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Vol. I · No. 2964 · 2005
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-pe…”
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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. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Set mostly in the year 1922, the story follows Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective hired to investigate a disappearance case in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States.
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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…
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Steam · the verdict
Steam Score
68%
“Mixed”
Reviews
3,319
“On record”
Now playing
4
“Concurrent”
IGDB
80
“Aggregate”