Dark Earth
Description (IGDB)
Dark Earth is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC. Dark Earth takes place several centuries in the future, when a meteor collision with Earth tossed up great clouds of dust that blocked out the sun. Earth's remaining survivors began to seek refuge beneath small openings in the clouds, the few places light could be found. Those that remained in the 'dark earth' were hunted by strange creatures, infected with the darkness. To shelter themselves from the dangerous 'dark earth', the people began to form cities beneath the light called 'Stallites'. At the time of the game, most of the citizens of the stallite have forgotten their history and now worship the light as a god. The stalites are run by 'Sun Priests', who maintain order and prevent the creatures of darkness from harming the city. The game follows the story of Arkhan, a "guardian of fire", protector of the stallite 'Sparta' and the Sun Priests. After an attack on the sun priests, Arkhan has a poison thrown into his face that begins to infect him with the dark sickness. He begins to mutate into a creature of the dark and has to find a cure before his transformation is complete. Along the way, he is treated as an enemy by most of his former friends while he struggles to uncover the conspiracy behind the attack.
Histoire (IGDB)
Dark Earth takes place several centuries in the future, when a meteor collision with Earth tossed up great clouds of dust that blocked out the sun. Earth's remaining survivors began to seek refuge beneath small openings in the clouds, the few places light could be found. Those that remained in the 'dark earth' were hunted by strange creatures, infected with the darkness. To shelter themselves from the dangerous 'dark earth', the people began to form cities beneath the light called 'Stallites'. At the time of the game, most of the citizens of the stallite have forgotten their history and now worship the light as a god. The stalites are run by 'Sun Priests', who maintain order and prevent the creatures of darkness from harming the city. The game follows the story of Arkhan, a "guardian of fire", protector of the stallite 'Sparta' and the Sun Priests. After an attack on the sun priests, Arkhan has a poison thrown into his face that begins to infect him with the dark sickness. He begins to mutate into a creature of the dark and has to find a cure before his transformation is complete. Along the way, he is treated as an enemy by most of his former friends while he struggles to uncover the conspiracy behind the attack.
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Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Ne fonctionne a priori correctement que sous windaube 98 (pas eu le courage de ré-essayer tant Dark Earth est une horreur). Sous windaube xp, faut le pacher, le lancer en compatibilité 98 et passer le bureau en 16 bits. ET même comme ça, le jeu plante souvent. Les points de sauvegarde sont assez difficilement identifiables (dans cette soupe de pixels en 32 000 couleurs tout de même...) et tout se contrôle au clavier y compris les combats, injouables, la souris ne servant qu'à ramasser des objets ou pour l'inventaire. La souris est aussi active dans le menu principal uniquement représenté sous forme d'icônes mais c'est tout. Bref, l'anti-ergonomie dans toute son horreur. Les voix sont convaincantes, la musique agréable et l'ambiance étrange est des plus sympathiques mais il faut bien se rendre à l'évidence : il ne s'agit que d'un pauvre jeu d'aventure de merde et le fait qu'il soit franchouillard ne change rien à l'affaire : ça reste de la merde. »
