Eternal Darkness is a excellently excituted Horror Adventure game thats like no other. The game starts with the main protagonist Alex Rovias, a young women who's ageing grandfather is horribly murdered by an unknown killer. She is called in the middle of the night by the police to her grandfathers mansion to identify the (headless) body. After the police has left she takes a look around mansion to uncover any clues of why her grandfather would be killed. She ends up uncovering the whole of her grandfathers work and it turns out she is the only key to saving the human kind from the Matarok and a roman turned 'evil god' Pious Augustous' The game has 12 playable characters all spanning over different time periods who all are all connected to the main storyline or Alex rovias in one way or the other. in between each chapter which starts with Alex finding a artifact or script which can be used to activate there story written down in Her grandfathers book (it has a significant name which sadly i do not remember). The Controls are well set out and moving the character isn't too much bother as the camera is pretty good overall, it can be a little niggly in battles but nothing that marks the game down. Each character will have a different weapon, Alex uses a shotgun when she does encounter a battle, and the various other characters have knifes, torches, darts, pistols and rifles to name a few, but what really makes some battles great is the magic you can use. Press a direction on the Gamecubes d pad and a magic spell which are learned throughout will be activated, the magic can be used for various things, in battle and out. such as freezing monsters, unlocking doors, uncovering secret passages or killing certain creatures. It adds well to the variety. The most unique thing about this game apart from its excellently executed story line are the 'sanity effects', this is wear it gets its 'horror' title, be warned this game will trick you more than once, i remembered leaping out of my chair when it suddenly said "deleting file", then to my relief it was just another sanity effect. Once i went into a room and all my characters limbs fell off, then all of a sudden the screen flashed and spiders were crawling over the screen and.... you are dead. Boom back to normal, its pretty weird stuff. But adds to to the fun. The graphics to be fair are good, not excellent but good. They arnt the best you will see on the game-cube as it was origanally slated for a N64 release, but character models and environments are pretty nice to look at, but that saying it is around 4 years old now. Overall i say if you have a game-cube get this game, its fun, spooky and at times unsettling but really has some great atmosphere. You can pick it up for around 8 pounds these days so what are you waiting for!
Graphics - 7/10 Gameplay - 9/10 Sound - 10/10 (god damn those door scratching effect) Longevity - 8/10 Overall - 9/10
Graphics - 7/10 Gameplay - 9/10 Sound - 10/10 (god damn those door scratching effect) Longevity - 8/10 Overall - 9/10