Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-horror game with a fairly realistic and immersive first-person shooter, with good stealth elements. The game is based on the works of H. P…
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is an adventure developed by Headfirst Productions, released 24 October 2005 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 20.1 hrs to finish.
What Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is an adventure game developed by Headfirst Productions and released in 2005. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Following the introduction sequence set in Arkham Asylum psychiatric hospital, the game begins on September 6, 1915, as police detective Jack Walters (voiced by Milton Lawrence) is summoned to a decrepit manor house in Boston, Massachusetts. The manor is inhabited by a small bizarre cult called the Fellowship of the Yith, led by one Victor Holt who has asked specifically for Walters to come and talk to him. Taking cover from an ensuing firefight, Jack finds himself separated from the police and trapped inside the mansion, with no option but to investigate. When the rest of the police finally break in, they find the cultists dead by mass suicide and Walters apparently insane. He is committed…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 135 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 3 800Mhz, 128MB RAM and DirectX 9.0 3D compliant Video Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth launched on 24 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Mario Kart DS.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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