Penumbra: Black Plague
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Black Plague picks up exactly where Overture left off with the protagonist, Philip, waking up in a cell after being knocked unconcious at the end of the previous game. Upon escaping the his prison cell Philip manages to find clues that hint to his father, Howard, still being somewhere inside the underground facility. But he soon realises he is not alone down there and must avoid the infected creatures that also inhabit the same underground laboratory. If that wasn't hard enough he must also try and ignore the voices inside his mind and the various traps set up aswell by the vile infected.
It was released on February 12th 2008.
But it appears the facility has long since been abandoned with the staff having either been turned into the infected who are strange zombie like creatures or simply dead. However in a strange turn of events it appears Philip has also contracted the virus which seems to turn others into the infected creatures. Philip though does not seem to have joined with the hive-mind but instead devloped a split personality his own regular one and a darker more malevolant one who goes by the name of Clarence. Its this voice in his head that continually taunts and ridicules him throughout the game.
Upon further exploration of the facility Philip comes into contact over the communication network with a woman by the name of Amabel Swanson who was a member of the Archaic researchers and she offers to help Philip in his infected state if he can make his way to the other side of the facility where she is located. As Philip makes his way to where she is located he comes across various documents and pieces of data that begin to explain what the Archaic were doing there. It turns out they were trying to locate an ancient entity by the name of Tuurngait. As they searched for the entity they stumbled upon it, released it and it transformed itself into the virus that turned the personnel in the base into the infected creatures they are now.
Further investigation and exploration sheds light on the fate that befell Philip's father. It appears Howard managed to make contact with this mysterious entity, Tuurngait, but he committed suicide before sending his letter to Philip begging him to destroy his research documents and all knowledge he had obtained. As he finally finds Amabel after having to put up with Clarence and his madness Philip hallucinates and accidentally kills Amabel. Looking through her data and using a specialised machine in her lab Philip manages to remove his other personality, Clarence, for good.
However it causes Clarence to be transported into a corpse who then proceeds to attack Philip but the risen corpse is soon destroyed by a group of infected creatures who are sent to save Philip by the Tuurngait itself. The mysterious entity then proceeds to speak to Philip through his mind and puts him through a number of spiritual tests to basically test his ability to be apart of the hive-mind that the Tuurngait seems to use to control those infected by its virus. Upon completing the test the Tuurngait reveals the full story of what occured.
It seems that many many millions of years ago the Tuurngait arrived on the planet Earth and lived alongside the native inuit where it infected them with a virus to pass on its vast knowledge. As humanity began to evolve and expand the Tuurngait severed its link with humanity and burrowed down into the earth where it went into a form of hibernation. Its there that the Archaic organisation located the entity and it struck out in self defense at being disturbed and threatened. It realised that the majority of humanity was to be commended but as individuals they were failures due to their destructive and selfish natures.
With Philip however it felt something different about him and leaves its fate in his hands but begs he contact someone above ground to destroy the laboratory that Archaic constructed and allow the Tuurngait to continue its slumber. Its then revealed that the entity made the same request to Howard, Philip's father, but instead of doing as his father asked Philip came to investigate and now it must ask him to do the same thing. This is where the game now links back to the start where we see Philip sending an email to his friend explaining the situation and the request by the Tuurngait.
However Philip decides to follow his own path and not one laid out for him by another being and mentions he had more in common with his split personality Clarence than he did with the entity who wished to have control over other people with its hive mind. At the end of the email he tells his friend the location of the Tuurngait and asks that his friend come and destroy both it and the remaining infected.
An exploration based adventure RPG by the Swedish developer Frictional Games. Black Plague focuses on where the previous game in the story ends. And requires the player to traverse an underground facility full of zombie-like creatures which they must avoid if they are to survive.
Overview
Developed by the Swedish developer Frictional Games Penumbra: Black Plague is an adventure game with focus on exploration in a first person perspective with themes of horror survival and first person shooter aspects to its gameplay as well. There is heavy emphasis on exploration to solve the many physics based puzzles the game has to offer which can provide some interesting gameplay and requires players to think out some strategy to continue. Unlike the previous game, Penumbra: Overture, it requires players to avoid confrontation and combat with enemies and focus more on avoiding and running away from them instead of standing and fighting.Black Plague picks up exactly where Overture left off with the protagonist, Philip, waking up in a cell after being knocked unconcious at the end of the previous game. Upon escaping the his prison cell Philip manages to find clues that hint to his father, Howard, still being somewhere inside the underground facility. But he soon realises he is not alone down there and must avoid the infected creatures that also inhabit the same underground laboratory. If that wasn't hard enough he must also try and ignore the voices inside his mind and the various traps set up aswell by the vile infected.
It was released on February 12th 2008.
Synopsis
Initially the game starts with Philip sending an email to a friend telling him to finish the job he started and explaining his situation and its here that the game begins as a narrative to Philip typing and reading his email that he sent to his friend. He wakes up in a cell after being knock unconcious at the end of the previous game and manages to escape from the prison only to find himself inside some underground facility or laboratory. It turns out the facility belongs to a somewhat secretive and elusive organisation the Archaic Elevated Caste who are commited to researching and finding ancient knowledge and things related to it.But it appears the facility has long since been abandoned with the staff having either been turned into the infected who are strange zombie like creatures or simply dead. However in a strange turn of events it appears Philip has also contracted the virus which seems to turn others into the infected creatures. Philip though does not seem to have joined with the hive-mind but instead devloped a split personality his own regular one and a darker more malevolant one who goes by the name of Clarence. Its this voice in his head that continually taunts and ridicules him throughout the game.
Upon further exploration of the facility Philip comes into contact over the communication network with a woman by the name of Amabel Swanson who was a member of the Archaic researchers and she offers to help Philip in his infected state if he can make his way to the other side of the facility where she is located. As Philip makes his way to where she is located he comes across various documents and pieces of data that begin to explain what the Archaic were doing there. It turns out they were trying to locate an ancient entity by the name of Tuurngait. As they searched for the entity they stumbled upon it, released it and it transformed itself into the virus that turned the personnel in the base into the infected creatures they are now.
Further investigation and exploration sheds light on the fate that befell Philip's father. It appears Howard managed to make contact with this mysterious entity, Tuurngait, but he committed suicide before sending his letter to Philip begging him to destroy his research documents and all knowledge he had obtained. As he finally finds Amabel after having to put up with Clarence and his madness Philip hallucinates and accidentally kills Amabel. Looking through her data and using a specialised machine in her lab Philip manages to remove his other personality, Clarence, for good.
However it causes Clarence to be transported into a corpse who then proceeds to attack Philip but the risen corpse is soon destroyed by a group of infected creatures who are sent to save Philip by the Tuurngait itself. The mysterious entity then proceeds to speak to Philip through his mind and puts him through a number of spiritual tests to basically test his ability to be apart of the hive-mind that the Tuurngait seems to use to control those infected by its virus. Upon completing the test the Tuurngait reveals the full story of what occured.
It seems that many many millions of years ago the Tuurngait arrived on the planet Earth and lived alongside the native inuit where it infected them with a virus to pass on its vast knowledge. As humanity began to evolve and expand the Tuurngait severed its link with humanity and burrowed down into the earth where it went into a form of hibernation. Its there that the Archaic organisation located the entity and it struck out in self defense at being disturbed and threatened. It realised that the majority of humanity was to be commended but as individuals they were failures due to their destructive and selfish natures.
With Philip however it felt something different about him and leaves its fate in his hands but begs he contact someone above ground to destroy the laboratory that Archaic constructed and allow the Tuurngait to continue its slumber. Its then revealed that the entity made the same request to Howard, Philip's father, but instead of doing as his father asked Philip came to investigate and now it must ask him to do the same thing. This is where the game now links back to the start where we see Philip sending an email to his friend explaining the situation and the request by the Tuurngait.
However Philip decides to follow his own path and not one laid out for him by another being and mentions he had more in common with his split personality Clarence than he did with the entity who wished to have control over other people with its hive mind. At the end of the email he tells his friend the location of the Tuurngait and asks that his friend come and destroy both it and the remaining infected.
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