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Game Information
- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Explore the ruins of a decaying building and uncover its terrible secret
- Non-linear gameplay: explore at your own pace
- Experience urban decay in high resolution graphics
- Eerie and mysterious soundtrack with full musical score
- Discover a massive world in First Person Perspective
- Use skill and cunning to search for clues and solve puzzles
- A gentle but gripping plot packed with twists and turns
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Manufacturer's Description
The eccentric architect Baron Wittard has built something really special: a city inside a building. This monumental pleasure dome, called 'The Utopia', features 1000 apartments, a shopping mall, and hundreds of offices and leisure facilities. All under one roof. Its grand opening was supposed to have been two years ago. That event never happened. A chain of mysterious events has now left the Utopia abandoned and silent. People have gone missing. Electromagnetic disturbances are increasing. These happenings all point to Wittard's desolate Utopia. Armed with only a camera and a torch, you must journey there alone to explore its winding corridors, its secret passageways, and its gloomy halls. Local townspeople say Wittard kept a terrible secret. They speak fearfully of someone or something malevolent lurking at his city. They say it is waiting and growing in power. They say time is running out... players will have to face the lurking horrors of this desolate place and find out what dark secret the Baron kept from the world.
Magazine Reviews:
"The haunting musical scores and eerie silences all combine to immerse you." (Gaminglives.com)
"Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok holds a decent pace with enough suspense to keep even the most level headed of people on the edge of their seats." (Square-go.com)
"Baron Wittard is a remarkably scary and beautiful exploration game." (Gamercast.net)
"...shaping up to be a highly enjoyable and unsettling adventure." (Game-debate.com)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I completed this game over two and a half evenings last week and while it was a pleasant enough way to pass the time it is not a great game by any stretch of the imagination. You play as a photographer sent to document a ruined building [which turns out to be inhabited by two rival spirits], but your camera has a flat battery throughout the game so you never actually photograph anything, [which is a shame as there are some nice bits of architecture I'd have liked to have photographed and had as extras when I'd finished, for desktop wallpaper perhaps] which is somewhat odd. Your character also carries a notepad but refuses to take notes so you have to have a pen and paper standing by to jot down a lot of info over the course of the game.
The setting of the game is fairly nicely done, pretty well rendered creepily atmospheric semi-ruins, and some rooms still in full original condition, though there is not enough continuity between the areas and there seems little reason for the level of decay in some areas compared to others, there is also no explanation given for the blood stains which you see about the place. In fact the is a lot of back story you are left to wonder about generally, you are definitely not left feeling you have the full picture about what has happened by the end of the game.
The game play is simple, wander round the deserted building, explore all hotspots which are fairly easy to find in most cases and solve puzzles, the puzzle themselves are of a nice level of difficulty, pleasantly challenging I found. The game says it has 'non-linear' game play but that isn't strictly true; you can't access all areas straight away by any means but it is less rigidly ordered than most games. You receive ghostly messages to explain what you need to do at near start of the game and regularly throughout which make it fairly easy to progress through the 'story', you are also occasionally 'attacked' by a ghostly presence which is never actually a threat, you can't 'die' in this game. Your character will not interact with anything other than documents, doors, switches and the puzzles, if a door is even partially blocked by a cardboard box, that's it, can't go through.
There are two ending to the game but you can't actually see that your choice has made any difference, both ending seem to imply that you will discover more on your next assignment, a possible sequel?
One thing that was already annoying me by half way though the introductory cut-scene/video is the dialogue [actually monologue, your character never speaks] which never, ever uses contractions making everything sound stilted and unnatural, it really struck me as peculiar and I sort of spent the rest of the game noticing it and saying 'How odd' to myself and 'come on, just one "I'll"' but perhaps that's just my pet niggle.
It's a fairly simple game, though really quite impressive for what is basically a two man project. In summary: good puzzles, so-so plot, stilted speech and pretty but not wonderful graphics.
The setting of the game is fairly nicely done, pretty well rendered creepily atmospheric semi-ruins, and some rooms still in full original condition, though there is not enough continuity between the areas and there seems little reason for the level of decay in some areas compared to others, there is also no explanation given for the blood stains which you see about the place. In fact the is a lot of back story you are left to wonder about generally, you are definitely not left feeling you have the full picture about what has happened by the end of the game.
The game play is simple, wander round the deserted building, explore all hotspots which are fairly easy to find in most cases and solve puzzles, the puzzle themselves are of a nice level of difficulty, pleasantly challenging I found. The game says it has 'non-linear' game play but that isn't strictly true; you can't access all areas straight away by any means but it is less rigidly ordered than most games. You receive ghostly messages to explain what you need to do at near start of the game and regularly throughout which make it fairly easy to progress through the 'story', you are also occasionally 'attacked' by a ghostly presence which is never actually a threat, you can't 'die' in this game. Your character will not interact with anything other than documents, doors, switches and the puzzles, if a door is even partially blocked by a cardboard box, that's it, can't go through.
There are two ending to the game but you can't actually see that your choice has made any difference, both ending seem to imply that you will discover more on your next assignment, a possible sequel?
One thing that was already annoying me by half way though the introductory cut-scene/video is the dialogue [actually monologue, your character never speaks] which never, ever uses contractions making everything sound stilted and unnatural, it really struck me as peculiar and I sort of spent the rest of the game noticing it and saying 'How odd' to myself and 'come on, just one "I'll"' but perhaps that's just my pet niggle.
It's a fairly simple game, though really quite impressive for what is basically a two man project. In summary: good puzzles, so-so plot, stilted speech and pretty but not wonderful graphics.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Disappointed in this game, lots of tedious wandering around looking at things that you can't interact with. Story does not unfold through solving of puzzles (you're told the story near the start of the game,) most of the puzzles are cryptic with very little use of inventory required. Length of gameplay is soley due to the length of time taken to solve each puzzle. Cursor changes are slight and often difficult to notice. Wouldn't recommend.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I enjoyed this game. It was a nostalgic journey back to the classic point and click adventures of the 90s. It features colourful and large environments to explore, some very, very difficult puzzles, and an atmospheric sound track that can be spooky in places. Overall, Baron Wittard is a game that does not take itself too seriously, and I had a good time trying to complete it.
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Not outstanding but playable
The puzzles in this game are a weird mix, some of them are truly mind-boggling but the majority are fairly simple. IMO the end is a little odd. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Steve
Make sure you get a walkthrough!
Bought this as I very much enjoyed The Lost Crown and thought it may be similar. I'm not really a veteran of this type of game, so found the puzzles neigh on impossible to... Read more
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