Adventure-spillet Scratches har nettopp blitt annonsert. Det handler om den kjente skrekkromansforfattaren Michael Arthate som kommer til Blackwood Manor, som er et stort, gammelt, Viktorianskt hus som ligger i en tykk skog ved utkanten av et lite engelsk tettsted. Da været en dag er dårlig blir Michael i huset og utforsker huset i stedet. Snart får han vite alt og det ikke er som det skal være. Det er innledningen til en historie full av vendinger og skrekkopplevelser. Utviklerne Got Game står blant annet bak Myst-kopien RHEM 2 og Scratches kommer til PC i løpet av 2006.
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Scratches is an atmospheric mystery adventure game for the PC, brimming with eerie twists and terrifying surprises. Set in and around a solitary Victorian mansion concealing a terrible secret, a long since forgotten story from the past emerges to haunt the present. A careful combination of inventory-based and deductive-style puzzles, integrated with a riveting storyline, non-linear gameplay, intricately detailed graphics, and an entrancing soundtrack, immerse you in a haunting Gothic atmosphere until the final shocking revelation.
As famed horror writer Michael Arthate, you arrive at Blackwood Manor, your newly acquired home, an old Victorian house lost in the outskirts of a small English market town. While the ominous weather bodes of darker days, you are initially charmed by this peaceful and quiet place. The pleasant stillness is soon broken, however, as the rooms of this exquisite, if faded glory, mansion speak of past events, their tales echoing through its walls. As the odd noises in the basement grow ever louder, you set about solving your sanctuary’s long-held mystery.
Isolated by a washed out road, and in search of clues, you delve into every dark corner of the mansion and its untended grounds via a point-and -click interface. Examining, probing, and hunting your way through musty rooms, an overrun greenhouse, a sinister chapel, and a forbidding crypt, your investigation deepens, and you slowly become aware of one terrifying fact: you are not alone!
* Non-linear gameplay
* Point and click interface
* Inventory-based and deductive-style puzzles
* Eerie and immersive story
* Haunting Gothic atmosphere
* Intricately detailed graphics
* Entrancing soundtrack