Why I buy this one ?
- Battle or interact with people trhoughout the game -- try to figure out which are friends and which are enemies in disguise
- Combat enemies using the environment, powerful and evil artifacts, Alien technology, or more Earthly weapons
- Travel through the strange, Gothic New England of Lovecraft -- realistic, 3D levels like Innsmouth Town and Deep One City
- Keep your Sanity intact -- as you face unspeakable monsters and unknown terrors, you'll also have to hold back hallucinations, panic attacks, vertigo and paranoia

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"great survival game", For the price it is a great survival and adventure game.Plays well on xbox 360 too.

"All that's going for this game is its Lovecraft roots.", I saw an ad for this game in an old issue of Game Informer. They advertised First Person action, insanity meter, and of course Cthulhu. I was thinking Doom when I read First Person, Eternal Darkness when I read insanity meter, and "Thank the gods, they finally made a H.P. Lovecraft game!" when I saw the title. All right, turns out to be 2 strikes and one ball. The first person action, well there really isn't any. You spend most of your time running away from creepy villagers, and not in the fun way like in RE4. The insanity meter is pretty bad, no mind-blowing hallucinations like in Eternal Darkness, just a bunch of pounding and blurred vision. Their concept of going insane is my idea of a DWI stop. You really can't screw up the story of Cthulhu, so that bit was all right but done very sloppy. It was as if they had to change the storyline to make the game play better, but really they ruined up the only thing they had going from the start. The details are great and I have spoken with others who absolutely adore the game. A warning to those who aren't into H.P. Lovecraft, you will most likely hate this title. Imagine playing through Silent Hill without getting your first weapon until you're in the hospital. Sounds hard right, yeah well this game is ridiculous when it comes to survival.

"oh my gosh", phenominal game. like the other guy, i am about 21 percent through the game but i found the chase exhilerating, like no other in any game. the blurryness is from your panic and if you do well, you won't be very blurry but if you keep looking at the guys breaking down doors that you lock behind you, or get shot a couple times, it goes downhill fast, but that is what makes it so intense. i wish they made more games like this where you actually do things and flesh out the story before going in guns blazing (like half life 1). overall one of a kind game and actually pretty scary and intene. I don't even find games like resident evil or silent hill 2 to be scary or intense like this. hell of a game with great graphics on my 360 and great surround sound with an enthralling storyline and detailed world. very good for a mature gamer who has other games like devil may cry and halo to satisfy my bloodlust.

"Probably the most Lovecraftian game ever to be made", I waited years and years for this game to come out, checking in on the forum belonging to the now vanished company again and again for news about this game based on the literary works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the well-known author of horror and weird tales in the early 1900's. To make a long story short, through the work of a single individual with helpers, the game finally came out AFTER the company was gone, and that is the reason for the few bugs remaining in the game (there might be an update available by now, I don't know). There is though help available for how to avoid the bugs, and thereby enable you to enjoy this magnificent game. The story is mostly based on "The Shadow of Innsmouth", a classic tale of degeneration and despair, and one of my 3 personal favourites in the HPL canon.

The pc-game really is an electronic version of the classic pen & paper RPG "The Call of Cthulhu", and I enjoyed every second of it to the fullest. You will crawl and run and sneak around investigating why someone is trying to kill you in Innsmouth, what happened to a missing grocery clerk and basically what is really going on in and around town, with all kinds of scary incidents occurring. Basically, if you've read the tale, you'll now play it. The game is excellently made, and if they had only made more games so true to HPL's fantastic tales, I would be a much happier man.

The few bugs in the game are easy to crack, and once you've done this, you'll have on your hands a game that is almost right-along up there with "Planescape : Torment" in depth and story.

(I played the PC version)

"You have got to be kidding me!", All these people rating this game so low! Are you serious? This is the greatest horror game I have ever played. The atmosphere is amazing and it has so many intense moments. Everyone is complaining about how "difficult" and "unfair" it is. I completed the "Attack of the Fishmen" part (the one everyone seems to complain about) after three tries! Just be patient when playing this game. Some people are just too used to other types of games. That's one of the reasons why I love this game, you can't just rush through a level or mission, you need to take your time and study the environment. Everyone is going to disagree with me, but this game, in my opinion, is much better than any "Resident Evil" game or anything else. Also, I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, and it helps to be a little familiar with some of the things in the game (mainly "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and some of "The Call of Cthulhu" are partly what this game is based on). The length is great, and it is cool how you have no weapons until almost the middle of the storyline. I agree, it is a fairly difficult game, but you won't have too many problems if you just take your time and also look for help online (I needed walkthrough help a few times).

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"Wasted Opportunity", Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth started out as being one of the best representations of the H.P. Lovecraft world that I have ever seen in a computer game. The game started out great, being totally immersive with a great story line. But the game ultimately failed due to a sanity system that makes the world go blurry, controls not work, and the character move slowly. As the world goes uncontrollably blurry, you are expected to run, shut and lock doors, climb ladders, jump balconies all while baddies easily hack away at you.This game should come with a motion sickness warning. I can not believe that this game was actually play tested. If you must have this game, rent it.

"MASSIVE SANITY HIT!", Based on author H.P. Lovecrafts many works involving the town of Innsmouth and the sea god Dagon, Bethesda struck right on target with Dark Corners of the Earth.
The game contains many different gameplay elements, manifest through different parts of the game. from stealth to investigation to shooter to an indescribable scramble for safety, this game delivers fright and fun.
My favourite aspect of the game was its "extreme first person" in other words, you NEVER leave the first person perspective, there are NO indicators or even a heads up display (no aiming reticle, health bar, sanity metre, ammo indicator, etc.) this viewpoint offers an initial challenge when it comes to aiming, but with practice it is easy to overcome.
The game is highlighted with mind-wracking puzzles, intense action sequences, a wonderful storyline, and (of course) plenty of horrifying themes and imagery. Outrunning the innsmouth townfolk was one of my favourite gaming moments.
This game also uses a feature Eternal Darkness fanss will be familiar with- dynamic sanity affects. As you progress, you're player will be exposed to horrible images and situations that will test his (and your) sanity. As you lose sanity your vision will blur, weapons will misfire, you'll hear voices, etc. Eventually you will commit suicide. (that scared the hell out of me the first time it happened!)
The health system is hard to master, but you'll get the hang of it eventually. you're player is displayed with any injuries h has sustained, and you much choose which to heal, and which to leave open. different types of damage make this fairly strategic. minor bleeding will slow you down, enough major bleeding will kill you, broken bones create bad mobility, etc.
The games plot is extremely good, and the cinematics are executed very well, again never leaving first person
IMPORTANT: another review claims that you cannot skip cinematics, apparently this person hit every button exept BACK, it will skip cinimatics.
The shooter element isn't very dominant (i was at 43% completion before i even obtained a gun) but that helps add to the horror element, and should not be viewed as a fault. the only fault i can think of is difficulty. every situation has a very logical method to complete the task (except for the final battle) but sometimes the method is a little hard to notice, or easy to overlook. just keep looking, youll figure it out eventually.
The game is well detailed and well designed and remember***
PAY ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING even trivial dialogue can serve a purpose! the game DOES NOT carry you through the puzzles, just keep your eyes and ears open and you should be ok (and the loading screen hints are VERY useful)
Overall this game is VERY good. and is a must have for any horror or cthulhu fan. i hope you find this useful

"Great concept, sloppy execution", First of all, I really wanted to like this game. Any game based on an H.P. Lovecraft tale must be spooky, creative and tons of fun, right? I think any educated gamer with a respectable sense of survival horror would have to ultimately say "no" after playing Call Of Cthulhu. It pains me to speak ill of this game as you can tell the developers tried their utmost to give CoC an eerie atmosphere, tense moments, challenging puzzles and fierce enemies. The only one of these aspects they succeeded on is the puzzle part as you will find it an extreme challenge to not throw your controller through the TV screen. It's not even because the puzzles are so hard, it's more to do with the fact that the puzzles are boring and after trying the same tired old "jump the chasm, pull the lever, beat the timer" nonsense, you find yourself losing interest very quickly. Which leads me to the next major annoyance. When you die, and you WILL die, the deaths tend to happen (obviously) at a time where monsters are lurking, guns are blazing and puzzles are stumping and coincidentally, most of these moments in the game come right after a cut scene. Why does this make a difference, you ask? Because you can't push a button to skip the cut scenes! There were at least five instances where I died multiple times right after a cut scene and had to sit through these four or five minute interludes EVERY SINGLE TIME. That's just sloppy development in my book and it seriously hinders the gameplay experience. My other major gripe is the "insanity" of the character (a blatant rip-off of Eternal Darkness, a game which pulled this off FAR more effectively). In Eternal Darkness, your insanity would manifest itself with lucid and horrific hallucinations and you truly didn't know what was happening. It was freaky and a rare new experience. In CoC, your "insanity" makes itself evident with the screen getting blurry and your character moving as slow as molasses. It gets so blurry at times that you literally can't see a single thing. How is this fun? Keep in mind, while you're blurry-eyed and vulnerable, this doesn't stop the enemy from attacking you so it ends up being a prolonged death where you just sit and stare at a blurry screen, not knowing what the hell is going on. Lame!
And what's with the fishmen? Were they pulled right out of Resident Evil or what? Those of you familiar with the "creatures" from R.E. will scoff at these human frogmen jumping at you and easily being mowed down with a well-aimed shotgun.
The main problem I have with CoC is that it can't decide what it wants to be. I loved the first part of the game where your survival depends on stealth and cunning, not bullets and jumping (I'm a big fan of Thief so I guess that might tell you something). When the game opens, it sets a great mood and tone that ends up dwindling into a Tomb Raider type shoot, jump and lever-pull festival that eventually turns into a jaw-breaking yawn. It really has no new concepts whatsoever. It pulls ideas directly from Thief, Resident Evil and Eternal Darkness but really bringing nothing of its own to the table. More importantly, this game really doesn't create a forboding atmosphere and couldn't be less scary by the time you get to the middle of the game. That's where its creativity should be abounding, not sagging.
Go rent Eternal Darkness and Thief instead. They're both far superior and honestly, Call Of Cthulhu (the game, not the story) wouldn't exist without them.

"Slow, Steady Spiral into Insanity", If you're a fan of horror stories, then you know that one of the founders of this genre was HP Lovecraft and his Cthulhu stories. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Rhode Island, and his Cthulhu storyline was based in a seacoast town of Massachusetts of the 1920s. Lovecraft's own father went insane when Lovecraft was 3, and Lovecraft himself had a nervous breakdown in high school. His stories were developed from his own severe nightmares.

This game title has been in development for many years, so the graphics in the end product aren't necessarily cutting edge, especially for the XBox platform. It's important to just accept this up front. The load times are also exceedingly long. Strangely, when we played this on our XBox 360 (in backwards compatability mode of course) the loading screens were super long - but the individual messages that would cycle through would not stay on the screen long enough to read. It was an odd combination.

I found it best not to think of Call of Cthulhu as a traditional horror game like Doom or Half-Life. This game isn't about constant action and harassment. It is much more like a steady epic that unfolds over time. It's not about in-your-face blood and guts, although there is plenty of both. It is more of a psychological gnawing away at you. It's a game that you need to set aside a long weekend, a bottle of wine and turn on the answering machine for. It's immersive.

So how does it play out. You are Jack Walters, a detective called in to help with a cult that has holed up in a gothic house in Massachusetts. Strangely, you have no gun. You and a few cops approach the house, and the cultists shoot your cop pals down. You try to pick up one of the downed cop's guns and the system says "Ewwww a dead body". Hmmmm. You go in and find that the cult is obsessed with you for some reason, and find a few dead cultists. You spot a trap door in one room - and when you open the trap door, you mysteriously can't walk around the room any more - your feet are now unable to step over the tiny ledge that lines the hallway. You go down, and see .... things go dark.

Fast forward to six years later. Now you're a PI, suffering from amnesia from that horrific event. You are sent into a small town to track down a missing "lad". The town is typical New England - dark, dreary, grey, with people who speak in monosyllables. I live here, I know this type of town ;) You're now ferrying items to get clues, doing sneak-avoidance to get into areas, and solving puzzles. You don't even get a weapon for about the first third of the game.

There are interesting twists because of the "going insane" aspect of this story. If you spend too much time in a scary area, your vision goes blurry and you have other issues. You can't always trust what you see. You have to plow through trying to do the best you can, as quickly as you can.

There is a group of horror players who will probably find this game "too slow". Players who are hooked on the constant action of Halo etc. probably won't do well with the long loads and exploring sequences. On the other hand, I really recommend that they stick with this. Fast adrenaline can be a shallow thrill. A slow-building insanity can really get to you.

If I have complaints about the game, it stems from some of my commentary earlier. The game elicits laughter when obviously it wasn't meant to. It seems that 99% of the doors you encounter are mysteriously glued shut. The dialogue is repetitive and sometimes inane. You're being shot at but can't pick up a gun?

That being said, every game has its dumb idiosyncracies. The guy in Grand Theft Auto could take down hordes of drug dealers but would drown in 1" of water. You just have to accept these things as part of the game environment.

I definitely recommend this game for adventure gamers who can handle the mature rating. If you're more of a shoot-em-up, at least rent the game to see if you can get into the flow of things. You might find that you really can enjoy something that has a slower pace.



"Mildly amusing. Highly annoying", While this game certainly passes the time, I for one found it to be more annoying that anything else. Puzzles are great. I like puzzles, but in MODERATION! For crying out loud, once one puzzle is finished in this game, another one starts. There are occasional gun fights and chases with the bad guys, but overall this is a puzzle game. Games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill have richly layered stories and a wide variation in the actions required by the player. This game, however, is closer to Tetris in that it focuses so much on the puzzles. All of this pales in comparison to the one feature that really makes this a C- / D+ level game. Folks, I am talking about one of the most annoying features ever in a video game: the blurry screen. Whenever your character takes damage, starts to lose him mind, or encounters a ledge (he's afraid of heights, see), the screen becomes blurry to reflect his conditions, and you will barely be able to see what's going on. The result is that you will basically be unable to control your character until the blurriness passes, which can take 10-20 seconds. In the meantime, you will flee into enemies or towards a drop-off. This frequently happens at inopportune times and will result in your death. It's so annoying that I cannot believe this feature made it out of the test phase.

In my opinion, Resident Evil and Silent Hill are far superior to this. Fortunately for me, this game was a gift, and I am selling it back as soon as possible.