Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
- Peter Jacob
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- Inspector Legrasse
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- Anthony
- (voice)
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- Pious Augustus
- (voice)
- (as Richard Doyal)
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- Michael Edwards
- (voice)
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- Paul Luther
- (voice)
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- Alexandra Roivas
- (voice)
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- Roman Legionnaire 1
- (voice)
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- Dr. Maximillian Roivas
- (voice)
- (as Bill Hootkins)
- Ellia
- (voice)
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- Roberto Bianchi
- (voice)
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- Karim
- (voice)
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- Dr. Edwin Lindsey
- (voice)
- Chandra
- (voice)
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- TriviaIn Roberto's chapter, Pious says, "I am the scourge of God, appointed to chastise you, since no one knows the remedy for your iniquity except me. You are wicked, but I am more wicked than you." These words are identical to the ones spoken by the warlord Tamerlane Khan before sacking Damascus.
- GoofsWhen Karim investigates a dead soldier, he describes the corpse as lying in a 'pool of cold blood.' The corpse and the ground its laying on however are completely clean.
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[about Edward's body]
LeGrasse: I'm... I'm sorry... It's my job, lady. You're the only living relative, and no, we can't check dental records... There's no head... Ah, none of this makes sense. There's no sign of intrusion, and there was certainly a lot of force used here. I have never seen anything like this in my twenty years on the force. We have no evidence, except for the body, and what's left doesn't say much. Ahh... We don't have a single clue...
- Crazy creditsThe opening Nintendo logo is preceded by a close up of a zombie.
- Alternate versionsSome playable demos at trade shows such as the Electronics Enterainment Expo (E3) contained a playable character named Joseph de Molay, a Gifted Knight-Templar. He does however make a cameo appearance as the man who can see Pious in his true form by the Tamerlane in a cutscene shortly after Alexandra Roivas found the Eternal Darkness page for Chapter 8: The Forbidden City which is Roberto's chapter.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Icons: Scary Games (2002)
The story has a young lady named Alex going to the home of her grandfather. He has been killed in gruesome fashion and the police have no leads or clues as to what happened to him. She decides to explore the house and see if she can perhaps turn up something. She ends up finding a book called the Tome of Eternal Darkness and within it she will live out various other peoples' meetings with the Darkness that is going to try cover the world in Eternal Darkness. Can the various people who encounter the tome hold back the darkness, or are we destined to lose the light?
The game play is about the most problematic part of the game. I love that you get to control such a wide variety of characters and use so many interesting weapons. I also think the whole insanity effect was cool, just wish I could explore more while insane, but they make it so if you run out you lose health, which kind of sucks as the more entertaining thing in the game is trying to figure out if you just got your head knocked off for real or if it was just the character going momentarily crazy. The levels do have a bit of sameness to them, but at the same time you revisit stages during different time periods so you can see what age has done to the places. The fighting, now that is kind of a pain. I understand they were going for making you tense as you try to reload a gun and it takes a moment; however, at times it is also very difficult targeting the enemy too. You also get killed by camera angles and such as well. The magic casting also took forever, which for the most part was not too big a deal, that is until you had to face this huge creature during the war and time your magic attacks. Overall, not too bad as it was an earlier game so one can expect the controls to be a bit more difficult as making games like this were still not quite the norm.
So overall, a good horror survival game which obviously used a whole heck of a lot of H.P Lovecraft stories and influence. I think the story got a bit weaker as it progressed, but not a lot. It would have been interesting to see if they could have done a sequel, but the only way I could see them doing it, is if they made a completely unrelated story, but then you run into the problem of making the same game with only different locales and characters. They would have also had trouble trying to come up with different insanity effects too, so I can see why they did not immediately make a sequel. I think they could do one now though as it has been a long time since this game came out.
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