- Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual
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Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual Developer(s) City Interactive Publisher(s) City Interactive Distributor(s) City Interactive, Steam (online)[1] Series Chronicles of Mystery Platform(s) PC (Windows) Release date(s) - USA November 10, 2008
- EU November 11, 2008
- RU April 4, 2009
Genre(s) Adventure Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) Media/distribution DVD Digital download System requirements - System: Windows XP Window Vista
- Processor: 1.5 GHz
- RAM: 512 MB
- Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce or ATI Radeon 64 MB
- Sound card: DirectX -compatible
- Hard drive: 1 GB of free space
- DirectX: 9.0c
Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual is an adventure game for PC, developed and published by City Interactive in 2008.
Contents
Gameplay
The game begins with Sylvie Leroux writing an article on Malta, and seeing a vision of Knights Templar. A person on the phone informs her that her uncle, archeologist as well, have gone missing. Sylvie packs up a suitcase and travels to the archeological site in Gozo, where, she believes, she might find her uncle. Upon entering the site, she discovered that the police have taken control of the site. Not only did they took control of the site, but they managed to take her uncle's house under control as well. She fakes her ID and presents herself as a reporter. As a reporter, by chance, she finds 4 photographs with cubical-shaped stones on them, and two photos with Maltese shroud. She suspects that her uncle's disappearance have something to do with this. When she comes back from Gozo, she finds out that her uncle's house has been ransacked, but nothing is stolen. She also finds out that in a note to James, he explains the breakup of Teplars and Hospitallers. She then travels from Malta to Instanbul, Turkey, where she enters into an art gallery and talks to the art gallery's director about the stones. But the gallery's manager was a suspicious and unfriendly person, so she left. Sylvie is desperate to get the stones, that she suspects are located somewhere in the gallery. She sneaks through backyard into an attic, in which she finds boxes in which she suspects located the illegal merchandise, including the stones, of which photographs she have. She opens the boxes. In one of them she finds the Maltese shroud, and in the other she finds 4 cubical stones. But, as she was about to put them into her pocket, somebody hit her. The only thing she remembers is that the gallery's manager was scolding her for something, and that the guards then kick her outside. She then travels to Vatican. The game ends with Sylvie's uncle being killed by trying to break up a gun fight, between James, and inspector Gronc, over the illumination beliefs.
Oddities
In one of the games location, there is a poster, which promotes future game of City Interactive which was unofficialy called Art of Murder 2.
Reception
The game received a rating of 3.7 from Cheatcc.com, mentioning variety of environments, but at the same time lack of time being spent in a particular location, quoting: "The Scorpio Ritual features a large variety of locations and large environments, but each is still reasonably contained." A 7.0 from GameZone quoting next: "This is one of the nicest looking adventure games I’ve seen." And 7.5 from IGN.com, saying in its closing comments: "The Scorpio Ritual left me with nothing but a stunned expression and a heartache the like of which I haven't felt since 2007's Culpa Innata."
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