Cthulhu Lurks In Dark Gaming Corners, Heeds Call

Thanks to C+VG for its interview with Chris Gray of Headfirst Productions regarding PC/Xbox first-person action title Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, as "based on the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG and works of author H.P Lovecraft." Gray notes of the long-in-development title: "we've got a completely new engine... [featuring] vertex and pixel shaders", and elaborates: "It wouldn't be a Lovecraft game without some big monsters; these include a Shoggoth, Father Dagon, Mother Hydra, Flying Polyps and a few other surprises." Elsewhere, Yog-Sothoth points out the new publishing of the 6th Edition of Chaosium's Call Of Cthulhu tabletop RPG rules, as originally penned by Quake level designer Sandy Petersen.

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Re:Random Thoughts

[mwheeler01]

Also for those with a gamecube I'd highly recomend Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem which is clearly heavily influenced by Lovecraftian fiction. The more the characters are exposed to the supernatural in game the more the game messes with the character and the player. Blood would run down the walls, screams would be heard in the night and limbs would fall off only to reappear. Also the game might pretend to turn down the volume on the TV among other things. Play it with Dolby surround sound in a dark room and you'll find yourself freaking out.

Re:Popularity of this Game?

[bartok]

"It isn't like a major movie has been made recently to clue them all in"

Hellboy

Re:City of the Deep Ones

[slaker]

Good thing there's an internet!

I like my Elder Gods like I like my women: Squamous and Gibbous.

Sandy

[Torgo's Pizza]

Ahem, Sandy has done more than just do Quake. He's done fantastic work at Ensemble Studios, almost single-handedly designing the Rise of Rome expansion pack. He knows games inside-and-out. Yeah, I'm biased since I worked with him at ES but don't sell him short. He's a fantastic human being and one of the best designers in the business.

Re:Popularity of this Game?

[irokitt]

Hellboy was neither Lovecraft-inspired (although elements were thrown in) nor is it worthy of being associated with his work. I'm not being a prick here. It would be really hard to make a movie with subject matter like that and make it work. I think it would have to have a gestation like Peter Jackson's rendition of LotR: a fan who is truely interested in being true to the original theme could pull it off, but Hollywood would want to turn it into Godzilla.