The first thing that stands out to me about Dementium: The Ward is the big fat Gamecock logo on the cover (Strangely enough, I couldn't find a picture of the box art with the Gamecock logo in the spot where my copy has it). Yes, I'm ignoring the pained man on the cover and I'm drawn to the lower right-hand corner. Gamecock was a weird bird of a company. They hit the scene, being all crazy and stealing the microphone from Ken Levine at the 2007 VGAs, with their chief advisors El Presidente Harry Miller, Spiritual Advisor to the Hardcore Mike Wilson, and Dar Kommisar Rick Stults. They did have some cool values, though; Developers retained the rights to their own IPs.

The three dudes in charge of Gamecock

Then, they were bought by Southpeak in 2008. In all honesty, I'm not sure if Renegade Kid, developers of Dementium and the recently released sequel, own the rights to this anymore. I hope they do, and I also hope Red Fly Studio still has the rights for Mushroom Men, another Gamecock-published game (though released after Southpeak bought them), so that way Red Fly can go back and make a sequel.

Dementium always seemed like a cool game, and from the buzz I heard about it, it was. Our own Zach Miller enjoyed the game despite some issues. I was always reticent of playing it because I don't like the idea of playing a first-person shooter on DS. My experience with the Metroid Prime Hunters demo on my launch DS Phat completely turned me away.

Totally never cared for this.

But there's another Dementium game out, and Moon, another Renegade Kid-developer DS game, also looked interesting. I'm thinking it's time to give this game a shot.

Also, it's supposedly "Doom 3 meets Silent Hill" according to the cover art. That is a rather dated comment at this point. Doom 3 is an afterthought, and Silent Hill's latest game was light on scares and high on psychological thrilling.