ObsCure

ObsCure is an adventure game developed by Hydravision Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 19 achievements to unlock.

ObsCure holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 92 votes.

The main story runs about 2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible 3D card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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ObsCure launched on 1 October 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

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