<P> The game was also acclaimed in several retrospective articles by various publications . The A.V. Club's Drew Toal called it "a weird and difficult game, in the best sense," while Davide Tomei from Adventure Classic Gaming described it as "a very unique game (that) brilliantly mixes in elements of action, adventure, and puzzle solving to offer up an exceptional survival horror experience ." Marshall Lemon from The Escapist acclaimed it as an example of a horror game that features firearms - based combat while still being scary and opined "the end result plays like something Lovecraft would have created if he wrote games instead of books and lived beyond the 1930s ." The game's townsfolk of Innsmouth placed ninth on GamesRadar's 2008 list of the gaming's "scariest villains ever" and 1UP.com featured it on their 2009 list of top five game worlds "where insanity is the entire point". In 2011, The Daily Telegraph listed it among the scariest games "you've never played" as second only to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, adding that this "flawed classic" was "too buggy, too tough, and criminally ignored upon release ." TechRaptor's Kyle Lawrence recommended it as an "action game within a very well written Lovecraftian tale that uses the mythos to its fullest . Anyone who has an interest in Lovecraft should brave the horrendous difficulty and glitches of the game ." PC Gamer UK put it at 87th place on their 2011 list of best PC games of all time for its frantic hotel escape sequence and "other great, scary set - pieces," calling it, "behind the bugs and clunkiness, a genuine and admirable attempt ." That same year, GamePro ranked it as the 11th best horror game of all time . </P> <P> More Call of Cthulhu franchise games were announced by Headfirst Productions . Due to the very long development cycle of Dark Corners of the Earth, the other titles were being developed alongside it . </P> <Ul> <Li> Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End was a third - person perspective survival horror title for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, which was originally announced in November 2002 as a PlayStation 2 - exclusive Call of Cthulhu: Tainted Legacy for a planned release in the fourth quarter of 2004 . It was to be a direct sequel to Dark Corners of the Earth, set in the ruins of Innsmouth and in locations along the coast of New England in modern times, nearly 80 years after the events of the original game . It was to feature a cooperative multiplayer mode for two players, each controlling one of the two characters: the gun - wielding Jacob and the magic - using Emily (in its early version, Tainted Legacy, they were Joshua and Jack Walters' granddaughter Madeline). Its gameplay was publicly presented during the E3 2005 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End was a third - person perspective survival horror title for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, which was originally announced in November 2002 as a PlayStation 2 - exclusive Call of Cthulhu: Tainted Legacy for a planned release in the fourth quarter of 2004 . It was to be a direct sequel to Dark Corners of the Earth, set in the ruins of Innsmouth and in locations along the coast of New England in modern times, nearly 80 years after the events of the original game . It was to feature a cooperative multiplayer mode for two players, each controlling one of the two characters: the gun - wielding Jacob and the magic - using Emily (in its early version, Tainted Legacy, they were Joshua and Jack Walters' granddaughter Madeline). Its gameplay was publicly presented during the E3 2005 . </Li>

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