Malek
05-30-2006, 05:48 AM
To anybody who know the Call of Cthulhu serie, writen by H.P. Lovecraft or to any horror/suspense lover, this game is a straight call for you.
This thrilling game take place in the H.P. Lovecraft's universe, a world where deep seas and ages old cavern hide some weird but incredibly powerful creatures that once rules earth.
Readers of the Lovecraft's novels will be astounished by all the details took by the creators to make this game truly connected to the novels.I just began the game, being stuck in a scene where I have to escape from rooms to rooms from a horde of tainted-one, in an old and delabred hotel in the core of Innsmouth.
If you ever played Perfect Dark, on the Game Cube, you will see some similarities. During all the game, when you encounter surnatural, gore or freak out things, your character loose sanity. The screen can get blury, the colors can vanish away, leaving you with a black and white vision, your leg may get shaky, changing controls and slowing you down.
Same thing when you get hurt, wounds to the leg will make you slower, being hit in the arms will render you almost incapable of using firearms. To help you encountering with these injuries, you can tend your wound, make suture or even use a wooden stick to consolidate a broken bone. If things get real bad, all left is morphine, but watch out, a shot make you high as hell. The healing system is fairly good. All the medic you take have to be designed on a specific wound. You don't heal all your wounds at once.
The game starts like this.
An introduction cinematic plays, it's in the Arkham Asyleum, in 1922. You can see a man in a room, the walls and ground covered with a multitude of symbols, signs and strange letters. Sitting on the ground, he is reading a book, written by his own hands, depicting what drove him crazy. Finally, he hang hiself and is saved just in time by the guard.
This man is your main character, you discover it by succeding in the first mission, an investigation that drive the detective under the earth, in a strange lab, and finally to his contact with Something.This is 6 years before, the mission tells you why you finished in an asylum.
So far am I, the second mission, I only know the main "enjeu" of the second mission. All I can say is that Innsmouth is freaky as Hell, all the peoples on the road too, I found a lady hanged in a room, I unleashed a strange monster from a prison-like room in a cellar, I saw a 6 years old girl get her face ripped by a huge monster, and I ran from a whole town for my live. Pay attention to all the small things, in someplace you can heard strange growling from the walls, the character will give his perspective of the things of about any object, paintings, photos, rooms.
If you like horror/suspense game, not like F.E.A.R wich was more like a shoot-em-out, nor like Doom who was a bullshit wanna-be "horror" game. More likely to be compared with Silent Hill. Excellent story, great atmospher.
Sure I am a Lovecraft lover, I enjoy all the scene depicted with great talent in the game, but I'm sure anybody could like it.
This thrilling game take place in the H.P. Lovecraft's universe, a world where deep seas and ages old cavern hide some weird but incredibly powerful creatures that once rules earth.
Readers of the Lovecraft's novels will be astounished by all the details took by the creators to make this game truly connected to the novels.I just began the game, being stuck in a scene where I have to escape from rooms to rooms from a horde of tainted-one, in an old and delabred hotel in the core of Innsmouth.
If you ever played Perfect Dark, on the Game Cube, you will see some similarities. During all the game, when you encounter surnatural, gore or freak out things, your character loose sanity. The screen can get blury, the colors can vanish away, leaving you with a black and white vision, your leg may get shaky, changing controls and slowing you down.
Same thing when you get hurt, wounds to the leg will make you slower, being hit in the arms will render you almost incapable of using firearms. To help you encountering with these injuries, you can tend your wound, make suture or even use a wooden stick to consolidate a broken bone. If things get real bad, all left is morphine, but watch out, a shot make you high as hell. The healing system is fairly good. All the medic you take have to be designed on a specific wound. You don't heal all your wounds at once.
The game starts like this.
An introduction cinematic plays, it's in the Arkham Asyleum, in 1922. You can see a man in a room, the walls and ground covered with a multitude of symbols, signs and strange letters. Sitting on the ground, he is reading a book, written by his own hands, depicting what drove him crazy. Finally, he hang hiself and is saved just in time by the guard.
This man is your main character, you discover it by succeding in the first mission, an investigation that drive the detective under the earth, in a strange lab, and finally to his contact with Something.This is 6 years before, the mission tells you why you finished in an asylum.
So far am I, the second mission, I only know the main "enjeu" of the second mission. All I can say is that Innsmouth is freaky as Hell, all the peoples on the road too, I found a lady hanged in a room, I unleashed a strange monster from a prison-like room in a cellar, I saw a 6 years old girl get her face ripped by a huge monster, and I ran from a whole town for my live. Pay attention to all the small things, in someplace you can heard strange growling from the walls, the character will give his perspective of the things of about any object, paintings, photos, rooms.
If you like horror/suspense game, not like F.E.A.R wich was more like a shoot-em-out, nor like Doom who was a bullshit wanna-be "horror" game. More likely to be compared with Silent Hill. Excellent story, great atmospher.
Sure I am a Lovecraft lover, I enjoy all the scene depicted with great talent in the game, but I'm sure anybody could like it.