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Pariah

Pariah is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Brainbox Games, HIP Games and Digital Extremes. It was released on May 3, 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It uses a modified version of the Unreal…

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Pariah is a shooter developed by Brainbox Games, released 3 May 2005 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Pariah is

Pariah is a shooter game developed by Brainbox Games and released in 2005. It was published by Groove Games. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Havok.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pariah is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Brainbox Games, HIP Games and Digital Extremes. It was released on May 3, 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It uses a modified version of the Unreal engine and the Havok physics engine. Pariah received mixed reviews from critics.[1]
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Pariah holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Pariah launched on 3 May 2005, within three weeks of Psychonauts, Guild Wars, Jade Empire and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts, Guild Wars, Jade Empire, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

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When did Pariah come out?
Pariah was released on 3 May 2005 for Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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