Curse: The Eye of Isis

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Curse: The Eye of Isis
Developer(s)Asylum Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)Sai Wun Poon
Designer(s)Jacqui Jomain
Programmer(s)George Kartvelishvili
Ed Key
Graeme Baird
Ian Cottrell
Martin Fermor
Richard Steer
Artist(s)Jason White
Writer(s)Dan Gould
Louis Ho
Composer(s)Mike Willox
EngineRenderWare
Platform(s)Windows
Xbox
PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: October 20, 2003 (PC)[2]
  • NA: October 28, 2003 (Xbox)[1]
  • EU: November 14, 2003[3]
Genre(s)Survival horror
Mode(s)Single player

Curse: The Eye of Isis is a survival horror video game that was developed by British studio Asylum Entertainment and published by DreamCatcher Interactive and Wanadoo for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Windows. It was released stateside for Windows in October 2003 and for Xbox in April 2004. The PlayStation 2 version was only released in Europe.

It shares the same sort of atmospheric setting, gameplay, fixed camera angles, and ammo preservation as the earlier Resident Evil games, as well as many other archetypal survival horror games in the genre, such as ObsCure and Silent Hill.

The Xbox version of the game was very briefly backwards compatible with the Xbox 360, but was removed from the list because of glitches on December 1, 2005. The game remains unplayable on that system.

Story[edit]

The game is set in 1890s victorian London. Darien Dane was invited by his childhood female friend Victoria Sutton to see the egyptian exhibition of British Museum, where an ancient and valuable statue known as the Eye of Isis, recovered by the father of Darien, the archaeologist, dr. Stanley Dane. However, upon arriving, he finds the museum is closed, because some thieves break in and steal the statue and unleashes a powerful curse that brings back to life to mummies and other dead. Darien is absorbed equally in the museum and, with the help of Abdul Wahid, friend of his parents, facing thugs, mummies and revived dead, seeking to save his female friend and to end the curse.

Reception[edit]

The game received mixed reception upon release.[6]

TeamXbox gave a mixed review, calling it an "average" game but that "being a budget title, gamers will find that Curse is one of the more solid el cheapo titles, and worth the twenty bucks".[citation needed]

Game Informer gave a generally negative review, comparing the game to a "B-horror movie", and stated that "the menus are clunky, the map is useless, and combat is too easy", although the controls were noted as above average, especially compared to the Resident Evil series.[citation needed]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ "DreamCatcher Games Ships Curse: The Eye of Isis on PC-CD". 2006-11-25. Archived from the original on 2006-11-25. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  3. ^ "What's New?". Eurogamer.net. 2003-11-14. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  4. ^ "Video Game Reviews, Articles, Trailers and more - Metacritic". Archived from the original on 2019-12-05.
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  6. ^ a b "Curse: The Eye of Isis". Metacritic.
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100726234039/https://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=100285
  8. ^ "PC Games, Wikis, Cheats, Walkthroughs, News, Reviews & Videos". Archived from the original on 2004-01-04.
  9. ^ "Curse: The Eye of Isis Review".
  10. ^ "GameSpy: Curse: The Eye of Isis - Page 1". Archived from the original on 2004-06-05.
  11. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20031204220827/https://www.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r19652.htm
  12. ^ "CURSE: THE EYE OF ISIS Review: Just Adventure - Reviews Walkthroughs and Adventure News!". Archived from the original on 2003-11-26.
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