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Dominic Tarason

Animal Use Protocol's dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era

Uplifted chimp Penn and cyber-rat Trip in the key art for Animal Use Protocol.

When chimp-and-rat buddy horror adventure Animal Use Protocol was first announced late last year, I felt fear. Not the good kind that tiny South African indie outfit The Brotherhood had so well cultivated with their Stasis point-and-click adventure series, but worries that shifting to a real-time, first-person perspective would ruin the perfectly unpleasant vibes the pre-rendered art of the series was so well known for.

Judging by yesterday’s new gameplay trailer (rolled out during the Future Games Show Spring showcase), I’m no longer worried. About the art, that is. I am however absolutely creeped out by the gameplay that they’ve shown.

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