Night Watch
Based on the most successful Russian-made movie ever, the Night Watch game asks players to take part in a millennia-old struggle of supernatural forces; a conflict of which ordinary humans are either…
Night Watch is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Nival Interactive, released 18 August 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Night Watch is
Night Watch is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nival Interactive and released in 2005. It was published by cdv Software Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Silent Storm Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the most successful Russian-made movie ever, the Night Watch game asks players to take part in a millennia-old struggle of supernatural forces; a conflict of which ordinary humans are either completely oblivious, or in which they are unwittingly being used as pawns. In the Night Watch universe, there are people among us who appear ordinary, but who are different; they call themselves "Others." These Others can channel magical power as devastating attacks and defenses. Those who support the forces of light are known as the Night Watch, while those that fight on the side of darkness are the Day Watch. These two sides have been locked in an epic battle with the common hope of one…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Night Watch holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Night Watch launched on 18 August 2005, within three weeks of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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