Bedlam
- October 12, 2015
- RedBedlam
- 7h median play time
An ambitious and fascinating wander through gaming’s history, but one that can’t replicate the addictive gameplay of the forefathers it documents.
Get on SteamBedlam is a first-person shooter based on a novel of the same name by award winning British author Christopher Brookmyre. In Bedlam, players take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at medical scanning developer Neurosphere, who finds herself transported into the world of Starfire: a nineties FPS she remembers from her teen years. Searching for an explanation and a way home, s…
Mac OS
PC
Playstation 4
Windows
Xbox One
PlayStation
Xbox
Reviews
- story98 mentions
- 49 % positive mentions
- 45 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- gameplay54 mentions
- 28 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 15 % negative mentions
- funny33 mentions
- 88 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 12 % negative mentions
- graphics29 mentions
- 14 % positive mentions
- 79 % neutral mentions
- 7 % negative mentions
- stability21 mentions
- 10 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 90 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Bedlam review
An ambitious and fascinating wander through gaming’s history, but one that can’t replicate the addictive gameplay of the forefathers it documents.
60%Bedlam: The Game Review
Bedlam: The Game is not all that fun to play, but that doesn't mean that it's an outright disgrace. Rubbing shoulders with its cruddy combat and occasionally criminal controls is a release with a strong sense of humour and some razor-sharp writing. It's just a shame that this escapade fails to ever elevate itself beyond the properties that its parodying, serving up a sloppy first-person shooter that should have been so much more.
40%Review: Bedlam
Slightly above average or simply inoffensive. Fans of the genre should enjoy them a bit, but a fair few will be left unfulfilled.
60%
