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Here, women prey on an unsuspecting man using, for instance, sex and hypnosis to lure him in and do him harm.

This version of Vertigo portrays women in a way that is seriously difficult to stomach in a post-#MeToo era. It is almost worth playing for the part where an elderly man is, apparently convincingly, impersonated by a 24-year-old woman in a trenchcoat and sunglasses. If you thought the film was convoluted, try getting your head around this nonsense. Everything happens in service of an increasingly ridiculous story, which reduces a film that featured male obsession, the male gaze and the ways in which victims unknowingly facilitate their own abuse, to the vendetta of a psychopath with a seemingly unlimited supply of drugs. The story follows a man named Ed Miller, who enters therapy to cope with the mysterious after-effects of a car crash. It is loosely based on the films of Alfred Hitchcock, particularly Vertigo (1958). You might reasonably expect that a game named after the film Vertigo would, you know, follow the plot of Vertigo, but no. Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo is an adventure video game developed by the Spanish company Pendulo Studios and published by Microids. Dialogue, presumably recorded separately by actors alone in sound booths, sounds like two people having two different conversations (“What am I going to do without my husband?” “Well, you could start by making dinner”). Awkward animation and mediocre voice acting certainly don’t help. Photograph: Microidsĭue to its big licence and popular influences, it comes as a particularly sharp disappointment that the writing in the game version of Vertigo is the worst thing about it. Awkward animation and mediocre voice acting … Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo.