Codemasters has announced a new game based on the works of the very strange writer Clive Barker. Jericho is about a band of paranomral experts who fight some creepy things in an ancient city, as you will see inside.
The game is being described by the publisher as a shock horror game, and that is exactly what I have been waiting for. I like games that force me to inspect all my closets and dark corners befor and after I play. The screenshot features characters that look like a nightmare vision of Assassin's Creed, if you were suffering from a brain injury while playing. The images are a nice treat on Halloween, but don't expect the game out for another year or so.
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Created from an original concept and story, Clive Barker’s Jericho promises an overload of sensory horror shock as players journey through hellish locations and slices of time. A squad-based horror FPS, the Jericho of the title refers to the Jericho Team, a seven-man strike force that protects government interests from paranormal threats. Trained in both conventional warfare and the arcane arts, each Jericho Team member is an expert in different para-psychological disciplines, including clairvoyance, alchemy, blood magic and exorcism.
Clive Barker’s Jericho leads the Jericho Team toward a source of ancient evil so supremely powerful that it has broken through time into our world and is threatening to engulf the Earth. At ground zero lies the Middle Eastern city of Al-Khali, the site of a huge, secret archaeological dig and paranormal research centre, now the heart of a dimensional rift.
Players must navigate Al Khali’s labyrinthine of streets, alleys and structures, moving block by block in search of the rift. As the squad approaches the target, the city now crawling with hellish denizens emerging from the source, the team is forced to rely less and less on traditional weapons and instead on harnessing their combined psychic abilities to defeat the supernatural nemesis no matter how horrific their looks or attacks may be.
