About This Game Visiting Rome from Chicago, where he works as a doctor, ex-priest James Murphy answers a mysterious call for help from his friend Cristoforo. The disappearance of a briefcase containing compromising documents is enough to convince James that his friend is a victim of something shady and sinister. The Vatican's involvement and some strange parallels with his own traumatic past inspire James to get to the bottom of this mystery. Along this dangerous and disturbing path, James finds the most unlikely travelling companion who will question his deepest beliefs. And so the two characters begin both a physical journey in search of the truth, and a metaphysical exploration of the inner soul and the darkest secrets that everyone hides, even a "champion of the faith" like James. Rome is the stage for this adventure – a city bathed in eternal twilight, its skies tinted the color of blood spilled in more than thirty years of intrigue: blood of innocents and guilty, unknown and famous victims alike.KEY FEATURESShadows on the Vatican is a thrilling new point-and-click adventure in 4 acts, inspired by real events in recent Italian history and freely adapted from the bestseller of David Yallop "In God's Name". Art direction by Lorenzo Ruggiero (Marvel/DC Comics)Over 10 locations per episode with high resolution graphics and Full HD supportRealistic characters with hours of motion-capture animationsWell integrated puzzles and several hours of gameplayAnimated coloured comics by award winner Daniela di Matteo 7aa9394dea Title: Shadows on the Vatican Act I: GreedGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:10th Art Studio, Daring TouchPublisher:Adventure Productions, Daring TouchFranchise:Shadows on the VaticanRelease Date: 10 Jun, 2014 Shadows On The Vatican Act I: Greed Download 12 Mb its allright. nothing outstanding, but a nice litle game5\/10. Writing this review just to point out that the Key Features section of the store page for this game is almost entirely false. "...a thrilling new point-and-click adventure in 4 acts" False. There is no indication that parts three and four will ever be complete. "Art direction by Lorenzo Ruggiero" True, but a third tier inker with a bog standard resume seems like stretching the truth a bit too far in order to use the Marvel\/DC credit."...with high resolution graphics and Full HD support" False. Low quality models, backgrounds, etc., The HD version will not run on many systems and the developer's (paraphrased) solution is "Oh well, just run standard. The only difference is full HD backgrounds" meaning that "Full HD support" is an outright lie."Realistic characters with hours of motion-capture animations" False. Awkward student-level character model design and laughable "motion capture.""Well integrated puzzles..." False."Animated coloured comics..." False. Zooming in and out and panning on a still image is hardly animation.All told, you'll have a better time reading the wonderfully florid text of the store page. The quality of writing here is far better than the in-game text and dialogues. It was so well written, it convinced me to buy this below average, overly-ambitious game with all the red flags of a terrible adventure experience.. Enjoyable Story with some great puzzles that make actual sense. I like the artwork and the setting. Has maybe not aged fantastically well. Good Game all in all, for 6 bucks you get between 2 and 3 hours of old school-y Point and Clicking. Just keep in mind that it is only the first part of a story, but a fine one at that.. Summary: A lackluster point and click adventure with standard puzzles. Recommended for fans of the genre only. Pros:Good backround music.Backdrops and cut scenes are well done. Interesting plot.Cons: I found the voice acting poor. Character animation is poor. Would I buy episode 2? Yes but I would hope for an improvement.. I deleted my first review and thought, ok I will give the second part a chance. Still have the same feeling the developer does not know how to make an adventure game. The choice of game engine is terrible, on a good rig it still loads like many seconds, eg try to save the game and go make a coffee. Characte modeling is terrible and feels clunky. Gameplay is simple left\/right mouse click, that's ok. But implementing two character model into this game is nonsence, because there is no need for that and could have been done automatically. Oh and yes, there's dissapearing inventory screen bug, that dev says has been resolved - it's not.So we come to the story. Every adventure game must have a good story, other shortcomings don't mean much when you have a good story. This game does not have a great story, it feels rushed and just does not have any vibe. Some religious nonsense - Vatican is funneling money. Yeah right really interesting.Characters are poorly written and I don't even remember protagonist names atm I am writing this.Ok the scenery should be in Rome. There's no feeling, not a slight touch even that the player is in Rome - artists don't have no impression of Rome or have just been rushed by the production again. It's almost like put Super Mario there and BANG where're in Italy : )This game is not worth the money and I don't recommend it.. This game has a Broken Sword vibe to it, and maybe a little Dan Brown thrown in as well. I was entertained through the whole experience and was quite pleased with a smaller developer achieving the level of production value present in this title. If (and hopefully when) the next act is released I would purchase it without a second thought.. In short this game feels very rough. The animations are clunky and jerky as well as character models are not the best quality. The comic cut scenes, which I looked forward to most, are low res. Imo, the best thing in the game is the character portraits while talking (if you have that option on). The load screens are absolutely awful, long and drawn out. Especially when saving\/loading. It feels extremely boring and unclear of what your next task is and it feels slow and almost pointless in how to progress. The game was lacking, the story seemed like it might have potential. Personally I'd rather just watch a walkthrough.. While I have seen the investigative mechanics and puzzels done better, the story still holds up and would make this a worth while buy for people interested in point and click storys.That said: The last update on act 3 (out of 4) came 2015 and ever since it's silence or an ominous ";)" from a Dev in the forums, so while I am not saying that this game is dead, I will recommend to hold off on the buy until all 4 chapters are available just so you don't waste your money. What's there is fun with 2 likeable main characters, but it's only half the story - not selfcontained.*EDIT* It seems like I missed a developer announcement via facebook regarding chapter 3. Work seems to continue, link below by Paggio, one of the Devs.Do not buy until the rest is released. The recommendation would be a firm "Yes" if all chapters were out.
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Shadows On The Vatican Act I: Greed Download 12 Mb
Updated: Mar 19, 2020
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