Eternal Darkness

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In all, the player will take control of 12 different characters during different time periods. Each of the characters are related in one way or another, though the primary character is unarguably Alexandra Roivas, who in the game is the end of the bloodline at the moment. The game is a simple hack and slash title. While this in itself isn't innovative, you'll find the uniqueness to the title when your character, and possibly even you, start to go insane.

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If you perform actions that don't go inline with what you're supposed to do, then your sanity meter will start to decrease, and abnormal events will start to occur that will even seem to mess with your TV though in reality it's not. For example, you'll see the volume setting of your TV start to decrease and increase with the sound in the game corresponding with this. Long before humanity graced the universe, or planet belonged to another species- an ancient species bound by neither physics nor nature, purpose nor ethic.

Through the passage of time, against the relentless advance of ice and the continental plates, and for the other inscrutable reasons, these "Ancients" were drvien deep into the recesses of our world. There, they lie imprisoned until the conditions are right for their return. Hungry for dominance and the favor of the Ancients, secret organizations seek to restore the Ancients to their former station.

For eons they have schemed and plotted in the darkness, attempting to bring these evil entities into our world through arcane magicks-blood rituals, worship, and sacrifice. Of these sects, little is known: Their scheming works to bring the Ancients' return-and humanity's extinction-ever closer. Yet not all hope is lost.

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The fate of humanity depends upon the actions of a chosen few. They are average people, unprepared for heroic deeds, but the responsibility is theirs nonetheless. Even as their lives are torn apart by unseens evils, they must show courage in the face not only of the enem, but also of their own fears. These porr souls teeter on the brink of insanity, tortured by the horros of the Ancients. A secret war is being waged on the periphery of Humanity's perceptions-a war wreathed in the shadows and deception.

Sanity's Requiem was originally planned to be one of the last games released for the N Once it slipped that release, it was scheduled to be a GameCube launch title and be shipped in October Eternal Darkness delivers a much deeper experience than Capcom's survival horror series has ever conjured in any of its games.

Control, which coincides with true 3D worlds versus 2D pre-rendered ones, is undeniably tighter, enabling gamers to run and turn swiftly and accurately without worry of the robotic limitations associated with Resident Evil. But beyond this, players have access to much, much more, including weapons and items, of course, but also a wide assortment of magick, which we'll detail below as it's so important to the adventure. It's all intertwined flawlessly and as a result the play experience feels much more polished.

The combat system, one of our biggest gripes with early builds of Eternal Darkness, has come together fairly triumphantly. Players can equip their characters with all sorts of destructive weapons, from historically correct swords and blades to real guns, crossbows, blow-guns, pistols, shotguns and countless others that we couldn't possibly detail.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

The sheer variety is impressive, but perhaps more so is that each weapon affects not only the enemy, but also the player differently. Bigger swords, will, for example, slow the swipe of a small character's swing down, and so on. Some weapons may also conflict with walls in closed environments so players will have to wisely choose which sword to use in certain situations. It all becomes a part of the game's strategic element, a pulsating, tangible thing that is hard to miss. Further improving on the combat aspect of the game is the ability to target specific body parts of foes, something that players will also learn and need to do properly to remain a success.

Immediately targeting and slicing a zombie's head off, for instance, will immediately render the beast a non-threat, as it will be unable to see or find the player afterward, and will instead walk around the immediate area aimlessly. Some monsters take more damage in specific spots, and gamers will slowly but surely learn these weak points.

Indeed, one character is able perform autopsies on the enemies after they are killed to discover their weaknesses, another example of Silicon Knights' overwhelming attention to detail. That's not to say that the combat system is perfect though. Some collision gap problems still persist, though they are not nearly as troublesome as they once were.

By this, we mean that when a player slices an opponent with a sword, there is the occasional error in which it does not look as if the blade really connected. Worse still, when some enemies are killed, they drop to their knees and fall down, and occasionally they actually fall through the body of the player. This serves to take the gamer out of the universe, even if momentarily.

These collision problems are not an issue as they are not commonplace, but a notable drawback all the same. The combat system is totally connected to the use of magick, or spells and enchantments, in the game, which are every bit as important, if not more so. Basically, as players make their way through the adventures, they acquire runes that form various magicks.

That is the very simple explanation of how it works -- it's actually much more complex, but for the purposes of this review we'll keep it slim. There are three primary colors of magick: Red spells work against green spells, green take out blue, and blue conquer red.

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It's this formula that is the base for the amazingly detailed and satisfying magick system. Gamers can perform just about any spell they'd like, from enchanting a sword or gun so that its more powerful to shielding themselves, putting up magick walls that enemies can't walk through, dispelling these same types of enemy walls, and more. It's possible to cast a spell to transform into a trapper, a small scorpion-like beast that shoots out a ray of energy, and then take the animal to spots on levels that the regular character might be too big to go through.

Similarly, players can cast magick to turn into a zombie. Or cast a 'See Invisible' spell to make a secret door hidden in a wall suddenly appear. It's also possible to cast magick to restore health, sanity, or magick even, all of which are measured in bars on the item screen. Players must also learn to balance their magick resources with their health and sanity, a task that is integrated into the strategy of the game, and very well so.

But there's more to the magick system still. The differently colored magicks must be learned and applied correctly to different beasts. Some weapons must be enchanted a specific color in order to trigger events. The magick system runs even deeper though.

Players will eventually be able to make their own spells. The runes symbolize nouns, verbs and adjectives, and if gamers can correctly complete a magick sentence, a unique spell will be born. Different gamers will be able to conjure original spells. According to Silicon Knights, even members of the development team who have played through the game several times have been amazed at the different spell formations they have been able to construct each time through.

There are, in fact, several instances where players will be challenged to form the correct magick sentence in order to conjure a spell needed in a particular spot. The level of satisfaction after correctly doing so cannot easily be measured. Indeed, the magick system as a whole is one of the most intuitive and comprehensive we've played. There are other elements to Eternal Darkness though.

There are puzzles, of course, and a great many of them.

Some are incredibly easy to figure out and others require the use of magick and some careful item retrieving and placement, and therefore are more difficult. But none of the puzzles are so stupidly designed as to totally baffle players. Rather, if one thinks about a puzzle long enough, the answer will present itself in a logical manner within the context of the game universe.

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Unlike the semi-retarded puzzles in the Resident Evil series, in contrast. There are insanity effects -- hallucinations that have a major role within the game. Players will not get specific examples from us. But if a character's sanity bar drops too low, strange things will begin to happen. Very strange things sometimes. These occurrences are sure to set the dark mood of the adventure and have an impact on the play experience.

Going insane too much can create unwanted obstacles for players and in doing so may also endanger one's health and magick supplies. Some of the insanity effects we've encountered have proven very disturbing.

Some even attempt to pick at the mind of the player outside of the game universe. A few of the effects are overused, and one or two of them aren't as scary as they might sound on paper, but overall this element of the game is very welcomed, and players will absolutely adore the crazy things that transpire. And speaking of transpiring, the big question: How long is the game? The adventure is epic, we can assure gamers of that. We estimate that the skilled gamer will have at least 20 hours of play time with the title, and the average one up to twice that.

With a gargantuan, unpredictable storyline to boot, and three branching plot paths available to players each with different outcomes, not to mention altered play mechanics, different monsters, and more , the replay value is equally unprecedented. Eternal Darkness is a game that flows in such a way that players will be drawn to complete the adventure. Plus, hardcore gamers willing to play through the story all three times will be treated to a special uber-ending.

Eternal Darkness presents players with phenomenally beautiful scenes at points and just pretty ones others. The title runs on a slick engine that draws indoor environments, some very large and open, with highly detailed textures and architecture, fantastic lighting effects, radiosity light maps, ray-traced light maps, volumetric fogging and more, all running in bit color. Silicon Knights' game supports progressive scan mode, thank you very much, and 16x9 widescreen mode, again thank you very much. Players will be happy to know that even with multiple polygon monsters on-screen at once, particle and lighting effects in full force, and vast engine-drawn architecture rotating, the framerate never drops -- not even for a moment -- from its 60 frames per second fluidity.

How's that for polish?

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