Clive Barker's Jericho
Clive Barker's Jericho is a video game that consists of 8 releases
Jericho is a horror-themed FPS from the mind of screen legend Clive Barker. In the game, a Jericho Team must fight through a lost city to destroy the evil at its heart.
Jericho is an FPS published by Codemasters. It is the third game to feature the involvement of horror writer Clive Barker (including EA's Undying and the canceled Demonik). In it the player takes charge of the seven-man Jericho squad as they investigate the Middle Eastern city of Al Khali. They fight through several historical eras, such as World War I and the Crusades, encountering enemies from each period. At the center of the city is the Firstborn, which God created before Mankind.The squad uses a combination of conventional firearms and supernatural powers (including pyrokinesis and telekinesis). Players can posses any member of the squad to use these powers, revive injured members, and issue squad commands.
The game is single-player only.
Origin
The note bellow is taken directly from the Clive Barker's Jericho Instruction Booklet
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ACCORDING TO CERTAIN GNOSTIC AND APOCRYPHAL TEXTS, BEFORE ADAM, BEFORE EVE, THERE WAS THE FIRSTBORN - GOD'S FIRST ABORTIVE ATTEMPT AT CREATING A BEING IN HIS OWN IMAGE...
This entity was neither male nor female, dark nor light; a singular being that was both horrible and terrible to behold. Disturbed by the power of his creation, God left it unfinished, banishing The Firstborn to the Abyss, forsaken and unloved.
In its place, God started afresh. He divided his next creation into two sexes, gave it intellect, reason, emotion. He gave it the gift of love. He gave it a soul.
But something remained behind. On the spot where it first touched the mortal world, The Firstborn left a taint so powerful that even God's expulsion couldn't keep it from breaking through into the mortal world to reclaim its birthright.
In a remote desert in the Middle East, near the cradle of all civilization, the Earth was wounded. The presence of The Firstborn continued to fester, eon after eon, breaking down the fabric of reality as human civilization flourished around it.
The prophecy states that The Firstborn will break through into our world seven times. With each appearance, it will ride disease, corruption and perversity like an all-consuming wave until seven mystics sacrifice themselves to drive if back into the Abyss.
The prophecy states that the seventh attempt will be its
last. The Firstborn will either find freedom, or destruction.
The Firstborn has made six previous attempts at escape, always returning to the spot of its conception. Due to the immense power contained within, this piece of earth has been contested for thousands of years by conqueror after conqueror, each with his own agenda for God's first creation.
On it's first appearance, seven Sumerian priests entombed The Firstborn within a holy ziggurat and guarded its prison until the desert and their enemies consumed their great civilization and the site was lost.
The Greeks were the next landlords, followed by the Romans, the Persians, the Crusaders... and on and on until present day. This is the bedrock on which the modern city of Al Khali now stands. Unbeknownst to its residents, they reside on the most unholy ground on the face of the Earth.
Every time The Firstborn is banished, it takes with it a larger piece of the Earth to add to its realm. Whenever it next returns, those layers of time and space overlap with reality, creating a place out of space, a time without time.
Like a Chinese puzzle box, the city of Al Khali has been transformed by The Firstborn into a layer after layer of time and space.
The further you go into the city, the further back in time you travel until the point of origin, the moment The Firstborn came into being.
Characters
The game features 7 members of a Jericho squad:Devin Ross
Weapon: Patrioteer
Primary Fire: Automatic Assault Rifle
Secondary Fire: Underslung Automatic Shotgun
Special ability : Resurrection
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Xavier Jones
Weapon: Patrioteer
Primary Fire: Automatic Assault Rifle
Secondary Fire: Underslung Automatic Shotgun
Special abilities : Astral Projection and Possession
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Simone Cole
Weapon: Assault Rifle
Primary Fire: Automatic Fire
Secondary Fire: Grenades
Special abilities : Infinite Loop (Slows down time for all but Simone) and Firestorm (Increases damage dealt by squads gunfire)
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Paul Rawlings
Weapon: Faith & Destiny, Twin Desert Eagles
Primary Fire: Fire Left Gun
Secondary Fire: Fire Right Gun
Special abilities : Ghost Heal (Acts like Devin's Resurrection) and Vlad's Curse (Drains enemy health and heals your squad)
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Abigail Black
Weapon: Flash Thought
Primary Fire: Sniper Round
Secondary Fire: Grenade Launcher
Special abilities : Ghost Bullet (Guide bullet from one enemy to the other) and Telekinesis (Can deflect certain attacks)
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Frank Delgado
Weapon: Hells Keeper / Pain
Primary Fire: Continuous fire Mini-Gun
Secondary Fire: Semi-Automatic Pistol
Special abilities : Ababinili Attack (Spirit homes in on enemies)and Ababinili Flame Barrier (Protective)
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Billie Church
Weapon: Nodachi / Kenjuu
Primary Fire: Nodachi (Sword strikes/combo)
Secondary Fire: Kenjuu (Sub-machine gun pistol)
Special abilities : Blood Ward (Paralyzes enemies)and Fire Ward (Damages enemies)
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Special Editions
In North America, a special edition of the game was released in limited quantities through GameStop. This version of the game came packaged in a steelbook case and included an "Image Vault" Art Book and a "Making of" DVD.Sequel
Clive Barker in one of his recent interviews stated that he is currently working on the a sequel and gave fans the hint on where it will begin, in a ship with hundreds of children at the middle of the sea. Clive Barker's also asserted that this game will be a trilogy. An exact release date is yet to be confirmed by Codemaster.Xbox 360 Game Installation
Clive Barker's Jericho requires 5.6GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.
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