Save your money and avoid this game. Poor game play made me give up after 2 hours
While it seems interesting enough, I can’t recommend this game to anyone. I have only played this game for 2 hours and already regret picking it up.
The first part of the game was interesting and the "Escape from Innsmoth" part makes this game not worth your time.
The scenario "Attack of the Fishmen" ended the game for me. You have to make your way out of a series of hotel rooms or be killed by a mob of villagers. All right, this is just a "figure out the pattern" section (this type of game play I normally despise and this game is a good example of why I hate it.)
Your character is in a hotel room asleep and must run through a series of rooms, bolting them from behind or moving objects in from of the doors. Frustrated at performing these feats much too slowly, allowing the fishmen to break down the door and kill my character. I found an online FAQ. Now even knowing what I was supposed to do, I still cannot perform the feats quickly enough to prevent yet another death and long reloading cinematic sequence in the game. Now, trying to figure out the pattern and performing it quickly enough to not get killed and restart the game is utter nonsense. This is a waste of my time and not enjoyable in a game. The waste of money also bothers me. Unlike most Americans, I am a person who knows the value of money and appreciate what I have and what it takes to earn money. Wasting my entertain money on a game of this nature greatly upsets me.
Fortunately, Head First Productions is now out of business. That should be good news to any gamer, since they cannot produce any more drivel like "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" Perhaps those game developers will find their true calling as stock boys at a WalMart. They certainly should not be producing games. Another problem I had with the game is the bad coding related to screen resolution and anti aliasing. Developers always blame the hardware and drivers for problems with this nature but in reality it almost always bad code. The problem I am referring to is: I upped the screen resolution and aliasing and had problems with the keyboard (stuck key error) Which is interesting since I am playing Oblivion (and indeed all my games) with all video options set to maximum and have no problems.
The problem can, however, be resolved with turning down the resolution and turning off aliasing. To sum it up, I cannot PROPERLY give a good commet of the game with only having played it for two hours BUT giving up after only two hours should say it all:
Save your money and avoid this game.