DEEP FEAR FOR SEGA SATURN (MEGA RARE PAL VERSION)... QUITE POSSIBLY ONE OF THE RAREST PAL GAMES EVER RELEASED FOR ANY VIDEO GAME SYSTEM ! ! !

IT WAS RELEASED VERY LATE IN THE SATURN'S LIFE AND WAS ONLY PRODUCED IN EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITIES IN PAL FORMAT!

You are John Mayor, a sturdy blonde-haired specimen of a man who is suffering from the common cold. As a member of ERS (Emergency Rescue Services), he must investigate strange happenings in various underwater stations and vehicles. His first assignment is to explore a lopsided submarine lying on the ocean floor with his sidekick named "Mookie". When John and Mookie arrive at the sub, they discover a naval officer trying to euthanize himself because his body is being taken over by a quickly spreading parasite. Unfortunately, most of the other denizens of the deep have befallen the same fate, and John is forced to kill them, even if he recognizes the malformed humans as former friends. To confound his problems, oxygen is sometimes scarce, so he may have to fumble with a respirator in the midst of combat.

As strange as this may sound, the game thrives on its limitations. Modern gamers may be frustrated by the inability to toggle camera angles, but the fixed point-of-view really helps make this horror more horrifying. Sometimes John will face something fierce, but we cannot see what monstrosity awaits him. You can then opt to have the young hero run into danger just to get a more revealing view or you can have him take his gun and fire into unknown. If you choose the latter, you will need to listen for the sounds of bullets hitting something organic, waiting for sputtering sounds as various humours pour from the monster's body.

Another seeming shortcoming is the lack of space and maneuverability in battles, but this snugness fits the submarine setting perfectly. The crew's living quarters appropriately resemble college dorm rooms, minimally decorated with the basic necessities of life, and in some of these John will face some of his largest adversaries. While most adventures reserve larger playing fields for major boss battles, the ones in Deep Fear feel comparatively like sardine tins. Since there's no room to run, you will need to confront your claustrophobia in addition to facing gargantuan mutants.

The sounds in this game are excellent. Water drips, air locks creak, and a monkey screams from a far off room - all offsetting the fact that most of this game is silent - a silence that emulates the feeling of being submerged and insulated from the world. It is particularly strange that most of the gameplay has no soundtrack since Sega conscripted one of Japan's most celebrated composers, Kenji Kawai, to orchestrate its sounds. Kawai is not a Foley artist, but a musician known for his exemplary work with films like Ghost in a Shell, Avalon, and Ringu. Instead of a continuous soundtrack, Kawai punctuates the actions with light touches of environmental sounds, and shows a restraint that works very well.

The story's premise is wonderfully scripted and the writers should be commended for integrating real-world events and technology so seamlessly into their fiction. For example, the story cites "Project Daedalus" - a proposal made by British scientists in 1973 to send an unmanned probe to a neighboring solar system to determine the feasibility of long space flights. While the actual project was abandoned in 1978, the writers of Deep Fear use this bit of history as the impetus for scientists to conduct "cold sleep" experiments in space. After a space capsule conducting one such experiment lands in the ocean, we discover the strange side effect of these tests ... mutation.

While we have movies like the Abyss, Leviathan, and Deep Star Six, the underwater-sci-fi-horror genre is largely untapped in gaming. If a game like Deep Fear had been released on a more popular system, perhaps that would be different One of the best and most original survival horror games ever released for any system!.

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