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It's been a while since I've posted anything, so... here's something to undo that. Oh, never before has the perspective so butchered as it is in this picture. Oh well, I'm still learning to use it.

This is a game I haven't played in ages. Mainly because I couldn't get that bitch to work. But recently I managed to revive it and, it hasn't aged well. I mean, it was buggy back then, but the other flaws really stand out nowadays. And that's a shame, because underneath all of that is really great idea. I'll explain what's wrong with them later.

It's like you took the movies Running man, Night of the living dead and... probably Exorcist and put them into blender. Basically it's about a reality show called Devil inside, hosted by Jack T. Ripper (subtle name there) who sends Dave Cooper to investigate paranormal incident in house called Shadow Gate.

As you arrive at the spot, you'll notice that the dead are walking there. But aparently Dave isn't very excited about that and won't hesitate to make a smartass comments, which sadly aren't nearly as epic as they're in Duke Nukem. Also, Dave has dark secret, he can turn into his demon alter ego- Deva providing you two unique styles of gameplay. Dave uses weapons and Deva uses magic. The good thing about playing as her is that you don't waste ammo for Dave's weapons. But there's a catch- your mana pool is extremely low, so you shoudn't waste it on enemies you can avoid.

The cause of the problems at Shadow Gate is undead mass murderer known as the Night howler. He commands horde of undead criminals, each type representing the way they died. Some of them are featured in this picture- the guy that got his head chopped off is the electocution victim, but for some reason in the game he looks like he's been skinned, which is odd, as the skinned victim is different type of enemy. The giant floating thing behind Dave is the Gas Victim. Aparently when you die by poisonous gas, you'll turn into a gas balloon. But the best enemy by far, the one that makes the whole game worth it despite it's many issues is the zombie granny wielding Uzi. Wow, this is the most ridiculous and awesome enemy I've ever faced period.

I think I've delayed the inevitable long enough. It's time to talk about the gameplay. In any normal game you can walk forvard and perform the sidestep at the same time, but if you try it here, our hero will either freeze in place or will get a seizure. The camera is broken as well, it can get you seriously injured or killed. Another really weird one is that whenever you collect the shotgun in the lounge, the camera completely changes from the standart TPS into Resident evil-like style camera, which makes the game unplayable, because the bad movement really stands out. You might think "oh, he accidently switched the camera", but I didn't. First- it happened multiple times and second- you cannot change the camera style in this game. The AI is also very poor, some enemies stopped chasing me when I got behind them! Seriously, I haven't seen anything like it in any other game. And I'm not even counting the various graphical glitches and the game crashing few times.

But despite all it's problems I'll always have a soft spot for this game, mainly for one thing- it was one of the first games I've encountered that was fully in Czech, even the dubbing, so I could understand perfectly. Sure, the voiceacting is really really bad, but back then I was grateful for that, so I can forgive this part (it's not the same thing when it comes to Witcher).

There's only very few fanart pictures of this game, so I decided that has to change.

Characters (c) Cryo interactive

Description
It's been a while since I've posted anything, so... here's something to undo that. Oh, never before has the perspective so butchered as it is in this picture. Oh well, I'm still learning to use it.

This is a game I haven't played in ages. Mainly because I couldn't get that bitch to work. But recently I managed to revive it and, it hasn't aged well. I mean, it was buggy back then, but the other flaws really stand out nowadays. And that's a shame, because underneath all of that is really great idea. I'll explain what's wrong with them later.

It's like you took the movies Running man, Night of the living dead and... probably Exorcist and put them into blender. Basically it's about a reality show called Devil inside, hosted by Jack T. Ripper (subtle name there) who sends Dave Cooper to investigate paranormal incident in house called Shadow Gate.

As you arrive at the spot, you'll notice that the dead are walking there. But aparently Dave isn't very excited about that and won't hesitate to make a smartass comments, which sadly aren't nearly as epic as they're in Duke Nukem. Also, Dave has dark secret, he can turn into his demon alter ego- Deva providing you two unique styles of gameplay. Dave uses weapons and Deva uses magic. The good thing about playing as her is that you don't waste ammo for Dave's weapons. But there's a catch- your mana pool is extremely low, so you shoudn't waste it on enemies you can avoid.

The cause of the problems at Shadow Gate is undead mass murderer known as the Night howler. He commands horde of undead criminals, each type representing the way they died. Some of them are featured in this picture- the guy that got his head chopped off is the electocution victim, but for some reason in the game he looks like he's been skinned, which is odd, as the skinned victim is different type of enemy. The giant floating thing behind Dave is the Gas Victim. Aparently when you die by poisonous gas, you'll turn into a gas balloon. But the best enemy by far, the one that makes the whole game worth it despite it's many issues is the zombie granny wielding Uzi. Wow, this is the most ridiculous and awesome enemy I've ever faced period.

I think I've delayed the inevitable long enough. It's time to talk about the gameplay. In any normal game you can walk forvard and perform the sidestep at the same time, but if you try it here, our hero will either freeze in place or will get a seizure. The camera is broken as well, it can get you seriously injured or killed. Another really weird one is that whenever you collect the shotgun in the lounge, the camera completely changes from the standart TPS into Resident evil-like style camera, which makes the game unplayable, because the bad movement really stands out. You might think "oh, he accidently switched the camera", but I didn't. First- it happened multiple times and second- you cannot change the camera style in this game. The AI is also very poor, some enemies stopped chasing me when I got behind them! Seriously, I haven't seen anything like it in any other game. And I'm not even counting the various graphical glitches and the game crashing few times.

But despite all it's problems I'll always have a soft spot for this game, mainly for one thing- it was one of the first games I've encountered that was fully in Czech, even the dubbing, so I could understand perfectly. Sure, the voiceacting is really really bad, but back then I was grateful for that, so I can forgive this part (it's not the same thing when it comes to Witcher).

There's only very few fanart pictures of this game, so I decided that has to change.

Characters (c) Cryo interactive