classics," and attested the one redeeming factor was its plot. The PlayStation release, however, was not a direct port, but an entire reworking of the title that actually received a few positive reviews. Scary Larry gave it a heavily mixed review in GamePro. He lambasted the graphics and sounds, citing poor illustrations for the static graphics and offensive ethnic stereotypes in the voice acting, but said the gameplay is more interesting than most point-and-click adventures. He recommended that players rent the game rather than buy it. Unlike Scary Larry, a reviewer for Next Generation was actually pleased with the illustrations, saying they "give even the relatively 'normal' scenes in the game a strange, ethereal glow." He also praised the dialogue, challenge, and generally chilling atmosphere, though he criticized that the hot-spot based interface makes the control difficult even when using the PlayStation Mouse. He summarized Silverload as "a game that, while following a genre's conventions, simply does everything smashingly well." IGN was also positive, claiming "Great graphics and a compelling horror story set in the Old West make for a truly remarkable game." Like Next Generation, they found the game's one major flaw to be the hot-spot based interface, concurring that using the PlayStation Mouse does not help the problem. In a 2012 retrospective feature, John Szczepaniak of Hardcore Gaming 101 claimed the "PSOne update, has a number of clever ideas to separate itself from the adventure game pack" and praised its "good ideas, fantastic setting, great script and suitable voice acting", also stating "the 3D shooting sections are very slick and extremely awesome." The game is also occasionally listed for being one of the weirdest western works ever created, and the PlayStation version is also considered a collectable for being one of only a handful of titles released in the bumpy-cased longbox packaging. References 1995 video games Adventure games DOS games 1990s horror video games PlayStation (console) games Point-and-click adventure games Psygnosis games Single-player video games Vic Tokai games Video games scored by Richard Joseph Western (genre) video games Millennium Interactive games Video games developed in the United Kingdom