30 Days of Gaming - Day Twelve

So there's this thing going around on facebook at the moment, where you post a picture a day that fits within a specific theme. I've chosen, for my first 30 Days, to go with Gaming.

Day Twelve - A Game Everybody Should Play

It took me a few minutes to figure out which game I thought everybody should play. But here it is:



One of only a few games that are directly based on H.P. Lovecraft's weird-fiction, it is by far my favourite. A First Person Shooter with a twist; you spend at least half of the game without a weapon.

Apparently it was meant to be a part of an entire series, but this one was so badly recieved that all plans for the future were dropped. Oddly, however, everybody I've spoken to that has played the game has loved it.

It's got a fairly intriguing storyline, a mixture of several of Lovecraft's best pieces, but the most prominent feature is the gameplay.

The main character is scared of heights, for instance, so every time he nears a ledge he panics and the screen goes blurry. Spend too long at the ledge, and he'll go crazy. Gameplay elements like this crop up all over the place, making the game far more inventive than any other FPS at the time (with the exception, perhaps, of the System Shock series).

The health system is based upon damage of the body parts, much like Fallout 3. If the character breaks his legs, you have to splint them and take pain killers to carry on...don't have splints of pain killers? Yep, you're pretty much screwed, and you can try and walk all you want but it won't get you very far.

There are many more reasons for why everybody should play this game, but I don't want to spoil much, so I'll just leave you with the trailer and move along.