A fun little survival horror game based around a cursed statue that radiates an aura bringing the dead back to life and possessing innocent people for the dark deeds of...Seth? Set? Not certain tbh...
The game is set in 1890's England, back when Egypt was THE topic everyone was obsessed with and after a thief's failed attempt to steal an artefact known as "The Eye of Isis" (despite it looking like Bast, which'd make more sense) ends off setting off a curse that floods the museum killing, possessing and reanimating the dead everywhere it goes.
Meanwhile our hero is stopped by the police who say the museum is closed and the staff will be helping with their enquiries, however, after they disappear, our hero just opens the door with no issue and gets inside. Afterwards, he ends up on a journey and getting haunted by this curse as he attempts to return the statue to it's rightful place back in Egypt. Now if curses were real, I'm sure many items in the Natural History Museum would be sent back as it's not worth having visitors getting poisoned, possessed or mutated just to keep a valuable artefact on display.
The gameplay is your typical 3rd person survival game, borrowing elements from games like Resident Evil 4 and others, only the inventory is nowhere near as limited as the RE games and closer to that of Dino Crisis, but ammo and healing items are limited to make sure to take precaution in when you wish to heal up and when not to. Some of the monster designs are very good and it's a shame I hadn't played this game before, because it really was a lot of fun and certainly a nice little distraction if you want to play another PS2 generation survival game without replaying Resident Evil 4, Code Veronica or event Cold Fear for the fifth time!
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The game is set in 1890's England, back when Egypt was THE topic everyone was obsessed with and after a thief's failed attempt to steal an artefact known as "The Eye of Isis" (despite it looking like Bast, which'd make more sense) ends off setting off a curse that floods the museum killing, possessing and reanimating the dead everywhere it goes.
Meanwhile our hero is stopped by the police who say the museum is closed and the staff will be helping with their enquiries, however, after they disappear, our hero just opens the door with no issue and gets inside. Afterwards, he ends up on a journey and getting haunted by this curse as he attempts to return the statue to it's rightful place back in Egypt. Now if curses were real, I'm sure many items in the Natural History Museum would be sent back as it's not worth having visitors getting poisoned, possessed or mutated just to keep a valuable artefact on display.
The gameplay is your typical 3rd person survival game, borrowing elements from games like Resident Evil 4 and others, only the inventory is nowhere near as limited as the RE games and closer to that of Dino Crisis, but ammo and healing items are limited to make sure to take precaution in when you wish to heal up and when not to. Some of the monster designs are very good and it's a shame I hadn't played this game before, because it really was a lot of fun and certainly a nice little distraction if you want to play another PS2 generation survival game without replaying Resident Evil 4, Code Veronica or event Cold Fear for the fifth time!
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