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Eternal Darkness: Sanitys Requiem
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Thunderbolt
Brow furrowed in concentration you guide your character through the heavy wooden door and straight into a room heaving with grotesque zombies. They turn towards you as one, arms outstretched and moaning. No problem, you're armed to the teeth with various
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UnderGroundOnline
Eternal Darkness was once scheduled to be released for the N64, but Silicon Knights and Nintendo decided to scrap that idea and pour a little more time and effort in to the game. After nearly two more years of work, Eternal Darkness has finally been
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G4
We look at a game that serves up innovation by going back to the man who, in some ways, kicked off this whole horror game craze in the first place. "Eternal Darkness" has its narrative and aesthetic roots firmly planted in the works of early 20th century
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N-Europe
As long as you don’t go into this game expecting Resident Evil calibre graphics then you won’t be disappointed. The graphics are actually quite good. Some areas are quite impressive and others are just good, but wherever you are exploring you will be
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Gaming Age
Ever since Eternal Darkness was announced there was a shroud of mystery around the game. Silicon Knights had big plans for their new epic and didn’t want gamers to find out all the surprises they had in store. And believe me, there are plenty of
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GamersMark
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem had us waiting a long long time to finally hit our homes. It originally started as a Nintendo 64 game, but when N64 was already in a dead zone, Nintendo decided the game would be better if it was transferred to the
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PopCultureShock
It’s during the first cut scene as the game begins, when we meet our heroine Alexandra Roivas, that it becomes clear how much time Silicon Knights spent on Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Like Morrowind: The Elder Scrolls, and Grand Theft Auto 3
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Nintendojo
Through Eternal Darkness, Silicon Knights have come up with a genre bending psychological thriller that incorporates a magical system, tones of weapons, creative and inspired enemies and a long story line that works seamlessly throughout the game play.
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GameCube Cafe
As stated above, I will be revealing certain sanity effects and certain plot points, so, if you are one of those few who have you to play this magnificent game, shield thine eyes from this review. So, here goes: First, I was one of those lucky little
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Armchair Empire
After my first play session with Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (ED), my shirt was damp with sweat and my heart was beating a whole lot faster than it should have been. I felt like I’d been mowing the lawn in the noonday sun. However, I
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Gaming Illustrated
Some games wear their hearts outside their chests, and the heart of what makes Eternal Darkness (ED) an exceptional horror game is visible from the first screen, where a foreboding quote from Edgar Allen Poe is read in echoing splendor. Spawned from that
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Game Over Online
I don’t care what my editors say, I think this game was worth missing many deadlines over. It was worth it to experience the best videogame ever created. Ok, I might be exaggerating but I assure you, not by much. I am going to need half a minute to get
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IGN
Our full review of Silicon Knights' anticipated psychological thriller.
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Nintendo Spin
I have to admit that I was one of the few GameCube owners who wasn't hyped about Eternal Darkness. The game simply didn't interest me. I didn't care if it was "mature" or not; all I cared about was how it played and Silicon Knights really hadn't done
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Game Power AU
Nintendo, like any company in the games industry, has its share of critics. In Nintendo's case, these critics generally attack the company's games, saying they're too childish. But, it seems Nintendo and Silicon Knights are trying to break that mould
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NintendoWorldReport
published a game like Eternal Darkness, and unless the game spawns a franchise, I daresay we’ll never see another second-party title like it. It’s the first truly “mature” title from Nintendo coming by way of the Canadian developer Silicon
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Lawrence
Eternal Darkness focuses on the adventure of Alexandra Roivas as she struggles to uncover the death of her grandfather. Alexandra's investigation leads her to a secret room containing the Tome of Eternal Darkness, a book with remarkable magic power and a
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Just RPG
The game begins with the main character, Alex Roivas (a girl), waking up to a phone call. Next scene: she’s at her grandfather’s mansion where he’s been murdered, and she’s the only remaining kin. Nobody knows just how he was murdered, and the
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Game XC
All too often the word genius is thrown around in relation to the game, even though it is something less than inspired, often just an update of a previous title that only adds a few new things to the mix. Unfortunately, the games that are true genius are
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GamingTrend
Long ago I read about a game called Eternal Darkness on the Nintendo 64. The game looked nice, but really never grabbed my attention because the hype never really heated up. The idea behind the game was that it spans both time and different characters.
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GameSpot
You'll play as 12 different characters throughout the game.
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My Gamer
Eternal Darkness competes on every level a video game has, graphics are not an exception. The human models are smooth, and their movements are life-like. The monsters and creatures look and move realistically too. All the characters in the game are
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Game Revolution
While investigating the heinous murder of her grandfather, Alexandra Roivas stumbles across chapters of the dreaded Tome of Eternal Darkness. The pages tell the tales of a host of people throughout time who have found themselves charged with protecting
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Into Liquid Sky
Alex Roivas is woken from a nightmare to find out her grandfather has been brutally murdered. She travels to Rhode Island to identify the body and when the police fail to turn anything up, she begins to search through the ancient Roivas mansion on her
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HonestGamers
Nintendo seems to have gotten the ignorant reputation of being a company geared towards kids, often referred to as an overall “kiddy” company, producing software meant for, well, children. Of course, that isn’t true, but this is not an editorial...
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Game Rankings
Eternal Darkness' gameplay is a fresh take on the survival horror genre that incorporates a healthy mix of puzzle solving and action that never seems to get repetitive. As far as the plotline is concerned? Call it Heavy Metal.
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Club Skill
The survival horror genre has somewhat lacked in the past few years - there have only been two contenders which have really progressed further. Resident Evil and Silent Hill; both of which became hugely popular on Sonyís PSOne. While these two have
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Amped IGO
You start the game off as a young woman named Alexandria Roivas. The game centers around the Roivas family and the mysterious death of the grandfather. Alexandria decides that she will take it upon herself to investigate her Grandfather's manor in Rhode
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The Video Game Critic
Eternal Darkness is an innovative adventure mixing elements of Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. The game has a multitude of original features such as multiple playable characters, spell-casting, and an inventive "sanity meter" that's sure to freak you out.
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Gaming Target
Evil. It stares you in the face. It makes you squirm, wriggle away, screaming for help -- and leaves you searching for the quickest route away from your demise. You may be able to run, but evil will always follow you and bend your fears into its own
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Entertainment Depot
Eternal Darkness is played out in several different segments that are spread throughout history. From a Roman soldier to an Indiana Jones-esque explorer, vast amounts of weapons will become available, as will new spells. The game is told through one main
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Games Radar
Eternal Darkness' plot isn't ripped straight out of Lovecraft, but it might as well be. For most of the game, you play Alexandra Rovias, a young woman whose late uncle was the most recent possessor of an ancient book of unknowable cosmic horrors. As she
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Cincinnati Enquirer
The recently released "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" is such a game. It's an action/adventure hybrid with a mature story line and deep game play — and it's completely devoid of Nintendo's sugar-sweet characters such as Mario and Donkey
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GamePro
You start the game as a young woman investigating her grandfather's grisly death by unknown forces. While exploring your ancestral mansion, you discover the Tome of Eternal Darkness, an arcane book that spins the tales of a variety of characters, such as
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All RPG
I'm hoping all of you out there reading this have not read any other Eternal Darkness reviews out there, because you'll have heard a LOT of this before, although I like to think I'll bring a new perspective to it. There's just only so much one can say
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GameZone
Fear is the enemy. The more you fear the worse it all becomes.
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Cubed3
Everything was enhanced: every texture, every character, every idea and every effect and it shows. The entire game reeks of TLC. You may of thought that this was a clone of Resident Evil, but this game is almost a whole new genre. It plays with your mind
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DreamStation.cc
The Darkness comes. Part survival horror, part psychological episode, Eternal Darkness Sanity’s Requiem takes you on a journey through time as you try to prevent an evil power from being resurrected and destroying the world of humanity. Sure, while
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Electric Playground
Eternal Darkness only rarely comes and flat-out says as much, but its huge, epoch-spanning story is heavily tinged and tainted with the shadow of America's prince of literary dark fantasy, H.P. Lovecraft (www.hplovecraft.com)...and it's also got more
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NZGamer
The game begins with a pre-menu intro movie, then an actual game intro that tells some of the games story, it is told by a dead man, who in the course of the game you will control, he tells that the human race has been on the brink of destruction since
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N-Insanity
You are Alexandria Roivas in the year 2000 A.D. Notice that I gave a year and include the A.D. tag. There's a reason for this. Eternal Darkness takes place over a span of periods and ages. Alexandria is called to her Grandfather's house by the police
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GC Advanced
This horror story spans generations, so you must relive the blood-soaked history while conjuring spells, solving puzzles, and slaying supernatural beasts. Whether you're creeping around as the Roman Centurion, Cambodian villager, or any of the other
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