Gray Matter spills into 2008

By Robert Purchese Published 22 January, 2007

Bits of brain everywhere.

Much like brains tumbling out of a Zombie's sandwich, adventure title Gray Matter has slipped into Q1 2008.

It was thought to be on track for a fourth-quarter release this year, but publisher dtp Entertainment has since said that it needed more time:

"We want to give the development team, the development process, and the game itself more time," it told GameSpot, illustrating how it needed more time. And that.

Gray Matter is the first game by Jane Jensen since the release of Gabriel Knight 3 in 1999. It tells the story of two characters, neurobiologist Dr. David Styles, and part-time street performer Samantha Everett.

You will be able to control both of them, as things start to go inexplicably wrong at Dread Hill House, Styles' English country estate. Find out the truth and confront questions over the nature of reality and how our minds construct the world we take for granted.

Details are scarce on the title, but a little adventure around the Internet should bump you into some more detailed accounts of the game.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Eraser #1 5 years ago

    ohh I thought this was about the developer Gray Matter (who did Return To Castle Wolfenstein's singleplayer portion)

  • L42yB #2 5 years ago

    lol :) Seems no-one cares about this...

  • jackstar #3 5 years ago

    It was announced back in 2003? i have an idea for the game, what you do is this. you take the unfinished game to the nearest bin, drop it in, walk away and feel happy that you have saved the worlds gaming population from playing a polished turd.

  • IAmBatman #4 5 years ago

    He should have known something would go wrong when he moved into a place called "Dread Hill House".

    I thought adventure games were meant to have good writing?

  • Veldaban #5 5 years ago

    Pity about the non-existent or derisive comments, the description sounds interesting enough. But well done on picking up on a single, trivial element and condemn the entire quality of the storytelling in the game.

  • IAmBatman #6 5 years ago

    Thanks!

    Seriously, you think the story of a neurobiologist and a part-time street performer in a secluded country estate called "Dread Hill House" sounds good? I would be interested in finding out the truth about how _your_ mind constructs the world.

  • Veldaban #7 5 years ago

    It could be good or it could be bad, but it certainly doesn't sound any worse than 99% of the storylines of other videogames. Especially when reading the description on the linked page.
    Though I was referring more to "Find out the truth and confront questions over the nature of reality and how our minds construct the world we take for granted" that sounded interesting. True, we don't know yet if it will succeed or fail but like a game like Fahrenheit, at least it's trying SOMEthing.