Call of Cthulhu

[DogMeat]

It finally got released and made it to budget bins before Xmas, where I picked it up.

I like it. But...

It's very linear - you have to do A, then B, then C, rinse and repeat, ad infinitum, which takes away a lot from the game.  OK, I came to it from playing Oblivion which is about as fas as you can get from the game-on-rails format, but it's annoying to have gone through a section of the game and then be baulked because you didn't notice a tiny section of wall you had to press to open a door to get to a switch which revealed a lever in another room which released... You get the idea.

All of which is a pity because the look and feel of the game is excellent - the claustrophobic town of Innsmouth (so far), the surly inhabitants, the complete and total lack of any type of HUD, the use of sanity to affect your health - all conspire to bring the work of Lovecraft off the page and onto your screen in a recognisable fashion.  

Because it's a more of a First Person Adventure in the style of the old text-only adventure games, the narrative structure (for me, at least) gets in the way a bit.  It can be frustrating, to say the least.

Still, if you find it going cheap and you're a fan of ol' H.P. I'd recommend it for a few hours diversion from your usual pixie, racer or terrorist lifestyle.  You might just scare yourself...

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu f'tagn!

[Gorion]

umm... this game has been out for quite a lot of time in the us...

gl with the bridge

[Bastet]

he did say he pulled it out of the budget bins :narnar:

[Gorion]

he did say he pulled it out of the budget bins :narnar:

*cough* sorry was fast reading, took less then 30 sec

[DogMeat]

*cough* sorry was fast reading, took less then 30 sec

I mentioned it in the first sentence.  :doh: