those books were full of visual chicanery where your eyes saw one thing and your brain saw another. Now imagine taking those books and creating those illusions in an interactive videogame and you have Echochrome, a new title available for download on the PlayStation Network.

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Echochrome is all about perception, in fact the game is built on it. While most optical illusions just try to trick you, a players goal in this game is to manipulate their own perception of what's right before their eyes. Gamers are placed in a first year art students draft book and placed in very basic, black and white drawings of slim walkways and stairs that are turned and twisted in completely random ways. Players guide a crash test dummy looking figure through the 2D maze, hitting a series of checkpoints that grow increasingly more complicated. While this sounds straightforward enough, the challenge comes in manipulating the environment (using the left and right stick) so your walking mannequin goes where you want him to by "seeing" what you want your mind to see.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi once told me, "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." Good advice when thinking your way through Echochrome's frequently mind stumping, addictive I-think-my-IQ-just-went-up-10-points, levels.

PROS: Unique concept, challenging and addictive gameplay
CONS: The music, straight out of a French restaurant, is sleep inducing

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cokzilla23

this was my first ever purchase from the psn and i've had my ps3 for over a year now. i love this game, i love the price, and i love how you kinda do feel smart after completing a difficult maze. i also think the music goes great with this game.

fortissimo

Innovative, original, simple, and fun - there should be more games like Echochrome.

Iaini

honestly I think the music is just fine for the style of game.. it doesn't interrupt the thinking required to play it.. Simple presentation just proves the world doesn't always have to revolve around high poly count when you have a good core concept. it's good stuff :) Enjoying the PS3 version.

truth411

cokzilla23 Posted at: 05/02/08 at 8:45 PM PST this was my first ever purchase from the psn and i've had my ps3 for over a year now. i love this game, i love the price, and i love how you kinda do feel smart after completing a difficult maze. i also think the music goes great with this game.
What!?! You have not got Super StarDust HD!! Download that as well, it is extremely addicting and thats the truth.

truth411

Xbox live has downloadable movies, But PSN has THE best downloadable games. Warhawk, Superstar dust, Echocrome, High velocity bowling, Tekken 5 DR, GT 5 Prologue, Everyday Shooter etc... Yet Xbots claim the Ps3 is nothing more than a blueray player. LMAO!!! (while also omitting that all ps3 games are on blueray disc aswell). When it come to downloadable game PSN is King and thats the truth.

Shammon

NICE! Might be the first game I download![p] When Are the PSN cards going to arrive?

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