NecroVisioN
NecroVision is a first-person shooter that takes gamers across the frantic battlegrounds of World War I and into a dark underworld of vampires, demons and dark magic. Seeking adventure, young American Simon…
NecroVisioN is a shooter developed by The Farm 51, released 27 February 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What NecroVisioN is
NecroVisioN is a shooter game developed by The Farm 51 and released in 2009. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in 1916 during the First World War, NecroVisioN casts the player as Simon Bukner, a young American recently recruited into the British Army. His war begins on the battlefields of the Somme, where a counterattack against the German lines collapses into carnage under machine gun fire and mustard gas. Separated from his squad, Simon is drawn into a nightmare that reaches far beyond conventional warfare. A rumor has spread through the trenches of a mysterious infection, one that twists stricken men into a zombie-like state, and the horrors soon prove all too real. Alongside German soldiers, Simon finds himself confronting supernatural forces, including the walking dead, hell hounds, and…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
NecroVisioN holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Dual Core 2.0 GHz or AMD™ Athlon™ 4000+, XP – 1 GB RAM, Vista – 2 GB RAM and 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory - ATI® Radeon X1600 or Nvidia® Geforce 6800 - NOTE: Nvidia 260 GTX & Nvidia 280 GTX are not supported.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
NecroVisioN launched on 27 February 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Official trailer
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