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Summary: OH WOW!
Review: Great game. I'm a fan of the movie and of Nocturne, and this game delivers. The controls were much improved from Nocturne which made it easier to become immersed in the game and follow the top notch storyline. Highly recommened if you are a horror buff as well.
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Summary: Can you say "Nocturne MOD"?
Review: I am a huge fan of Blair Witch and I can't believe soo many people still put down that movie to this day. Blair Witch is a excellent Survival Horror on the big screen. The entire essense of Blair Witch is spooky and draws you in like a moth to a flame. Until now... From the creators who gave you the "Coaster of the year" comes another ridiculous game based on the series. Why they would even pervert the Blair Witch with the Nocturne Engine is beyond me. I have to admit the demo was very spooky walking around in the house, but the min I had to battle near-invisible demons, I was completely turned off by the game. If anyone remembers Nocturne, the game flopped tremedously despite all the hype the produced before the release. Now don't get me wrong, Nocturne has a very interesting storyline, but the gameplay is HORRIBLE! Highly Excessive PC requirements limit the number of gamers who can play it, or much less want to play it! The Quake III engine far surpasses the Nocturne engine. And now they are trying once again to sell you Nocturne disquised under a Blair Witch title. This is completely obsurd. The game they should have made was a survival horror game without weapons or they Spook House characters. A game where you have to solve puzzles to gain information all the while running from wierd noises and unseen monsters. That is the game I wanted to play, kinda of like Silent Hill with no guns, because in most parts of Silent Hill you did not have to kill the monsters. Now with this game coming out, you will have to deal with Extreme PC Requirements, watch a rerun of Home Improvement load times and basically a Nocturne game Mod under a different title. GOD - Gathering of Developers, please take note and leave all aspects of Nocturne out of the next Blair Witch games. It will be bad enough to see this game for sale on Ebay a couple of days after it comes out.
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Summary: Please be warned
Review: I bet everyone reading this already knows the whole point of the game. The makers of the game Nocturne are using the same engine and character (a mysterious man named Stranger who's a detective that fights monsters) to explore the legends of the Blair Witch. They're releasing three games that are of three different parts of the legend. But be warned. I am a blair witch fanatic and bought Nocturne to see what the game may look like. But to play it, it takes up 1 megabyte of space! You also need over a 100 megs of RAM. I have a really bad computer and if you do to, look before buying Nocturne products. Other than the space and speed it takes up, the game should be as awesome as Myst!
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: I bought this game hoping that it would be everything I had read in the reviews. It isn't. It is EXTREMELY hard to control and the easiest tasks become frustrating. - I can now use it as a not-so-expensive drink coaster. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: SCARY AND CREEPY
Review: I have played many horror games and definately feel that "blairwitch 1" scores heavy over other horror games.the game is set on the 1941 legend of rustin parr who had murdered 7 children and claimed he had done it for a ghostwoman.the excellent atmosphere and graphics make this game realy spooky.though it doesnt have the best controls,it is a must buy for horror and blairwitch fans like me.i would rate it much higher than the other two blairwitch games.so if u want to visit burkitsville woods,this is definatelty the east way...
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Summary: Fun.....to a point
Review: I purchased the first two volumes of the Blair Witch game series and while I am impressed with the graphics and gameplay, the programs themselves leave alot to be desired. Both games were playable to a certain point and then a bug would come into play. The game would crash, and I am left frustrated. Going on the developers website revealed no patches, but reading the past chat forums told me I am not the only one with the crashing problem and there are other gamers who are equally frustrated. I seldom buy PC games but since I am a fan of the "survival-horror" genre I gave them a try. However, with the problems I have experienced with these two I understand now why the typical gaming platforms i.e Playstation, Nintendo, etc, are far more popular then the PC. Which is a shame because the power a PC has to offer is much more substantial. But since I have never been playing a Playstation game and had it shut down on me in the middle of play, I think that is what I'll stick to.....
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Summary: PC Gaming doesn't get better than this
Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, finally I have been impressed, I mean truly impressed by a PC game. This game has it all, graphics to knock the socks off (flowing trenchcoats, moving facials features, camera angles that create a horror movie-like feel, real-time BEAUTIFUL lighting effects), an intriguing storyline that follows, but is not hindered by, the movies. Great voice acting (wow, that's a first), interesting NPC characters and sound effects that rival anything I've heard make this game not just worth buying, but worth playing over and over. I am not ashamed to say that sitting home alone playing this game, I jumped at points and was really scared. Never has a game reached quite this level, Nocturne on speed folks, that's what this game is....kudos Gathering of Developers.
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Summary: Clever, Hip, and Scary
Review: My first impressions of this game were NOT good. The training thing [is] real bad, but its worth it in the end!! This is a very scary game! I thought Resident Evil 2 was good, and it is... but, this is the iceing on the cake. I think that this did very well in tying in the blair witch theory's. There were not made up stories... everything is fact from the books and the movie. I reccomend this not only to lovers of the film, But horror film lovers and game lovers also. Once again... your first impression may not be good but it won't last long! I took a star off for the basic reasons that it takes quite awhile to master the movements and is a little too hard a little too soon. Other than that, BUY IT!
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Summary: This is not the kind of 3rd person game you're thinking of.
Review: Not so much a horror game as a horrible idea - and I never played the original Nocturne upon which this game's engine is derived. BACKGROUND: you are the lovely and mysterious Doc Halliday, an investigator for a secret agency (with conspicuous military backing) devoted to paranormal investigations. In 1941, she turns her attentions to the hideous crimes of Rustin Parr, a Burkittsville-area hermit who kidnapped a number children and brutally murdered all but one of them. (Parr's fictitious crimes were "created" in "Blair Witch Project", but their place in that legend is rather tenuous - most murders or disappearances were directly attributed to the witch rather than intermediaries, and Parr's claims that he was guided by an old woman seem no different than the ravings of any homicidal psychotic. On the other hand, the mysterious house appearing at the end of BWP appears to be the one in which Parr committed mass murder. Parr's crimes are discovered when, after completing them, he walks into town telling everybody "I'm finally finished."). Halliday investigates the crime, but occasionally battles supernatural monsters - requiring her (you) to be as adroit at solving puzzles as you are wielding a Luger and a stake (your melee weapon). GAMEPLAY: This is a bad place to start getting it wrong, and "Parr" goes bad in a big way here. The gameplay is supposedly 3rd person, which I'm no fan of. In reality, there's no material difference between first person and the third person POV of games like "Tomb Raider" and "Max Payne" - even though you're looking down at yourself, you still control where you (and the game) looks because perspective is fixed to where your character is looking. (That is, you're in control, even if that gives you the power to get yourself totally creamed by an army of zombies you blundered upon.) The game engine in "Parr" is different - the perspective is fixed to the settings in which your character walks or investigates, regardless of whether that makes it harder to observe the complex world that frames the mysteries of the game. In "Parr", you walk into a room, and everything about it remains as visible regardless of where Halliday is pointed. While this allows the programmers to make the settings prettier (because they don't have to be re-rendered constantly to compensate for the character's movement) it also means you get less out of them (since much of the setting is simply out of the picture). There is an exception - you can switch to night-vision goggles (a generous anachronism since TV was still pretty new) in which you see from a first person perspective, but the picture is lousy. That could work since the world looks simply nightmarish when you turn them on. However, since you'll flick them on when you need to, you'll probably remember them for their uselessness (small objetcs like door switches, or larger objects that don't clash with their surroundings like closed doors are practically invisible to them). Since you can't see things from Halliday's POV, there's little connecting her to the player and to the rest of the game, and the fear factor is therefore pretty low. Highlighting the weaknesses of that type of engine is that there aren't any smooth transitions from one area to the next - it's like a movie, with cuts from one scene to the next. Throw into the mix capricious controllability making use/pick-up functions a chore. A game's challenge shouldn't start with such mundane tasks as picking up wooden stakes, throwing switches or opening doors. I've never played "Nocturne" but it's incredible to think that, if "Parr" is indication, somebody thought that that brand of gameplay was superlative enough to merit any kind of mod. ...
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Summary: A great game, even if your not a fan of Blair Witch
Review: Now before you past judgement on this game because of the title, just listen to what is said and give it a try. The story fits beautifully in 1930's, the game play is resident evilish with different camera angles to give it that feeling that something is around the corner........ because it probably is. The game play is excellent as long as you learn the controls. But every game is like that. All I can say is if you loved or liked The blair witch (1,2) then this game is a given, if you didn't but still like games of horror then you will still enjoy this game. Trust me. The children of Burkitsville trusted Rustin Barr.
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