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Supermodel with Head-Lice

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has a lot of good ideas, and implements a number of them surprisingly well. In fact, almost everything innovative that this game tries, it succeeds at. Going insane feels like you're going insane, bolting doors and shoving bookcases in front of them to stop pursuers is adrenaline-pumping, having to treat the proper injuries that result from different ways of taking damage makes sense within the game, and the creepy atmosphere is so pervasive that you're practically suffocating on it throughout the entire game.

Where it goes wrong is the most trivial, inane, annoying details.

Checkpoint's frequently come only before extensive cutscenes (upwards of several minutes), or before long walks or tough obstacles, so if you make one mistake, not only have you lost all the progress since the last save, but you frequently have to repeat the same lengthy cutscene or retread the exact same long hallways over and over.

Frequent hard-to-see insta-kill traps often leave me wondering exactly why I died, which compounds the problems of the last point.

The game frequently mistakes an intent to bolt a door as an intent to open a door; trying to close a door behind you, oftentimes the door will catch you and push you into whatever is chasing you; for the game to register your attempt to close the door, you have to be standing just so, which can be very hard to do when you're trying to protect someone that's following you.

Then there's the glitches: if you run the game on Vista, a certain segment involving the artillery guns of a naval ship won't work right, and you'll have to download a save game just beyond that point. Also, the final segment in the game is almost literally impossible without some extremely precise bunny-hopping, and I ended up having to cheat to beat it.

In short: this is a very, very good game, much better than I expected, but you have to be able to stomach more questionable design decisions, poor scripting, and buggy interfaces than it's reasonable to expect of any player. A supermodel with headlice, right next to Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

you love CTHULHU? you know you need this...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

if you've played any previous call of cthulhu games, you know what it's all about. fear, ancient evil, your eventual insanity. no happy endings here. another cthulhu-themed classic.

waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This could be a great game, except for the fact that you will be forced to play the same scenes over and over until you get the timing right. Run, open door, lock door, open next door, lock door, move cabinet, open door, lock door. Oops, I accidentally opened the door instead of locking it. Let me watch the cutscene again and try to get the timing right this time...

Don't waste your money.

if you are a true Lovecraft fan you'll love it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very good game, the story is great and those who are haedcore fans of Lovecraft will love it, I just wish it had the option to play on third person view, FPS are so 1990 ;)

Probably the most Lovecraftian game ever to be made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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). There is though help available for how to avoid the bugs, and thereby enable you to enjoy this magnificent game. 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.

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. 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. 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.

(I played the PC version)

Probably the most Lovecraftian game ever to be made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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). There is though help available for how to avoid the bugs, and thereby enable you to enjoy this magnificent game. 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.

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. 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. 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.

(I played the PC version)

Best Cthulhu Game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game despite the annoying save feature and the frustrating time sequences. It was still the best HP LOvecraft based game ever made. I was so looking forward to the 2 sequels hoping that slight improvements would have made a perfect game. Now the company is no more! That sucks!

agree with previous reviews - designers mar a potentially 5 star game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

look I will make it short-the story is well written, graphics are OK, puzzles almost always make sense resulting in a great atmosphere for this horror game. What takes 2 stars off its ranking is asinine game design making fights overly punishing and frustrating and the game is also way too long. Either monkeys were used as testers or the designers do not give a XXmn about players enjoying their moneys worth. I feel cheated that I won`t be able to finish the game after investing 15 plus hours because of bad game design. I hope designers got paid accordingly. Totally unacceptable

Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners Of The Earth

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is great game because it visually brings the dark and gloomy world of the 1920's CoC world to life so well. The story line is orginal and has many surprises for the player. The user interface is not complex and can be mastered in a short time by most players. The only detractors of the game is that it takes a relitively short time to complete and has limited replay value. If you love CoC it's a must buy.

Frustrating!!! Adventure aspect gets ruined by forced timed action sequences.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 27
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"You Are Dead". You will see this screen over and over and over again. You can't skip the many cutscenes so you will have to sit through the same ones over and over again. You can't save so you have that to add to the frustration.

In only the second level of this game called "Attack Of The Fishmen" you will want to hurl this game straight into the trashcan! So very frustrating. You are forced to quickly lock doors behind you in several spots, open windows, and make perfect jumps while being chased. You must do all this without any slight error in timing at all. There are no saves in this game, except for checkpoints in other areas, so you will repeat these types of scenes over and over and over.

This game also has a strange feature that you can't turn off in the options. The main character evidently has a panic attack constantly which makes the sceen constantly go blurry with a loud beating heartbeat. This blurriness makes it down right impossible sometimes to make the many jumps required. It also makes you wonder if this guy chose the right career path or maybe he left his blood pressure meds at home. It is very distracting!

The game is also very linear with cutscene after cutscene. There are so many cutscenes it feels like you are watching a movie sometimes instead of playing a game. The forced timed action sequences should never be in a game without a proper save function.

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