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.
| Curse: The Eye of Isis | |
|---|---|
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| 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 |
| Engine | RenderWare |
| Platform(s) | Windows Xbox PlayStation 2 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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.
Reception edit
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| GameRankings | PC: 59%[4] XBOX: 60%[5] |
| Metacritic | PC: 63/100[6] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| Computer and Video Games | PC: 5.7/10[7] |
| GameSpot | PC: 6.8/10[9] |
| GameSpy | PC:   [10] |
| GameZone | PC: 7.3/10[11] |
| IGN | PC: 7.8/10[8] |
| Just Adventure | PC: D[12] |
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
- ^ "Spirits and Spells Ships". 2006-11-25. Archived from the original on 2006-11-25. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "What's New?". Eurogamer.net. 2003-11-14. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ^ "Video Game Reviews, Articles, Trailers and more - Metacritic". Archived from the original on 2019-12-05.
- ^ "Video Game Reviews, Articles, Trailers and more - Metacritic". Archived from the original on 2019-12-05.
- ^ a b "Curse: The Eye of Isis". Metacritic.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100726234039/https://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=100285
- ^ "PC Games, Wikis, Cheats, Walkthroughs, News, Reviews & Videos". Archived from the original on 2004-01-04.
- ^ "Curse: The Eye of Isis Review".
- ^ "GameSpy: Curse: The Eye of Isis - Page 1". Archived from the original on 2004-06-05.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20031204220827/https://www.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r19652.htm
- ^ "CURSE: THE EYE OF ISIS Review: Just Adventure - Reviews Walkthroughs and Adventure News!". Archived from the original on 2003-11-26.