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Product Details:
Product Weight:
0.31 pounds
Package Length:
7.4 inches
Package Width:
5.4 inches
Package Height:
1.0 inches
Package Weight:
0.3 pounds
Release Date:
February 12, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 7 reviews
Game Information:
Platform:
Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows
Media:
CD-ROM
Item Quantity:
1
Description:
Return for more first-person horror adventure in Penumbra: Black Plague. Picking up where Penumbra: Overture left off, this stand-alone sequel continues Philip's struggle to find the truth about his family's mystery. Join him and journey to the darkest, most terrifying locales he's ever faced. Somehow, Philip must find the courage to press on as enemies lurk in the shadows. Sift through a scattered collection of discarded letters, cryptic journals and forgotten diaries. Can you survive long enough to piece together the clues? Move carefully through a fully interactive world containing amazingly realistic physics. Manipulate the light as you wish, illuminating your surroundings to confront your adversaries and darkening the room to remain hidden. Black Plague blends mental and physical gameplay elements in a captivating way. Sometimes you must think your way through baffling puzzles. Other times you'll confront freakish adversaries head-on. A stunning system of adaptive motion blur and multichannel 3D positional audio adds to the in-game chills ? when panic sets in, you'll hear Philip's breathing quicken. Should he persevere to the end, he'll see the secrets of his past and present come to light.
Adaptive motion blur and multichannel 3D positional audio mirror Philip's fading abilities and increasing fright Piece together clues from a scattered collection of discarded letters, cryptic journals and forgotten diaries Windows Vista / XP
Features:
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Cutting-edge game engine featuring modern 3D and physics technologies, compelling, detailed story, highly interactive environments
Customer Reviews:
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The end made it worth itNov 11, 2008 I thought this game was better than the first game, Penumbra Overture. You still have timed puzzles, WASD interface instead of point-and-click, specific save points, and attacks by creatures that you can't kill. I liked the research facility environment. This game does finally fill in the story and has an ending that I found satisfying. You don't actually have to play the first game because this game fills you in on what happened before. I only paid $10 for this and it was definitely worth it.
Brav-o 5 starsNov 01, 2008 finally a five star adventure game for us all. Creepy, atmospheric and filled with well designed puzzles, Penumbra BP will test your adventurer skills to the limit. Note that there are several action sequences in the game so for pure adventure gamers BP will be tougher than the usual. Still , we need more titles like this! Bravo
Penumbra: Black Plague- a gaming gemOct 02, 2008 You might have found this game after you played the original Penumbra game. Or maybe you saw the old engine tech demo Frictional released. I am here to tell you, this game is superb, and at the price it is, you have no excuse not to buy it, AND its predecessor.
The original Penumbra was similar in some ways- it was all physics based, which was still relatively new at the time. It had engaging, brain-bending puzzles, a compelling story line, and an atmosphere that was rich and encompassing. Still, there were some things, such as the combat system, which held it back a bit. Overture has stripped out all that was wrong with the original game, and the result is a masterpiece.
First and foremost, this is a horror game. And it is scary as hell. Aside from maybe Fatal Frame, this is the creepiest game I have played for a very long time. It achieves this in the way the best horror novels do, through intense psychological discord, and visuals which are quite nice, even now (2008). Light plays a huge part in the game, as the game is entirely lit per-pixel, and oftentimes you have to rely various tools to light your path (glowsticks, flashlight, flares, using lighter on gasoline, etc). It shares mechanics with light-based games such as Splinter cell, where you are concealed from enemies by darkness. MAKE NO MISTAKE, this is NOT Doom 3. Enemies will not be lunging out at you, and your flashlight is your friend, not your enemy.
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Because the combat has been entirely stripped from the game, you RARELY actually kill your enemies. In fact, aside from maybe one instance (where you use a physics trap to kill an enemy), you never engage them. This is part of what makes the game so frightening. Unlike Doom, where you run in with guns blazing, the protagonist here is just an ordinary guy, and he/you are afraid of ALL enemies.
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Another interesting aspect of this game, which to my knowledge is still pretty much unique, is the mechanism by which you interact with the environment. In games like Half Life 2, you have superficial contact with the environment- throwing enemies, rocks, etc. Here, the player is completely in the first person. You use a "hand" cursor to manipulate your surroundings in an extremely realistic way. To open drawers, you pull on them and look inside. Same with doors and nearly everything else. Heavy objects are harder to move, etc. Surprisingly, this almost never gets in the way, and adds to the game's amazing realism.
The way you can "observe" objects is reminiscent of old point-and-click adventure games, and is marvelously cerebral. The puzzles you encounter are all logic-based, and the solution is often something so mundane, like picking up a plank to lay across a chasm so you can cross it, that people who are used to fantastical magic-staff hunting may be stumped initially. There are NO pixel hunts in this game.
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The sound is superb and immersive, that's all that needs to be said.
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The game's story is quite good, at least compared to most games nowadays, with a chilling Lovecraftian denouement. You can probably piece together most of the story throughout the game though, from various notes and such you find.
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One gripe some people might have with the game is the length- this game took me ~7 hours to finish, which is a tad short compared to some other games. Others might finish it in 6, and others might finish in 10. Personally, when I finished the game, it felt like just the right length, especially after having played the first one.
For the bargain price you can buy this game, the length is a non-issue. You can buy the first and second acts for less than a new console game, and together they would be longer.
Friends, this game is so unique and interesting, you would be doing yourself a disservice by overlooking it. Penumbra: Overture is a worthy addition to any game library, and a must-buy for any horror/survival aficionado.
My Score: [88/100]
great short gameAug 28, 2008 did not really expect this game to be super but it surprised me. alot of inventiveness went in and it is fun overcoming the challenges.
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Not compatible with a computer with IntelJun 29, 2008 Just ordered this game and cannot play it. I read great reviews that it was one of the scariest adventure games of all time. According to what I've read, it will not play on a computer with Intel.
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