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Better than prisoners of ice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have always been a huge fan of Lovecraftian games be they PC pencil&paper or board games. This is a ferocious interpretation of H.P.L.'s legendary work. Bethesda's history of providing ridiculous amounts of sandbox play is a perfect fit with Lovecrafts characters who were usually wandering with no more ambitious goal than to see something fantastic and eerie. I recommend this game to anyone but if you have ever played GTA or Morrowind and enjoy the Horror genre then this is probably the best you can do right now.

You have got to be kidding me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

All these people rating this game so low! Are you serious? This is the greatest horror game I have ever played. The atmosphere is amazing and it has so many intense moments. Everyone is complaining about how "difficult" and "unfair" it is. I completed the "Attack of the Fishmen" part (the one everyone seems to complain about) after three tries! Just be patient when playing this game. Some people are just too used to other types of games. 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. Everyone is going to disagree with me, but this game, in my opinion, is much better than any "Resident Evil" game or anything else. Also, I am a fan of H.P. 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). The length is great, and it is cool how you have no weapons until almost the middle of the storyline. 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).

Wasted Opportunity

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth started out as being one of the best representations of the H.P. Lovecraft world that I have ever seen in a computer game. The game started out great, being totally immersive with a great story line. But the game ultimately failed due to a sanity system that makes the world go blurry, controls not work, and the character move slowly. As the world goes uncontrollably blurry, you are expected to run, shut and lock doors, climb ladders, jump balconies all while baddies easily hack away at you.This game should come with a motion sickness warning. I can not believe that this game was actually play tested. If you must have this game, rent it.

Wah!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Being a huge H.P.L. fan, I was hyped beyond all compare when they announced the release of this game...ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO!

Anyway, after hearing date push-back news for years, I gave up. Then, one day at Bookman's I see it used for 19 bucks!! I think "SCORE".

I should have known that when I tried to tell the sales person the name of the game so he could take it out of the locked cabinet and while pronouncing it, I spit all over his face and he punched me in the eye, that I should leave this one alone.

Of course, I have to do eveything the hard way, I ran home with it...then wondered why I didn't drive.....oh well.

The game sticks really close to the HPL stories and has nice, super-creepy visual scenery, but it plays about like games from the early days of playstation. the whole time I played it, I wondered, "where's all the neato, high-speed things they kept talking about, like non-track, and all the interactive things that don't exist?"

Trying to get past the Innsmouth folk was a nightmare, and caused my game controller to riccochet off of every wall in the house. there was other spots that were equally hard, but i don't want to ruin the game for others.

I guess I could have just said, "okay, if your a gamer that loves HPL stories, try it out", but I drank too much coffee today, so I felt I had to ramble.

Mildly amusing. Highly annoying

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While this game certainly passes the time, I for one found it to be more annoying that anything else. Puzzles are great. I like puzzles, but in MODERATION! For crying out loud, once one puzzle is finished in this game, another one starts. There are occasional gun fights and chases with the bad guys, but overall this is a puzzle game. Games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill have richly layered stories and a wide variation in the actions required by the player. This game, however, is closer to Tetris in that it focuses so much on the puzzles. All of this pales in comparison to the one feature that really makes this a C- / D+ level game. Folks, I am talking about one of the most annoying features ever in a video game: the blurry screen. Whenever your character takes damage, starts to lose him mind, or encounters a ledge (he's afraid of heights, see), the screen becomes blurry to reflect his conditions, and you will barely be able to see what's going on. The result is that you will basically be unable to control your character until the blurriness passes, which can take 10-20 seconds. In the meantime, you will flee into enemies or towards a drop-off. This frequently happens at inopportune times and will result in your death. It's so annoying that I cannot believe this feature made it out of the test phase.

In my opinion, Resident Evil and Silent Hill are far superior to this. Fortunately for me, this game was a gift, and I am selling it back as soon as possible.

Too much for the Xbox.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Without a doubt, Dark Corners is an ambitious game. The setting is wonderful, the graphics, sound, and level design good, the HUDless system innovative.

Unfortunately, it's too ambitious for the hardware. In the early levels it's adequate, but by the end of the game Dark Corners becomes a sludgefest of stuttering sound and graphics. How does this happen on a console game? The designers had to know what resources they had available, and should have reduced the effects to make it playable.

On a fast PC - with fixes for the minor bugs - this would be a 5 star game, but the inexplicable failure to tune the game for the platform is completely unacceptable.

Cthulha: Dark Corners of the Earth

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 28
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I found the game rather boring. The load time was aweful you just start to get the thrill and you have to wait for load. It just got frustrating. I wanted to love it, I wanted to love it, I wanted to really but I just can't * Cry

Hello?!?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With all of my heart, my friends, this is the best game I've played in a hundred years. It took 5 whole years to make this game, and it shows. Immersive is the word. Nothing's immersed me this way. You should try it, and see for yourself.

had potential

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I gave up on this during the chase scene when those guys were chasing you in the hotel due to slow controls, blurry screens and slow movement. Very annoying, this game should have been alot better.

Pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ill admit, im not to big into mystery games and solving puzzles. But for some reason, this game kept my interest, and it still does, because I havnt beaten it yet.Im planning on succsefully completing this game although I have been using alot of cheats.

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