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IS THIS GAME DEFECTIVE???????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have replaced this game three times but yet the game freezes up in the exact same spot. Nobody seems to have the same problem. These are the Natural defects that "they" don't want you to know. No other game in my collection has done this(NONE).Sigh... sad that I have to type a disclaimer for such an original game. The game is exciting but this bug I'm experiencing just fu**ed it all up. Boy, these so called game testers sure missed alot of glitches. And no, its not my xbox because 1. All of my games would be doing the same thing and 2. I just had the damn hard drive replaced. The fact of the matter is when I buy a game or anything for that matter, I want it to work.

THANK YOU

Probably the most Lovecraftian game ever to be made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 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)

oh my gosh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

phenominal game. like the other guy, i am about 21 percent through the game but i found the chase exhilerating, like no other in any game. 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. 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). overall one of a kind game and actually pretty scary and intene. 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. very good for a mature gamer who has other games like devil may cry and halo to satisfy my bloodlust.

All that's going for this game is its Lovecraft roots.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I saw an ad for this game in an old issue of Game Informer. They advertised First Person action, insanity meter, and of course Cthulhu. 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. Lovecraft game!" when I saw the title. All right, turns out to be 2 strikes and one ball. The first person action, well there really isn't any. You spend most of your time running away from creepy villagers, and not in the fun way like in RE4. The insanity meter is pretty bad, no mind-blowing hallucinations like in Eternal Darkness, just a bunch of pounding and blurred vision. Their concept of going insane is my idea of a DWI stop. You really can't screw up the story of Cthulhu, so that bit was all right but done very sloppy. 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. The details are great and I have spoken with others who absolutely adore the game. A warning to those who aren't into H.P. Lovecraft, you will most likely hate this title. Imagine playing through Silent Hill without getting your first weapon until you're in the hospital. Sounds hard right, yeah well this game is ridiculous when it comes to survival.

great survival game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

For the price it is a great survival and adventure game.Plays well on xbox 360 too.

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.

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.

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

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.

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