Penumbra

Posted by Albert Lai Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:15:00 GMT

Penumbra is a dark adventure horror game about a intrepid son who heads to Norway to investigate a place that his estranged father alluded to in notes about a book written in a strange language that was in safety deposit box to which the hero recieved the key following his mother’s death. Or something like that. All of these horror/adventure games tend to blend together after a while. If it’s not a badly lit office it’s a spooky town with a secret to hide.

Sporting 3D graphics, Penumbra sports a physics engine that is used in certain mini-puzzles (Physics! Cool!). Action sequences cause the character (who isn’t armed with weapons in the conventional sense) to slow into bullet time while you try to figure out how the hell you kill monsters without any type of bat/shotgun/ninja saber. In-game clues allow the player to figure out where to go next with the minimum of becoming hopelessly stuck.

But wait! There is no such thing as a game without flaws. For one, the system requirements for Penumbra are a bit intensive, and, more importantly (since I doubt that many of you readers won’t be able to support Penumbra), constant loading screens detract from the experience. If you’re willing to put these problems aside, though, Penumbra is sure to be a good game to immerse yourself in.

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  1. Likwit_Snake said about 17 hours later:

    too bad for me… after the beginning story, loading. The game goes back to my desktop… :(

  2. null said 6 days later:

    qdsqwd

  3. pocaitu daniel said 13 days later:

    quote ” too bad for me… after the beginning story, loading. The game goes back to my desktop… :( ”

    Same here.

  4. Likwit_Snake said 13 days later:

    I played it on a computer at my school, and it looks really cool. I haven’t got the time to realy play the game (reading everything etc.), but the graphics are very cool for a free game :) Too bad the game doesn’t support a lot of video cards

  5. pocaitu daniel said 13 days later:

    i heard nothing but good things about this game, too bad it hates my video card. i wanted so much to play it, from the screenshots it looks fantastic

  6. Likwit_Snake said 14 days later:

    yeah indeed… I hope they will make the game compatible for more video cards in the future…

  7. oi said 16 days later:

    new patch with wider support for video cards

    http://frictionalgames.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=172

  8. Likwit_Snake said 17 days later:

    tnx oi, maybe i can play it now :D

  9. null said about 1 month later:

    Try downloading this game from downloads.com? works fine on my HP

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