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Curse: The Eye of Isis

Strange things are happening at Great Britain’s museum of natural history in 1890. A gang of ruthless thugs has broken into the establishment, the Eye of Isis Egyptian statue has been stolen, and a mysterious…

65 21 October 2003 ESRB M

Curse: The Eye of Isis is an adventure developed by Asylum Entertainment, released 21 October 2003 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Curse: The Eye of Isis is

Curse: The Eye of Isis is an adventure game developed by Asylum Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Strange things are happening at Great Britain’s museum of natural history in 1890. A gang of ruthless thugs has broken into the establishment, the Eye of Isis Egyptian statue has been stolen, and a mysterious fog has overtaken a number of areas of the museum killing and transforming all it comes into contact with.
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How it plays

Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Curse: The Eye of Isis holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium® III 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM and GeForce III or ATI Radeon 9000. 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 1GB.

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What it launched against

Curse: The Eye of Isis launched on 21 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Curse: The Eye of Isis — frequently asked questions

When did Curse: The Eye of Isis come out?
Curse: The Eye of Isis was released on 21 October 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Curse: The Eye of Isis?
At minimum, Curse: The Eye of Isis needs Pentium® III 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM, GeForce III or ATI Radeon 9000 graphics, 700 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Curse: The Eye of Isis?
The PC version needs about 0.7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("700 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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