Blair Witch (video games)
| Blair Witch | |
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Cover art for Volume 1
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| Developer(s) |
Terminal Reality (Vol. 1) Human Head Studios (Vol. 2) Ritual Entertainment (Vol. 3) |
| Publisher(s) | Gathering of Developers |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | 3 October 2000 (Vol. 1) 25 October 2000 (Vol. 2) 21 November 2000 (Vol. 3) |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure game, psychological horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 71.58% |
| Metacritic | 73/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers |   |
| AllGame |  |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| Game Informer | 6.75/10 |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | B |
| GameSpot | 7.1/10 |
| GameSpy | 92% |
| GameZone | 8.3/10 |
| IGN | 6.8/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 70% |
| Maxim | 8/10 |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 56.42% |
| Metacritic | 56/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 6/10 |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | D |
| GameSpot | 6.7/10 |
| GameSpy | 70% |
| GameZone | 8/10 |
| IGN | 6.7/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 48% |
| ActionTrip | 3.3/10 |
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 59.10% |
| Metacritic | 55/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame | |
| Eurogamer | 3/10 |
| Game Revolution | C− |
| GameSpot | 4/10 |
| GameSpy | 69% |
| IGN | 6.8/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 37% |
| ActionTrip | 5.5/10 |
The Blair Witch video games are a trilogy of psychological horror action-adventure games (for Windows-based PCs), focusing on the backstories and the mythology of the Blair Witch media franchise. All three games use the Nocturne Engine and were published by Gathering of Developers, although each game was developed by a different team.
While Volume 1 is intended to take place within the fictional universe of the Blair Witch, the game is technically also a sequel to Nocturne, the game for which the trilogy's engine was originally developed. Elspeth "Doc" Holliday was a minor character in Nocturne, with several other characters from that game also appearing, including Master Khen Rigzin, Colonel Hapscomb, General Biggs, an unnamed secretary, Svetlana Lupescu, and The Stranger appearing at the start of the game. The Stranger reappears later in the game, on the fourth day, as the player's partner. Some enemies from Nocturne such as bat-like creatures and a werewolf also appear in the beginning of the game in the training session.
The story takes place in the year 1941, and with the exception of the opening section in the Spookhouse HQ, the game takes place over four days. Following her training, research scientist Elspeth "Doc" Holliday is dispatched to the town of Burkittsville by the Spookhouse, a fictional classified government agency charged with investigating paranormal occurrences. When given the assignment to look into the legend of the Blair Witch, she is partnered with the Stranger, but decides to go on her own as the Stranger is skeptikal of the witches existence.
It is reported that during the early 1940s, a hermit named Rustin Parr abducted seven children from Burkittsville and, apparently without motive, murdered all but one in his basement. He forced the surviving child, Kyle Brody, to stand in a corner and listen to the screams of the children being tortured and murdered. Afterwards Rustin Parr left his house in the forest, walked into town, and said to a local shopkeeper, "I'm finally finished."
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