Black Plague is an immersive and often puzzling game. A little short but definately worth playing!

User Rating: 8.5 | Penumbra: Black Plague PC
By Paladin_basic | Review Date:
Black Plague continues from where we left off, and does feel and play a little differently from the last game. There is in general a lot more to the puzzle element this time around, and the combat has been removed, which I approve of. Having to run from monsters is a lot more scary than knowing you can whack them

The physics are one of the main selling points of the game, and are indeed very good. More is put into it this time round, where as in the first game it was almost restricted to moving boards around to walk on etc, where as now items are used in more interesting ways, which is great to see

Graphically, the game is very nice to look at. Some may say it's not the best but they're being picky, super realistic graphics don't count for that much, and it limits the PC systems that can run the game. The game looks great even on my system, a P4 3400 single core, 2GB of old DDR RAM and a 7800 GS 512MB graphics card (AGP at that!)

Both the sound effects and the musical scores are great and help put you right in there as the character

Difficulty is just about right... I only got really stuck once, but a few times I had to fit down with pen and paper... nothing hard, just challenging

I completed the game in about 6 hours 30 minutes, which admittedly is a little short, but the gameplay, atmosphere and enjoyment was worth it, and I do heartily recommend the game

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