The Park
The Park
The Park, développé et publié par Funcom, est sorti le 27 octobre 2015 sur PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch et Xbox One. Ce jeu d'aventure à la première personne propose une expérience d'horreur psychologique axée sur l'exploration et la narration, d'une durée d'environ une heure et demie pour l'histoire principale et deux heures en mode completionist, utilisant le moteur Unreal Engine 4 et vendu au prix de 12,99 euros. L'intrigue se déroule dans l'Atlantic Island Park, un parc d'attractions ouvert en 1977 par l'excentrique Nathaniel Winter et marqué par une succession de tragédies, d'accidents et de meurtres, où Lorraine doit retrouver son fils Callum disparu alors que la nuit tombe et que la terreur s'installe. Le joueur explore les attractions décrépites, entre dans l'esprit de Lorraine et peut appeler Callum tout en interagissant avec l'environnement, sachant que l'expérience aborde des sujets émotionnellement difficiles. La presse a salué une expérience psychologique soignée et une histoire personnelle puissante, tandis que certains joueurs regrettent un simulateur de marche décevant et confus. Le titre affiche un score de 67 sur Metacritic et OpenCritic, pour une note agrégée de 66,58.
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Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« While it may be short and lack replayability, Funcom have delivered a well-crafted and finely tuned psychological experience with The Park. The exceptional audio design helps to build a chilling and tense ambiance that will delight fans of The Secret World, while even newcomers can enjoy the chilling tale of one mother’s search for her son. A true psychological thriller that you'll want to play with the headphones on and the lights off. »
« Though a little unfocused, The Park manages to deliver a surprisingly personal and powerful story. Scary at times, the real horror comes not from monsters or figments of the imagination, but from that which strikes much closer to home. »
« The Park may be very short, but it certainly leaves an impact. Taking a trip to Atlantic Island Park will reward horror fans with an unsettling tale of emotional trauma adorned with a number of well-orchestrated frights. As the game itself so ominously suggests, you should turn off the lights, plug in some headphones, and enjoy the ride. »
« The Park is far from perfect but an interesting experiment that doesn't rely on cheap scare jumps to bet on a different and intimate kind of fear. »
« A haunted walk through the smelling amusement park can surprise, entertaining and frightening at the same time. The park is ideal leisure for one autumn evening. [Issue#258] »
« The Park offers a solid, genuinely unnerving psychological horror experience, akin to watching a well crafted thriller. Whilst it does not break new ground narratively, it will please genre fans. »
« The Park runs on standard-but-efficient horror fuel: whispering sounds and child’s cries, all-enveloping darkness and creaking of abandoned yet living park rides. Hansel and Gretel’s story, intermixed with deeply personal horrors of maternity. [Issue#204, p.85] »
« This game is impossible to play without thinking, specifically, of the Australian horror film The Babadook. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« One of the most disappointing games of my life. A logically confused walking simulator in which nothing, but absolutely nothing, is remarkable. »
« [SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.] »
« لا يوجد سبب يدفعك للعب هذه اللعبة، بالرغم من قصر فترة تختيمها إلا أنها لا تملك شيئا جيدا إلا المغزى من القصة الذي يركز على جانب الأم وتعاملها من طفلها غير هذا الأمر لن تجد أي شيء حيد فالقصة عادية ونظام اللعب سيء والرسومات عادية إلأى ضعيفة وهكذا هو الأمر لباقي الأمور »
« Horrible game company that tends to suspend their players at random and refuses to give players a reason (Except: Sorry, its extremely busy we can't answer)). I highly recommend to not deal with this company. Funcom games are also in general extremely buggy but every game does has its unique flavor. Its just that the company is too horrible that I can't recommend any of their games. »
« The Park is a first person horror walking simulator made by FunCom, the makers of The Secret World. The game is about Lorraine, who returns to the titular park to search for her son, Callum, who has run off into the park in search of his teddy bear. Well, maybe. This is one of those games that relies rather heavily on mind screw, and at the end, it isn’t really clear what is real and what is fake, or even what actually happened. The protagonist is clearly going crazy and being messed with by The Park, but in the end, the whole thing feels slightly pointless – you walk around the park in a disguised linear loop, but while you see stuff and get to know Lorraine a little bit, ultimately I was left feeling cold. Why should I care? What greater context is there? Some bad guy built an amusement park on bad land and something bad happens as a result. All of the horrible stuff doesn’t really touch me because I’m left wondering why I should care about any of it; there’s no greater connection to the world, and Lorraine isn’t a particularly sympathetic protagonist. As a walking simulator, the only gameplay is walking around and clicking on stuff; there’s a few dozen interactive objects within the game, including a few rides that you fade to black to get into rather than organically climbing into them for whatever reason. There’s a couple weird scenes that feel kind of inconsistent with everything else and make little sense until you get towards the end, and even then, you might not realize what it meant unless you think about it (I didn’t realize what a certain scene involving electricity meant until I was writing this review). As there isn’t really any gameplay, and the story is confusing and kind of hollow, I’m not really left with a whole lot here. The game looks nice enough – the parking lot at the start of the game looks nice, as does the park at times (especially when first entering), and there is a nice “blood running down the walls” effect, but the game is a rather generic haunted park, and while some moments are nice visually, on the whole there’s nothing particularly memorable about the game. As a fan of The Secret World, I did enjoy the nod towards that game in the ending, and indeed, the whole game takes place in a location in that game (or at least an analogue thereof), but, really… I just couldn’t bring myself to care about this game. My recommendation? Avoid this. »
« Good story with good voice acting and an amazing atmosphere with beautiful virtuals. Yes and yes the game was too short and should have cost less at release. I picked it up at a discount and it was so damn worth it. It was much better than watching a movie. I enjoyed it very much at evening and it took me about 50 minutes to complete it. I was satisfied for the 6$ I payed. I prefer quality over quantity, because most of todays games is open-world and they are pure crap with brainless story and repetitive gameplay as hell makes you waste hours for nothing. I would really love to see another game like this form this developer. And I hope it will be at least 2h long that would be enough as long as its good and have reasonable price. »
« A Shooter on Rails without the shooting. And without the enemies. In fact without anything of interest. The trailer gives the misleading impression, "The Park" is a Horror game. But its clearly not. Its just another walking simulator. With no pay off or big twist or even anything interesting happening, and a really, really bland and "story". Stop advertising your "artsy experience walking simulators" as games already! »
« [SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.] »
