Gray Matter (video game)

Gray Matter is a classic adventure game for PC and Xbox 360 of the French development studio Wizarbox and was published in 2010. Was designed the game from the U.S. American Jane Jensen, a writer and game designer who is known in the games field primarily through the adventure series Gabriel Knight from the 90s.

Action

Gray Matter plays in the area around present-day Oxford. The neurobiologist Dr. David Styles has lost his wife in an accident several years before the plot of the game and has since lived retired in his mansion called Dread Hill House, where he will always be haunted by his dead wife. But then he unexpectedly meets on the American student and street artist Samantha "Sam" Everett. The attractive woman has traveled in recent years Europe to get to know foreign cultures and learn more tricks in her passion for the magic.

In order to continue her studies, she is now in Oxford and remains at the beginning of the game with her ​​motorcycle near Styles' mansion lie. It is raining heavily and then she finds in the Dread Hill House shelter. The neurobiologists over it poses as its new student assistant what Sam goes well because it anyway just has money troubles. The first task is to find Sam at Oxford University volunteers for an experiment.

During the game, the player takes alternately the two main characters ( Sam Everett and David Styles ). The story is a genre mix of mystery thriller, science thriller and love story. Jane Jensen has this scientific and historical facts mixed as in Gabriel Knight with fiction, so that the players wonder what is real and what is not.

Technology

Graphically, the game features 3D characters before rendered backgrounds. The music is by Jensen's husband Robert Holmes.

Special Edition

For the PC, a special edition has been released. Next to the game This includes the soundtrack on a separate CD, playing cards and five postcards in game design and a double-sided poster and is packaged in a large Steelbook.