Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Play as both Gabriel Knight and Grace Nakimura as you learn more about what is hidden in the hills of France.
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is an adventure developed by Sierra On-Line, released 5 October 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1999. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on G-Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is a point-and-click adventure game created by Jane Jensen, developed and published by Sierra Studios, and released for Microsoft Windows in 1999. The sequel to 1995's The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, the game's story focuses on the lives of Gabriel Knight and Grace Nakimura as they become involved in a case to track down a kidnapped infant, becoming embroiled in a mystery that involves vampires, the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, and Jesus within the Languedoc province of France; the story itself is inspired by a real-life treasure conspiracy associated to the area.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible. 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. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned launched on 5 October 1999, within three weeks of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Grand Theft Auto 2 and Homeworld. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Grand Theft Auto 2, Homeworld.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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