Double Switch

"Those who said that Night Trap is one of the worst games of all time can't have played Double Switch."

It might be hard to understand today, but games were you didn't control anything and just watched animated movies was considered to be the future for the gaming industri. When the Sega CD got released a lot of full motion video games where released for the system just to show how great graphic a gaming system could have.

While the problem is slowly coming back now, the full motion video games on the Sega CD could be movies where you could press a button to make something different happen. One of the best titles in this genre is Night Trap, where there are real people clips instead of animated movies. However while the game was really fun to play, the acting wasn't anything that made any of the actors famous. So Digital Pictures thought it was a great idea to make a Night Trap clone with just better acting.

Since I'm not from USA I have no idea who any of the actors are, but I guess some of them are known to the American people. The whole game takes place in an apartment complex. A young man named Eddie (who is played by Corey Haim) has been locked up in the basement.

Since the house was so old Eddie invented a camera security system with traps in every room, and now he gives you full control to this security system. To get him out of the basement, your job is to find out 4 different code numbers that can be displayed at some point in every apartment. You also have to make sure that nobody turns of the power supply, and capture any unwelcome guest in the mansion.

So far this game seems like it's just as fun as Night trap, but here all the good things ends. In Night Trap there was a clock displayed so you could write down what you missed and then trap an enemy in your next playthrough. However there's no such feature in Double Switch, which means that you can't enjoy any of the scenes since you have to switch room all time or you won't have a clue what's going on.

Also in every room there are two traps which you have to active manually in this game, unlike Night Trap where you just had to press a button at the correct time. It's also very simple to prepare the wrong trap which sometimes means that you have to start all over. Also Eddie keeps complaining if you don't do good enough and after maybe 15 minutes of playing you just want to punch him in the face.

The game has a much harder difficulty than Night Trap, but there also are almost no time where you can just relax and watch any of the scenes in this game. The control is very confusing until you have mastered it and the whole game just isn't as fun as Night Trap. And as I said before since I have no idea who Corey Haim, Deborah Harry or R. Lee Ermey are, I prefer to protect teenage girls than releasing a maniac from his basement. To me, Double Switch was a big disappointment.

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 04/17/07