‘Penumbra: Black Plague’ Bringing Horror to the PC Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

The horror-adventure title Penumbra: Black Plague from Paradox Interactive and Frictional Games is currently shipping to stores in North America, so when you wake up tomorrow morning it should be on shelves. If it isn’t, your local retailer is either setting the bar for its employees too low, or the UPS/FED-EX guy has some explaining to do.

This is the second installment in the Penumbra series and this latest addition to the survival horror series invites gamers to continue Philip’s quest from the cliffhanger finale of the previous episode.

Key Features in Penumbra: Black Plague include:

• Cutting-edge game engine featuring modern 3D and physics technologies: Adapted motion blur effects and a new unified lighting system with real-time lightning create great depth with a realistic atmosphere of psychological horror.
• Compelling and detailed story:Find the answers to questions of the mystery of Philip’s lost father throughout the game, with new explanations and a complete storyline wrap up.
• Highly interactive environments:Interact with any object not nailed to the ground! Focus on, pick up and move around objects through a simple drag and drop interface.
• Environmental sounds system: The sounds of the different environments are contributing to the atmosphere and give the player scaring hints of dangers.
• Puzzle solving challenges: Horror adventure game in puzzle-like style with bonuses and incentives to challenge the player throughout the game.

The standard PC version of Penumbra: Black Plague may be hitting stores as we speak, but those who are interested in the HaptX Edition will unfortunately have to wait until April 16th – this version of the game can be played with the Novint Falcon controller.

For more information on Penumbra: Black Plague check out our previous posts where you will also be able to download a demo of the game.

Via: Press Release