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    John Parker, a British photographer, visits the isolated town of Illsmouth in 1910 to photograph Halley's Comet. In 1834, another visitor, Lord Boleskine, went insane after observing the comet from the town. When Parker arrives, he discovers a sinister conspiracy and must survive three days to see the comet while solving what happened in 1834. The game is a third-person graphic adventure based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos where the player controls Parker to interact with items and the environment to progress the story.

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    John Parker, a British photographer, visits the isolated town of Illsmouth in 1910 to photograph Halley's Comet. In 1834, another visitor, Lord Boleskine, went insane after observing the comet from the town. When Parker arrives, he discovers a sinister conspiracy and must survive three days to see the comet while solving what happened in 1834. The game is a third-person graphic adventure based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos where the player controls Parker to interact with items and the environment to progress the story.

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    John Parker, a British photographer, visits the isolated town of Illsmouth in 1910 to photograph Halley's Comet. In 1834, another visitor, Lord Boleskine, went insane after observing the comet from the town. When Parker arrives, he discovers a sinister conspiracy and must survive three days to see the comet while solving what happened in 1834. The game is a third-person graphic adventure based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos where the player controls Parker to interact with items and the environment to progress the story.

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    John Parker, a British photographer, visits the isolated town of Illsmouth in 1910 to photograph Halley's Comet. In 1834, another visitor, Lord Boleskine, went insane after observing the comet from the town. When Parker arrives, he discovers a sinister conspiracy and must survive three days to see the comet while solving what happened in 1834. The game is a third-person graphic adventure based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos where the player controls Parker to interact with items and the environment to progress the story.

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    Shadow of the Comet

    Shadow of the Comet (later repackaged as Call of 3 Reception


    Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet) is an adventure game
    developed and released by Infogrames in 1993. The game Computer Gaming World praised Shadow of the Comet
    is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. A follow- 's plot, puzzles, writing, and rather naughty, dark Gallic
    up game, Prisoner of Ice, is not a direct sequel.
    sense of humor but criticized the lack of mouse support,
    The game uses many elements from Lovecrafts The Dun- calling object manipulation and puzzle solving without
    one painful. The magazine concluded that the game is
    wich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
    a high quality graphic adventure that oers nothing particularly new as far as technological advances and is, in
    some ways, a touch old-fashioned. This may, however,
    not be a bad thing given the plots quality.[1]

    Plot
    4 Release

    The game takes place in 1910, and concerns the visit of a


    young British photographer, John Parker, to the isolated On July 22nd, 2015, Shadow of The Comet and Prisoner
    New England town of Illsmouth (an alteration on Love- of Ice were re-released as DRM-free on GOG.com for
    [2]
    crafts Innsmouth) to witness and photograph the passage modern computers.
    of Halleys Comet.
    In 1834, on the last passing, Lord Boleskine visited the
    town after learning that certain conditions near the town
    would allow astronomical objects to be seen clearer and
    closer than on any other spot on earth. He decides to
    test this theory by observing the comet from Illsmouth,
    but something unexpected happens and he goes insane,
    spending the rest of his life in a London lunatic asylum.
    John Parker, learning of the 1834 incident and reading
    over Boleskines papers, wishes to succeed where his predecessor failed.

    5 References
    [1] Matthews, Robin (August 1993). Robin Matthews
    Launches a Detailed Investigation of Frances Latest Export. Computer Gaming World. p. 82. Retrieved 12 July
    2014.
    [2] GOG.com.
    RELEASE: CALL OF CTHULHU:
    SHADOW OF THE COMET + PRISONER OF ICE.
    GOG.com. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

    When he arrives, Parker stumbles upon a sinister conspiracy and must survive the three days between his arrival
    and the comets passage while nding out what happened
    in 1834.

    6 External links
    Shadow of the Comet at MobyGames
    Shadow of The Comet at GOG.com

    Gameplay

    The player can control Parker via the arrow keys. When
    Parker comes across something he can interact with, a
    button press will allow the player to do so. Items that
    Parker can take will project a white line from Parkers eye
    to the item, indicating that when the player interacts with
    the item, it will be added to Parkers inventory. Apart
    from this the game plays like a standard third-person adventure game.
    1

    7 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

    Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

    7.1

    Text

    Shadow of the Comet Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Comet?oldid=672541941 Contributors: SD6-Agent, Gtrmp,


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    Flax5, The1337gamer, Laodah, SNAAAAKE!!, CaptainCital, Chrisgerbo, Krisfrosz133, SonOfPlisskin and Anonymous: 20

    7.2

    Images

    File:Gamepad.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Gamepad.svg License: ? Contributors: ? Original artist: ?


    File:Shadow_of_the_Comet_cover.jpg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Shadow_of_the_Comet_cover.jpg License: Fair use Contributors:
    May be found at the following website: GameSpot Original artist: ?

    7.3

    Content license

    Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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