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For the price it is a great survival and adventure game.Plays well on xbox 360 too.
Lovecraft game." when I saw the title. Sounds hard right, yeah well this game is ridiculous when it comes to survival. The first person action, well there really isn't any. The details are great and I have spoken with others who absolutely adore the game. Their concept of going insane is my idea of a DWI stop. I saw an ad for this game in an old issue of Game Informer.
I was thinking Doom when I read First Person, Eternal Darkness when I read insanity meter, and "Thank the gods, they finally made a H.P. A warning to those who aren't into H.P.
They advertised First Person action, insanity meter, and of course Cthulhu. It was as if they had to change the storyline to make the game play better, but really they ruined up the only thing they had going from the start.
Lovecraft, you will most likely hate this title. You really can't screw up the story of Cthulhu, so that bit was all right but done very sloppy.
You spend most of your time running away from creepy villagers, and not in the fun way like in RE4. All right, turns out to be 2 strikes and one ball.
The insanity meter is pretty bad, no mind-blowing hallucinations like in Eternal Darkness, just a bunch of pounding and blurred vision. Imagine playing through Silent Hill without getting your first weapon until you're in the hospital.
overall one of a kind game and actually pretty scary and intene. phenominal game. I don't even find games like resident evil or silent hill 2 to be scary or intense like this. hell of a game with great graphics on my 360 and great surround sound with an enthralling storyline and detailed world. the blurryness is from your panic and if you do well, you won't be very blurry but if you keep looking at the guys breaking down doors that you lock behind you, or get shot a couple times, it goes downhill fast, but that is what makes it so intense. like the other guy, i am about 21 percent through the game but i found the chase exhilerating, like no other in any game. i wish they made more games like this where you actually do things and flesh out the story before going in guns blazing (like half life 1). very good for a mature gamer who has other games like devil may cry and halo to satisfy my bloodlust.
You will crawl and run and sneak around investigating why someone is trying to kill you in Innsmouth, what happened to a missing grocery clerk and basically what is really going on in and around town, with all kinds of scary incidents occurring. Basically, if you've read the tale, you'll now play it. I waited years and years for this game to come out, checking in on the forum belonging to the now vanished company again and again for news about this game based on the literary works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the well-known author of horror and weird tales in the early 1900's. To make a long story short, through the work of a single individual with helpers, the game finally came out AFTER the company was gone, and that is the reason for the few bugs remaining in the game (there might be an update available by now, I don't know).
The game is excellently made, and if they had only made more games so true to HPL's fantastic tales, I would be a much happier man. The few bugs in the game are easy to crack, and once you've done this, you'll have on your hands a game that is almost right-along up there with "Planescape : Torment" in depth and story. The story is mostly based on "The Shadow of Innsmouth", a classic tale of degeneration and despair, and one of my 3 personal favourites in the HPL canon. There is though help available for how to avoid the bugs, and thereby enable you to enjoy this magnificent game.
The pc-game really is an electronic version of the classic pen & paper RPG "The Call of Cthulhu", and I enjoyed every second of it to the fullest. (I played the PC version)
I agree, it is a fairly difficult game, but you won't have too many problems if you just take your time and also look for help online (I needed walkthrough help a few times). Also, I am a fan of H.P. Everyone is going to disagree with me, but this game, in my opinion, is much better than any "Resident Evil" game or anything else. All these people rating this game so low.
This is the greatest horror game I have ever played. Everyone is complaining about how "difficult" and "unfair" it is. Are you serious. That's one of the reasons why I love this game, you can't just rush through a level or mission, you need to take your time and study the environment. Lovecraft's stories, and it helps to be a little familiar with some of the things in the game (mainly "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and some of "The Call of Cthulhu" are partly what this game is based on).
Some people are just too used to other types of games. I completed the "Attack of the Fishmen" part (the one everyone seems to complain about) after three tries. The atmosphere is amazing and it has so many intense moments. Just be patient when playing this game. The length is great, and it is cool how you have no weapons until almost the middle of the storyline.
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