Разработчик: Infogrames
Описание
Whispers in a dusty, secluded library ripple with fear as questions of the past are brought into the present. Is there a link between the return of Halley's comet and the resurgence of the Great Ancients who once dominated the land in a reign of terror? Legend tells tales of an ancient ritual ground, hidden deep in the shadows of the tangled forest, marked by an ornate and mysterious cross. Once, long ago, this site was the stage for wild and terrifying rites that no one dare speak of, lest they suffer the wrath of the Ancients.
Why are the townspeople of Illsmouth struck by such shattering terror? Why are they drawn to the ancient ritual grounds after so many years? What has released this curse from its deep sleep to play havoc upon the souls of innocent people?
You'll take on the role of John T. Carter, a brilliant young astronomer, piecing together the puzzling history of the village and its cryptic inhabitants. Incredibly realistic action and supernatural chaos intertwine to draw players deep into the puzzling mysteries within the Shadow of the Comet.
- Includes the CD-ROM and floppy versions of Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet.
- Bone chilling sound effects that hurtle you into the depths of chaos!
- Confront your deepest fears as you enter once more the realm of Lovecraftian horror!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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What an absolutely insane experience it is playing 30+ year old horror adventure games. The tone swings wildly from truly disturbing to absolutely stupid, the voice acting ranges from surprisingly competent to "your jerkiest friend shouting and breathing into his microphone to annoy you," and much of the game feels like some developers had a huge budget for the era and others were given a cassette tape of spooky Halloween noises and told to do their best.
But that said, oh boy did I have a great time playing through it--with the usual caveat that I absolutely just followed a walkthrough the entire time. Look, it is one thing to do that with a modern game, but this was the era when developers had no problem letting a mistake you made two hours ago render the game unwinnable, and I just cannot accept that level of backtracking even if it might have meant I got more out of the incidental gameplay and worldbuilding details had I played it a little more blind. Definitely something to check out for all Call of Cthulhu fans, especially given how relatively few games the setting has ever had despite its immense popularity and influence.
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I don't think it's a good point and click game. The game gives you zero feedback, e.g: you can't examine items in your inventory to figure out what they even are or might be used for, you must be standing in the exact correct spot to examine environment objects or nothing happens. The brooch didn't do anything when I used it before I needed to to progress. I've seen screenshots where other people have used it before then, I'm not sure if this is a bug.
There are doorways that lead to death pits, you can't even examine them to see that there's anything wrong. Hope you saved before entering. Invisible death pits in the centre of several rooms. Rats kill you by touching you, I'm not sure why. They don't even seem to be eldritch rats or anything. I don't know what's with the spiders, their sprites look like something from an 8-bit game. It was bugging me trying to think what they looked like, I figured it out - the crab-type Space Invaders. Long pauses at the end of voice lines, and the voice lines often run on past the displayed dialogue so if you skip ahead it skips the following dialogue boxes for that line and fast forwards the entire conversation.
A few moon logic puzzles, particularly the feather one and what I don't think is even a puzzle - walk around a random room for a minute until a secret door opens in the wall. There's absolutely no indication to do this. Hope you know which chemicals and order to use them in for the process for developing photographs, that's actually a puzzle. You only have about a 1/3500 chance of guessing it, so you'd better look it up.
I got stuck in unwinnable states twice, once by using the book before getting the key for it, the game would not allow me to use the book again, had to reload and get the key first before looking at it. Second time was if Bishop walks off the screen without giving you a key, you are stuck in an unwinnable state with no idea that anything is actually wrong unless you look it up. I'm unclear as to what was supposed to be happening at the end of the Hambleton house. The protagonist started running but I had no idea what he was running from. Apparently there's supposed to be a fire? I didn't see anything. Maybe it's some kind of emulation error.
The voice actors' attempts at eldritch gibbering are pretty amusing. I also liked that the cat runs around inside your inventory window. It occasionally looks quite nice, the cemetery at night particularly stood out to me. Other times it's some sort of digitized photograph background, it works sometimes, but I'm not really a fan of the effect overall.
I'm pretty disappointed with it since I had heard positive things about it before. Excavation of Hob's Barrow is more like what I thought this game would be.
If you like to take a nostalgic trip with hardcore point and click game with lots of ways to die and difficult puzzles, you might like it
Pour Bruno Bonnell et H.P. Lovecraft - La République En Marche!
This game is one of the hardest and unforgiving adventure games I saw. So hard in fact that I first really enjoyed it on my second playtrough. If you look over the high difficulty demands this game puts on you you will find a brilliant adaption of the famous Lovecraft Story "Shadow over Innsmouth". This is from the same guys that were responsible for the first Alone in The Dark Games which are considered as one of the most influential genre changers in the world of survival horror.
Loved it. Completed it 100% without looking anything up. It's hard though, there are no easy puzzles and the most difficult ones will give you as little clues as humanly possible and no rule applies, so every puzzle requires a different logical approach. Some require different degrees of brute forcing, a common situation is being given incomplete instructions on how to perform something, so you have to figure out the obscure parts.
The art, characters and soundtrack are all great. It's the best possible game for any seasoned old school adventurer that craves real challenge and likes Lovecraft. Avoid if you usually have to look at walkthrough to finish a point and click. This isn't technically a point and click though, as it can and should be played entirely with keyboard.
Some minor bugs here and there, nothing game breaking but you could be forced to reload at times.
Oh and save as frequently as possible, it's that kind of game. There are many ways to die and none to properly see it coming
10/10 chtulu old school adventure
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Infogrames |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 70% положительных (43) |